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Top 5 Indie Film Making innovations of 2014: The argument over whether to shoot film or digital has barely ended but in the meantime the film industry continues to change rapidly. We thought it best to review and rate our top 5 most interesting technological changes, as we bid farewell to 2014. 5. The Pixelstick- Light painting is one of the most fun tricks you can do with any modern camera that lets you change exposure time (shutter speed). Pixelstick is a special LED light bar created by Brooklyn-based Bitbanger Labs, designed to let photographers create elaborate long exposure light paintings. The Pixelstick is an array of 200 addressable RGB LEDs. This means each LED can produce almost any colour, and each one can be instructed to flash on and off at a particular speed and colour sequence. With the right set of instructions, the LEDs can be used to mimic the pixels of a bitmapped image, so as the Pixelstick is moved through space, the LEDs effectively ‘draw’ the bitmap in midair and can be captured during a long exposure photograph. Pixelsticks potential is pretty amazing. Theres opportunity to use it not only to create psychedelic long exposures, but to stitch multiple shots together to create surreal stop-motion/time-lapse animations. https://vimeo/78163959 4. Hemingwrite - The Hemingwrite is the over-engineered typewriter for the 21st century. If youre a screenwriter wanting a new way to tackle that script, you might want to take a look at the Hemingwrite, an open-source digital typewriter that combines the old distraction-free writing experience of analog with the cloud-based efficiency of the digital age. As its website readily admits, the Hemingwrite is a modern-day word processor. It combines a compact mechanical-switch keyboard with a six-inch E Ink screen that shows you the time, the date, your words, and little else. Its internal storage will sync with Google Docs and Evernote. nofilmschool/2014/12/screenwriters-pared-down-writing-experience-hemingwrite-digital-typewriter 3. Came 8000 Gimbal - If you dont have $3K to spend on the DJI Ronin, but want a gimbal stabilizer that is both versatile and can handle the larger RED and Blackmagic Cinema Cameras, then take a look at the Came-8000. It can bear a maximum burden of about 5 Kg, sufficient for RED Epic, BMCC, Kinemini 4K or DSLR cameras with heavy lenses. The body is part aluminium, part plastic, the frame is aluminium and the motor covers are made of plastic. There is a 15mm rod mount under the camera plate, so you can mount a remote follow focus system. The camera plate and all 3 axis can be adjusted without any tools. This makes it possible to make small adjustments even on set. The whole body is designed not only to look very wild, but also to protect the motors, embed the cables and battery etc. Oddly enough, Came-TV doesnt provide many details about the Came-8000, however it was based on the 7800 and 7500. Priced at $2000 the product came out in mid-september. nofilmschool/2014/11/sub-2k-gimbal-stabilizer-your-red-epic-bmcc-came-8000-now-available 2. Aries BlackBird X10 aerial photography drone - DJI might be fast becoming the GoPro of flying cameras, but drones like the new Aries BlackBird X10 are going to keep things interesting for the category. Like DJIs Phantom Vision quadcopters, the BlackBird X10 has a built-in camera. In this case its a 16-megapixel one with an f2.8 lens with a 120-degree angle of view as well as a longer range, 6-axis gyro stabilization (the Vision only has one), and the ability to fly in light rain or snow.. You can use it for grabbing stills as well as 1080p video at 30 frames per second (25fps PAL). The Aries Blackbird X10 sports a massive 5300mAh lithium battery system that has been enhanced to maximize airtime, giving the quadcopter an impressive 25 minutes of flight time on one charge. Should the transmitter lose its connection with the X10, a return-to-home failsafe will kick in. Guided by GPS, the quadcopter will return to its approximate take-off spot and land on its own. The Aries BlackBird X10 is available to buy now and starts shipping on December 10. nofilmschool/2014/12/meet-adoramas-aries-blackbird-x10-quadcopter 1. Dolby Atmos- Dolby Atmos is a new technology developed by Dolby Laboratories that is said to add an unprecedented degree of realism to movie soundtracks. Dolby Atmos is an object based audio format that allows sound mixers to accurately define the specific location of an audio object in a 3 dimensional listening space. The first installation was in the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, for the premiere of Brave in June 2012. At the end of June 2014, Dolby Labs hardware partners announced that Dolby Atmos would soon be coming to home theaters. Dolby Atmos gives sound designers the ability to move the sound as background or foreground objects move on or off-screen, giving the resultant effects a more realistic feel. For example, in Transformers: Age of Extinction there is a scene where a gunfight is taking place. If you watch this film with Atmos, you can hear - not just see - the bullets whizzing past, and thudding into different parts of a wall. filmjournal/filmjournal/content_display/news-and-features/features/technology/e3iac6eb5ca4512e4afd02c72460e8d3dda A deserving mention because we love it so much: Go Pro Hero 4 The action camera market is expanding at blinding speed, and the best known name in this sector is GoPro The GoPro Hero4 Black delivers best-in-class video at resolutions up to 4K at 30fps or 1080p at 120fps. Wide assortment of mounting options from GoPro and third-party manufacturers. Battery life can feel painfully short and due to a redesign you cant use older batteries with the Hero4. No option for in-camera digital image stabilization and it still needs a housing to be waterproof. All in all the GoPro Hero4 Black brings a major step up in video performance and some useful improvements to the design and control interface too.
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