Film and Digital Media @ Messiah

Finally, someone has written explicitly on a prosumer-video website that shooting 24p video using inexpensive cameras (specifically the HV20 and Sony V1) isn’t ever going to look like film. It looks like a shuttery, jerky mess. Better to shoot at 60i (if you’ve got an HV20) or 30p (if you’ve got an HV30), […]

Recently the Village Voice ran an editorial piece written by playwright, screenwriter, and director, David Mamet. Mamet is perhaps the most significant dramatist in the American Theater in the past 30 years. Yes, I recognize the impact that Tony Kushner, August Wilson, Sam Shepard, Wendy Wasserstein and many others have had. But […]

One of the assignments we do in 16mm Film Production is an Ink Animation where students draw, paint or write directly on the surface of the 16 mm film. One of the most interesting effects comes from painting on the film with watercolors (or the use of water-soluble markers to imitate watercolors). However, […]