Sometime last week, we sat down to watch the movie Brick.  I had first heard about it on NPR and had forgotten about it until I saw it in my local movie rental store.  Since I’ve been working on my Dirty Secrets project, I’ve been reading a lot of noirish detective novels and watching a lot of noirish movies, so I was eager to see this one as well.  The idea of a noir mystery set in a high school seemed unusual; indeed, I was expecting something on the level of a farce.  But, even a good farce can reveal aspects of a genre, so I was all set.

I was so very wrong.

Brick isn’t a farce at all.  Indeed, it’s a solid entry into the genre.  To be clear, I have decided that I’d like to own this movie.  I don’t purchase movies lightly, since renting is so easy, so I consider this…

Last Saturday, I went to see Mel Gibson’s new movie Apocalypto with Crystal.

I did a chunk of reading on Mesoamerican Indians in 2006, both on Aztecs and Mayans, so I’d been looking forward to seeing this movie for quite some time.  Then I read Josh Gibbs’ review, which only increased my interest in this film.

But, having seen it, it’s taken me until today to be able to put my thoughts about the movie in order.  Was Apocalypto a good movie?  Uh, well, you see…

Continuing on in my filmic series, I want to talk about proper exposure, and how to acheive the most filmic look using video cameras. After all, yet another hallmark of film is the dynamic range, and the way film stock handles exposure.

Video’s range of exposure is no where near the range of film, and if you over expose something in video, it’s very difficult to recover from. The way video blows out when the exposure reaches over 100 ire is really quite nasty looking. So to get the most filmic look, you don’t want ANYTHING in your frame to be over exposed. This is a little hard to accomplish with…

Welcome to the year 2007.

Some exciting things happened here at MovingTruth.com in 2006! For one thing, we founded the website, I call that exciting. We are also excited that we have begun growing a user base, and are starting to get a little interaction. We have had many suggestions, and have taken many of them to heart.

We have also made major and minor improvements to the site, subtle fixes and layout changes. It’s been a lot of trial and error…

It is easy to come this site and see things and assume that this is it, but there is more! Registered members all recieve access to extra forum threads and technical articles. The additional forum threads include photo critiques where you as a member can post your photos and get constructive feed back while also critiquing other posted photos.  We have also included a film critique where you can get feed back concerning posted films, independent film, individual scenes, along with Christ centered critique about hollywood feature films and…

One of the keys to understanding film and video is to understand frame rates and how they work so in this post I am going to discuss frame rates as it relates to video versus film.

One of the hallmarks of film is that it is typically shot at a frame rate of 24fps progressive, whereas standard def video is shot at 30fps interlaced. Now I don’t know about you, but I hate the look of interlaced video, but it’s something we mostly have to live with. Before I go on, let me describe interlace and progressive. Interlace is the method whereby every other horizontal line is scanned in one frame, and in the next frame alternating to the lines not scanned in the first frame. This means that only half of your image is refreshed on any given…