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Letter From the President
Letter From the President: The [Virtual] Production Future
“While the technology of VP is recent, the idea of in-camera compositing is as old as moviemaking itself.”
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Shot Craft
Analyzing a Script
Many cinematographers will testify that they try not to visualize the script on the first read. Instead, they will distill the script to the essence or heart of the story.
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TheFilmBook
Nomadland Director Chloé Zhao - Extended Interview
In this in-depth interview, director Chloé Zhao discusses Terrence Malick, her filmmaking approach, people playing themselves, the themes of
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Letter From the President
Letter From the President: One Big Planet
“It is worth noting that the ASC is an international organization with members in dozens of countries, as well as the first such organization devoted to cinematography.”
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TheFilmBook
Nomadland - New Naturalism - Light as Nature
Nomadland by director Chloé Zhao, with cinematography by Joshua James Richards, as an extension of New Naturalism, a movement first created by Terrence Malick and Emmanuel Lubezki
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Letter From the President
Letter From the President: Creation of the Image
“Much will change as a result of 2020. Some things will disappear, others will return modified by lessons learned during these past months: different, but better.”
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Letter From the President
President’s Desk: Documentaries Are Stranger Than Fiction
With the “creative non-fiction” of documentaries to light the way, telling us stories about ourselves, some that may be hard to watch, we learn so much about our world, and how to live in it together.
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Parallax View
New Site Pays Tribute to Doc Pioneer Leo Hurwitz
He went on to make singularly important contributions to the development of other film and television techniques through the 1990s, helping to invent multi-camera TV and what came to be called cinéma vérité.