Let’s change the look in the lounge

Thanks to a 3D map-making technique the Mr Beam team has transformed a white-walled lounge into a projection room with the capacity to change the colours and even the textures of the walls, floor, ceiling and furniture. This technique allows you to visualise the various choices in real time. What takes your fancy?

The world in reverse

A short film by Ryan Jay and Alexander Shahmiri filmed in the streets of San Francisco. Here, strangely enough, life moves backwards.

Shark-back riding with GoPro

HD camera and video in one, the little GoPro keeps on producing surprising images. Here, under-water divers are being towed by sharks. So much for Spielberg and Jaws.

Lack of visual continuity

In cinema as in video, visual continuity is important in order to ensure that the action looks realistic. The team from Filmriot broach this topic.

LomoKino, between photo and film

Everyone knows the plastic Lomo cameras which produce retro-style images with analogue film. The LomoKino keeps the same look but it’s a 35mm movie camera with a crank handle generating films which are so slow that it barely ensures continuity of movement.

A famous Thai film director talks about this camera at Cannes. See too this page introducing the camera.

Animated Light painting

To make a video using Light Painting, the technique is simple: you have to ‘paint’ image by image, which requires a well-developed capacity for abstraction in order to achieve a minimum of continuity between the images…….