Posted by pilamin on February 20th, 2008 in Episodes ·
The term “ideal lighting” may sound pretentious, but we’re not here to impose style. Lighting is ideal when it does not conflict with your finished product; because post-production will not fix everything. Don’t expect to Photoshop your movie as you would a photograph…
Posted by esotericsean on February 14th, 2008 in Episodes ·
Film buffs adore tracking shots the way the Guinness Book of World Records adore a hot dog eating champion. But tracking shots accomplish a lot more than meets the eye. As with Orson Welles’ B-movie masterpiece, “Touch of Evil,” the opening shot remains one of the most famous examples of a sustained tracking shot…
Posted by pilamin on February 6th, 2008 in Episodes ·
Unbelievable. Someone managed to steal one of our tapes and leak the footage online. The tape itself contains only leftover footage from the cutting room floor. It exposes the ugly side of Take Zer0, and the hurdles we go through to shoot an episode. We may as well post this embarrassing footage, just to confront the inevitable…
Posted by esotericsean on January 29th, 2008 in Episodes and Short Films ·
Sort of a long episode, as we decided to include Peter’s old short film. It’s about four minutes, and it’s not really a true short film so much that it documents a random night out…
Posted by pilamin on January 23rd, 2008 in Episodes ·
We’ve all heard of continuity, but what about discontinuity?
Discontinuity is the black sheep of the family. All the other shots flow together and behave like all good continuities should. But discontinuity picks fights, hangs out at MacDonald’s, and listens to rap music…
