Writings on diverse topics dealing with media technology, the cinema industry and the future of moving image arts.
Mechanical I
Camera technology and our Visual Language
Machinima and the filmmakers virtual immersion
What is machinima and what bold future does it herald?
Poetry in Motion or Vertical Editing
An introduction to constructing meaning through video motion graphics and compositing.
Letting the digital pony have its head
The tools may have advanced into 21st century but has the creative culture changed with it?
Surround sound and the new spatial aesthetic
Psycho, Hitchcock and the Van Sant re-make.
The philosophy of the tools
Blaming the hammer for the problems of the digital house
Cinema Theory and Practice: the divide we dont need
More than any other art form Cinema has long suffered from an entrenched separation between Theory and Practice. And sadly it’s film scholars who are to blame.