As most might know the finale of “House” season six was shot on the Canon 5DMarkII. Philip Bloom (DP, Director and DSLR Expert) interviewed Greg Yaitanes, director of the episode, about working on a show this popular with the 5D.
You really should follow both of them on Twitter: Philip Bloom, Greg Yaitanes.
You can find the interview here: In depth interview with Greg Yaitanes, Executive Producer and Director of “House” Season Finale shot on Canon 5DmkII.
Since it’s an hour long i thought i’d sum up the – in my opinion – most interesting parts of the interview. I don’t claim that this summary contains every detail of the interview, but i think i captured the essence.
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It´s no big news that movies heavily rely on the internet for marketing, i´d say it´s the most important marketing instrument by far.
Facebook, Twitter and Co have become a basic instrument, but what about movie websites?
Really well designed movie websites are nothing new either, but there are some examples that underline the theme so well and are by far more than just a website about a movie – they carry the world and theme of a movie a lot further and serve as an extension and not just merely present some information.
Smashing Magazine compiled a great list of movie websites. Not a list exactly, they tried to answer the question “What if Oscars were given to movie websites”.
It´s a great showcase of incredibly well designed websites, read the full article here.
Over the past i had the dilemma of maintaining two different websites, a personal blog and my professional appearance as director.
All my infos where either duplicated or spread between the two, that is no more.
From now on this will be my sole website, merging www.sokolar.com and www.misofilm.com.
The old domains will still be active and point to this new one. Also my email addresses will still work, but my main address will be miso@michaelsokolar.com.
The shooting of my latest short movie A Place of Peace wrapped almost three weeks ago, and finally i found some time to drop some lines about the production.
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