Digital Orchard, industry-leader in film and digital workflow services, have launched their new Access 2025: DIT & Video Trainees, run through their Orchard Onset department. Digital Orchard is excited to announce their brand-new 2025 DIT & Video Trainees: Cleopatra Southcombe,…
Creative Cities Convention has announced its first ever Skills Summit, created to provide freelancers and emerging talent with the expertise to meet the challenges facing the industry. The Skills Summit will run on 7 and 8 May, alongside the main conference in Bradford. Day…
Behind the screen: navigating downturn VFX experts highlight investments in training and advocate for diversifying content creation to ensure industry longevity. During industry downturns, focus naturally narrows with the expectation of eventual recovery. However, this outlook predominantly favours established professionals,…
Get with the programme Be it through image editing, 3D models, or just written notes, software is a crucial tool with which cinematographers communicate their creative intentions. “Software has become a completely vital part of my prep and shoot today,”…
Igniting a spark Education is a key tenet of the British Society of Cinematographers and its recent workshop programme, in collaboration with London Screen Academy, gave underrepresented communities a hands-on – and in some cases life-changing – insight into the…
INSPIRING FILMMAKERS OF THE FUTURE MetFilm School is a leading film and television media school with an approach to learning embedded in the industry. When writer-director Nikyatu Jusu’s psychological horror Nanny won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance last year,…
To accommodate the multi-dimensional needs of DPs, Shift 4 Cine is the latest innovative offering from one of London’s longest-running, independent rental houses. It’s been a project 10 years in the making, gathering an experienced team, collecting top-of-the-range tools, to…
Find out how a free online resource developed by a dedicated London-based cinematographer can help with selecting the ideal lenses and filters for your next project. The Lens & Filter Library (LFL) is an online tool providing a database of…
A rental company will welcome you with open arms when you’re looking for an aesthetic for a shoot. But in the pursuit of the right lens you’ll enter a vital creative partnership Ultimately light, or the lack of it, is…
SAFE SPACE The launch of the Mark Milsome Foundation’s Film and TV Online Safety Passport Course has reignited vigorous debate around on-set health and safety. “At the inquest into Mark’s death, the coroner concluded that on that set, the risk…
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