Browsing: Filmmaking

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The eighth annual Centre Film Festival, scheduled Nov. 2-8, includes animation, documentary, experimental and narrative options, feature-length films and shorts. The range of options offers a little bit of everything — and ideally something for everyone. Credit: Centre Film Festival. All Rights Reserved.

Imagine a production designer sketching a mechanical bird for a science-fiction film during a morning meeting. By the afternoon, the team had a three-dimensional prototype with textured metal feathers, articulated wings, and enough detail to evaluate how it might look under the film’s lighting. The model still needs artistic refinement, but the distance between an…

Remember in the 90s and 2000s when chick flicks wereat their peak? Films like “The Devil Wears Prada,” “Legally Blonde,” “Confessions of a Shopaholic” and more brought some fresh fun to the silver screen. This evolved in the 2010s with female-led movies such as “The Hunger Games” and “Little Women,”and TV shows like “Glow” and…

The actor admits critics have a moral point but argues the technology cannot be stopped

The Oscar-winning American director is working on a new European production at the age of 90, continuing a career spanning more than six decades.

Picking a story structure feels like an English-class exercise. For AI-generated film and episodic shorts, it is the decision that decides how many shots you can afford to get wrong.

Have you ever watched a Hollywood blockbuster and thought about how many people worked behind the camera to bring it to life?

After training hundreds of creators, the same failure point shows up before anyone opens a video model.

There is a loud, hysterical narrative out there that artificial intelligence is here to replace the screenwriter. Every doom-and-gloom headline wants you to believe a computer will magically spit out slop that studio execs will embrace over a human masterpiece with the push of a button, leaving creative minds out in the cold.