Category Archives: Tech Talk Ernie Malik (via IMDB) is a highly regarded film publicist. He has worked on major motion picture projects including the Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys and more recently the Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Green Lantern. I had the pleasure of being introduced to Ernie while…  By now you’ve read Tech Talk 27 on planning for your specials publicity shoot. In this article I’m going to talk about my approach to the shoot session. The shoot itself is in my experience lots of fun, but to be entirely honest stressful too, even with the best of preparation. I think the real…  A specials shoot is a publicity shoot for a film or TV show that is specifically to capture promotional stills. Promotional stills are integral press and publicity resources and are usually shot in a studio environment with the key cast. On high profile film productions “Specials” photographers are often iconic photographers such as Annie Leibovitz…  The sound blimp is the quintessential production stills photographer’s tool. It is a sound proof enclosure to make the stills camera almost entirely silent. This device means that a photographer can shoot during takes without his or her shutter sound being picked up by the sensitive microphones used by sound recordists. Sound blimps are also…  One of the biggest challenges for a stills photographer is proving our value to film makers. With increasingly tight budgets stills photographers are seen as a luxury rather than a necessity. I think part of the reason for this is that most film makers see the process like cooking a surprise dinner for your live… |
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