Not quite sure what to call this blog yet. "Motion picture" sounds old-fashioned, but maybe the making of moving pictures is where it all comes down.
Not so long ago, video was shot to tape, and "film" was shot to film. People producing film were a different group from people producing video, or--dare I say it--people producing video for the web. Video editing, not film editing, was done on computers. Now, much video is shot to disc and much film also is shot to disc. Now, most video editing, and most film editing is done on computers, whether the footage is shot to film, tape, or to hard drives.
And clients and managers want motion pictures to appear on web sites, Blu-ray discs, DVDs, and who-knows what. So, this is a blog about making and delivering moving pictures, regardless of capture medium.
Maybe, occasionally, we can get into the aesthetics, not just the techniques. That would be nice: a place to discuss visuals with people who also have a good eye.
Having recently completed a five-year stint as a technical writer on the Adobe Premiere Pro team, and a 14-year stint as the Editor-in-Chief of Videomaker Magazine I'm soaked with information about the tools, techniques, and aesthetics of motion-picture production. There is a fair number of sites and publishers already providing news and training material for this field. By no means would I try to replace their fine efforts. Rather, I thought I'd put up a blog as a place to aggregate their resources, and occasionally contribute a news item, product review, or tutorial of my own. I hope this to be a one-stop-shop for information about video production and post-production useful to anyone engaged in the craft, from noobie to pro. Until it gets there, this is the place I'll check often for news and new instruction. Subscribe, or check back once in a while to catch the latest from the news feeds or posts.
May all your pictures be moving.
--Stephen Muratore
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