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The Movie for Everyone
How Modern Technology Is Democratizing Filmmaking
Never before in history has it been so easy—and at the same time so affordable—to produce a movie as it is today. What was reserved just a few decades ago for major studios with multi-million-dollar budgets is now accessible to ambitious filmmakers, photographers, and creative storytellers with comparatively modest financial resources.
The digital revolution has fundamentally transformed film production. Camera technology, lenses, editing software, and scriptwriting tools are now available in a quality that was once accessible only to professional production companies.
Between photography and painting
Why individuality is crucial at a photography exhibition
These days, we are inundated with images on a daily basis. Social media, advertising and digital platforms mean that photographs are consumed in a matter of seconds and are often forgotten just as quickly. This is precisely why an important question arises at a photography exhibition: how do you get people to stop, look and remember the images?
For me, the answer lies in one’s own distinctive style
The myth of the „cinematic look" – Why it never existed
A buzzword meets film history reality
In today's world of digital moving images, the term ‘cinematic look’ has become an omnipresent buzzword. Social media tutorials promise to achieve it in five minutes, camera manufacturers advertise it, and content creators talk almost religiously about ways to make their videos ‘more cinematic’. The term serves as a collective term for everything that ‘somehow looks like cinema’: wide, soft, warm, dramatic.
But this modern usage is historically inaccurate. In its more than 120-year history, cinema has never had a uniform visual standard. On the contrary, it has been a constant laboratory of formats, techniques and aesthetics. Any attempt to define the ‘cinematic look’ as something fixed fails because of the enormous plurality of film history.
To understand why this look never existed, one must look to where today's ideas are often derived from: the technical diversity of formats in the 1950s and 60s, the era in which widescreen cinema was born – and yet was anything but homogeneous.
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Everything has a beginning...
...and everything starts with a decision, including this blog. Over the past few years, I have repeatedly had to fight against myths that course and workshop participants had from social media. It is precisely these myths that I will be addressing here. But I also want to include entertaining and instructive topics. It also helps me if I can always refer to a written source.
The condition known as Gear Acquisition Syndrome
Why a new camera doesn’t take better pictures
There are conditions that are medically recognised. And then there’s Gear Acquisition Syndrome, or GAS for short. Although it isn’t officially listed in medical textbooks, it seems to be surprisingly widespread amongst photographers.
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