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Whether it's Vine, Instagram Video or Keek the popularity of micro video is changing the social media landscape. Our panellists discuss the practicalities of creating these super short videos and how they can be used to enhance the social media activity around your production.

Good video that provides an introduction to colour theory, using colour in storytelling and colour symbolism within film

If you can find the article even better! "Bride DL, Crowell SE, Baucom BR, Kaufman EA, O'Connor CG, Skidmore CR, & Yaptangco M (2014). Testing the Effectiveness of 3D Film for Laboratory-Based Studies of Emotion. PLoS ONE, 9 (8) PMID: 25170878"

Book available online with your UoS network details

Today we'll cover the basics of color in modern digital filmmaking and some things you need to think about as you consider how to color your productions. There is a place in my heart for Black and White photography. But black and white, as beautiful and nuanced as it can be - is a world onto itself.

Human cognition involves many mental processes that are highly interrelated, such as perception, attention, memory, and thinking. An important and core cognitive process is memory, which is commonly associated with the storing and remembering of environmental information. An interesting issue in memory research is on ways to enhance memory performance, and thus, remembering of information.

Storytelling is so essential to the human condition, even our armpit-scratching ancestors knew how to spin a good yarn. But the ways we tell stories are constantly evolving, as new technologies spark new avenues of communication.

Trying to understand video color precision is, well, a confusing task. There are so many different terms floated around - 8-bit and 10-bit color are used to describe cameras, while software talks about 8 bits per channel, 16 bits per channel, and 32-bits per channel "floating point" color. What does

NOTE: This article has been updated, read the Feb 2014 update here - Updated Applying LUTs to Log footage. Working with Log material can be difficult at times, so we have put out a couple of different LUTs for use when using the Sony F3′s S-Log or Canon Log from the Canon C300.

A few youtube gems on color grading a David Fincher movie. About 5 minutes into the Panic Room featurette world class colorist Stephen Nakamura color corrects a few shots. The two part Se7en featurettes are all of Stephen colour correcting the end scene from the film.

Se7en is a dark crime-horror fantasy, written by Andrew Kevin Walker, directed by David Fincher with cinematography by Darius Khondji. The film was a success both commercially and critically. However due to the complexity of the photographic process, it is difficult to be certain that any of the home-video releases reflect the image seen in first run showings.

Careful skilled color grading can absolutely make or break your project. What's color grading, or 'color timing' ? It's the process of massaging the colors and intensities of video footage. It's a bit like photoshop for movies, except you're mostly working with color and brightness.

If 2013 was the year of the selfie, then 2014 is the year of the hyper-short film. Today, people don't just watch films in cinemas or living rooms. Instead, the term "movies" takes on a new connotation, as people download and consume on the move: on foot, or on the train, sometimes with just seconds to spare, as the content flows through their Facebook or Twitter streams on their mobile devices.

Very useful book when shooting in Raw. It offers a whole chapter on how to colour grade RAW in DaVinci Resolve. The book is available online through the UoS library and I have also added it to the Dropbox folder