Our 80th Annual Oscar Predictions
A shame that David Fincher’s Zodiac lucked out of last year’s Oscars, and managed to miss out on this year’s as well. However, I doubt it would’ve…
TZ27 – Ideal Lighting for Better Video
The term “ideal lighting” may sound pretentious, but we’re not here to impose style. Lighting is ideal when it does not conflict with your finished product; because…
TZ26 – Basics of Tracking Shots
Film buffs adore tracking shots the way the Guinness Book of World Records adore a hot dog eating champion. But tracking shots accomplish a lot more than meets…
TZ25 – The Cutting Room Floor
Unbelievable. Someone managed to steal one of our tapes and leak the footage online. The tape itself contains only leftover footage from the cutting room floor…
TZ24 – Practice Filmmaking + "AlKarMar" (Short Film)
Sort of a long episode, as we decided to include Peter’s old short film. It’s about four minutes, and it’s not really a true short film so much…
TZ23 – Discontinuity Editing
Discontinuity is the black sheep of the family. All the other shots flow together and behave like all good continuities should. But discontinuity picks fights…
Sean & Peter Just Saw: "Cloverfield"
For some trivia, the title (something we wondered about) comes from the name of the street where the Bad Robot production company resides…
There Will Be Blood
Five years since “Punch-Drunk Love,” Paul Thomas Anderson has returned with a loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s book, Oil!, and proves that…
TZ22 – Framing the Subject
Sean used to work at an Aaron Brothers, and so he should know all about framing. That’s half of what the episode is about…
