Help me re-find this irreverent filmmaking tutorial site?

November 5, 2009 4:04 PM

I'm trying to re-find an irreverent filmmaking tutorial-video site I never bookmarked. In one memorable video, to show how a camera captures photons, they dropped a hundred tennis balls and tried to catch them in a plastic bucket. Anyone seen this?

Also, I seem to remember them having:

- a cool Day In The Life of a Location Scout video

- quite a few really helpful videos on lighting where they hung china balls in a bare white warehouse space and showed the effect of CTO on the windows

- a couple humorous tutorials where they recreated some famous movie scenes (comically badly) to illustrate some point of editing

- a video on editing where the often-silent comic foil of the presenter duo takes center stage with a well-written editing primer

- pretty irreverent spirit & design to the videos and site overall

I'm pretty bummed that I can't find it again and am having serious problems with my google fu here. "tennis balls photons bucket filmmaking video" just isn't doin' it. Help?

posted by scrowdid to media & arts (1 comment total)

Are you talking about exposureroom.com? They have a 'tutorials' section under 'content' tab. I could even found a tutorial when I search for "Day In the Life" on that website.
posted by tvjoshi at 2:33 PM on November 6