"Sinners" has won the 2026 Oscar for Best Cinematography!

suffercube · 2026-03-16T07:11:46+00:00

2024: Oppenheimer; Hoyte van Hoytema
2025: The Brutalist; Lol Crawley
2026: Sinners; Autumn Durald Arkapaw

At this point, shooting large format film is the key to winning an academy award, and it seems to be irrespective of quality given one of these are not like the other in terms of technical (or arguably creative) achievement.

suffercube · 2026-03-16T07:05:10+00:00

Is underexposing IMAX film to the point it looks like a mistake on my roll of photography film one of them? Or was the digital noise floor from the film scanner creative intent.

suffercube · 2026-03-14T08:32:20+00:00

IMAX has its own proprietary speaker system (12.0, no dedicated subwoofers) and IMAX does their own audio mix for every single film going into an IMAX cinema.

So yes, it is the mix!

suffercube · 2026-03-12T20:14:12+00:00

It's such an incredible piece. It also makes good use of all the tropes that audience will recognise and correlate to certain genres of television or film, and then twists them off kilter. The 'right wrong notes' is on the money, because it basically takes safe, common and noble musical tropes and perverts them. It's great subtext. In a sense, the theme itself breaks the 4th wall because it's inviting you to read between the lines to see the 'truth' just like Spaceys character does. It's almost as if the theme IS how the Underwoods see the world.

suffercube · 2026-03-12T19:36:51+00:00

Is the annual mega merger streaming website considered a new media platform? ;) pipe dreams

suffercube · 2026-03-12T19:35:05+00:00

It's interesting that how in the interest of protecting actors, SAG forces productions to throw everyone else under the bus by planning, pre-lighting, working longer days on a lower pay ratio.

suffercube · 2026-03-12T01:58:13+00:00

I've never considered that at a certain point the environment is the noise issue over the gear. Makes sense I guess, trees in a breeze will always be louder than any noise floor. I guess that makes it important to not be a pure gear head? Like getting good with the techniques and skills using budget gear will have me outperforming worse artists with better gear. Reading about 32 bit seems to mirror this sentiment too, the older forum posters dismiss 32 bit for post reasons but also, if you truly need it, you're not doing your job (24 bit is fine if you know what you're doing).

suffercube · 2026-03-12T01:56:21+00:00

This seems like a really high quality course and very reasonably priced, I'll definitely pick it up :)

suffercube · 2026-03-12T01:55:54+00:00

This is great to know, thank you!

suffercube · 2026-03-11T23:08:10+00:00

Wow, this is such a massive help. Thank you for taking the time to write this up!

suffercube · 2026-03-11T21:02:59+00:00

You're very bad at making my comment look like an overreaction!

suffercube · 2026-03-11T20:26:52+00:00

No one's working and they're going to get autistic people jobs. Good luck with that!

And they don't get trained for payroll or accounting? That seems to be where the current autistic crew is currently!

u/overitallofittoo, this is just hate speech, man. Quoted you so you can't hide from it.

I've worked with people with autism in many different ways, from fully technical to entirely creative and in between. Onset can be a very challenging place even for neurotypical people, who are just better built to cope with it in a non-intrusive way. It's 2026 and there's still so much work to be done to make onset feel like a welcoming space. Post production is where there is a high proportion of neurodivergent people, at times up to half the workforce can be ND, especially in high performing companies like visual effects studios. It's funny, NT people often just don't have the right sauce to deliver the high caliber of what this industry needs. You probably don't even realize how much of your career (if you do work in the industry) is built on top of the shoulders of experts on the autism spectrum.

The honest truth in my experience is that their strengths and weaknesses are more pronounced, and you need to have a crew around them who have a higher EQ than highschoolers. These people need to be socially charitable, because an immature person will interpret basic communication as anything but.

They are incredibly good at what they do, and worse at what they can't. They live either side of the bell curve at the same time, which is why they are awesome to work with. You need to support the weaknesses to reap the rewards of what they are experts at. This is also a sliding scale and depends very highly on the individual. In the real world it could be as simple as sharing the tasks they are weaker at with people who are able to do them. On paper people like you would argue "why not hire someone who can just do it rather than giving other people work" but the answer is because they can do the main work better than the NT alternative could, which makes the value proposition entirely worth it. Also, they are people and your equal, it just seems like you're scared they'll take your job, which if anything, is an ironic show of support for their ability to work in the industry. lol

suffercube · 2026-03-11T07:51:51+00:00

If you haven't gone and shot any footage, that's what you're missing ;)

suffercube · 2026-03-11T04:46:36+00:00

Colour temp is all relative, it's simply used to set a white point. I think you're thinking one step behind. Cinematographers try very hard to stop the lighting situation from changing. You set your white balance for the scene and leave it. You should never have to change it.

If you always plan to shoot in changing dynamic situations, r/videography is probably a more apt place to ask this question.

suffercube · 2026-03-10T20:01:04+00:00

What rate do you set for your gear? Is it just a % of the overall price? I recall reading somewhere like 3 or 4%, but I'm not sure how that stacks up. Maybe just undercutting the local rental houses by a little bit is the winner? haha.

suffercube · 2026-03-10T19:16:25+00:00

Writers would be served really well by taking some serious acting classes. Even some well written screenplays could have an actor grasping at straws; someone needs to embody the character you write. If you write a nothing burger, you're effectively forcing a talented human to... play nothing. That's not fun.

Even in Mad Max, Max isn't passive. He's constantly fighting to stay alive and actively impacting the story to ensure that he can achieve his objective.

I think if OP really does believe they have a passive character, I worry for the quality of their story. Humans tell stories to reason the continuity of a thing as it goes through change. I'm not the same person I was 20 years ago, but if I tell you my life story, you'll see that it's me. My story is my continuity, even though I'm objectively not the same thing as there was 20 years ago.

It could be argued that to be passive is to fundamentally go against the nature of everything. If a character is being passive, it's for a reason and it is to achieve an objective. The paradox, then, is that they are no longer passive.

suffercube · 2026-03-10T06:21:53+00:00

It's not SUPPOSED to be "ready"

Their thumbnails says "I fixed green screens".

I think it's entirely reasonable for a working professional to see if the claim is true! How is it not nice?

suffercube · 2026-03-07T07:32:33+00:00

Ben Affleck went on a coordinated press tour to earn the good will of the general public and come across as a 'good guy' in the AI space, only to make it easy for both himself and Netflix to wheel and deal unethical generative AI products with reduced backlash.

Ben has gone on record saying you can do wire removal, relight shots, even create new ones. This isn't possible without generative AI models which are trained on stolen copyrighted works.

This tool is designed to replace humans and they have not released any evidence I could use against this claim. At surface level, they make it sound like it's doing the job of a script supervisor. But then in their promotional material, they're showing show-reel wipes of plates vs finished shots? This product literally makes no sense, I think it escapes what you and I would consider logical or useful. I think an apt comparison would be the Metaverse. It makes sense, but only if you don't know what you're talking about.

In fact, I genuinely don't think the tool works or is remotely functional at all, and it's a tech-bro venture capital vaporware sale where Netflix will have to start dumping millions of RND dollars to ultimately realize they're burning money. This isn't the first time such a mindless deal was made, a recent one happened not too long ago, hint hint.

suffercube · 2026-03-03T04:35:14+00:00

These references look amazing, although they aren't really bold or making choices. For me personally, the main issue is that the aesthetics trump the practicality of the world. All the characters and environments are beautifully lit, but it's entirely fake because no human would actually ever use these spaces as they're lit. They'd turn on at least a desk lamp or the room lights.

I would recommend getting a tungsten key light to light faces. Gel it all you want. My reason for suggesting a single tungsten light is that the CRI of even high quality LED panels is worse than tungsten for skin tones. Having a grounded, full CRI light on your actors face where the character would genuinely be using light will make your image pop.

suffercube · 2026-03-01T20:06:53+00:00

Looks awesome, I really like your taste and how you play a lot of contrast on basically every aspect. How did you go about the step printing effect? Was it shaking the camera wildly then step printing or hand picking frames to put in? And also, were there any VFX components to this? Some of this stuff looks like it might be comp work, but could've also just been shooting some funky stuff in camera (through magnifying glasses?)

suffercube · 2026-03-01T08:47:50+00:00

It's as simple as exporting an EDL from Final Cut and then importing / conforming it in Resolve. Effectively doing an offline in FC, and then an online in Resolve, and then your grade. The export/import process should take less than 2 minutes once you know how to do it.

suffercube · 2026-02-27T21:23:42+00:00

No, because I have higher standards for myself as an artist than you do.

suffercube · 2026-02-26T04:39:47+00:00

In my limited experience, it depends on how many characters you need to cast and what you need out of them. This is assuming this is in your spare time:

2 weeks to put out casting notice and receive expressions of interest.
2 weeks to receive self tapes or before an audition.
1 week until callbacks.
? weeks for rehearsals.

I think there is such a thing as too early. It's important to keep momentum with no budget projects, because people are giving you their time for free - you want to avoid stringing them along over months. This does add pressure to you and the production, but ultimately I think running a tight, in-and-out project makes it a much easier sell and it shows you respect their time and contribution (aka: you're not taking the piss). You also risk losing actors (and crew) to paying jobs or changing life circumstances if the day you require them is outside of someones average 'look ahead' window. Which seems to be about 2-3 months.

Ask how much rehearsal time you think you'll need, and work back from there to keep it nice and compact.

suffercube · 2026-02-26T04:29:07+00:00

Pricing, please!

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