Hollywood Camera Work

07/24/2025

Causality 4.0 with Emotion/Tension Tracking is days away. Emotion Tracking helps you write long, emotionally convincing storylines by writing from the perspective of emotional changes. It dramatically improves anything in your story that changes slowly, from emotions, to objectives, character traits, discovery and much more.

03/28/2025

Netflix’s four-part crime drama Adolescence has taken the world by storm with its true to life drama and unique filming technique:
Each and every episode is filmed in one shot!

Cinematographer Matthew Lewis, turned to our app Shot Designer because he needed to plan how the camera moves through 3D space in coordination with the off-screen elements.

“...I tended to create “movement plans” splitting the piece into sections using Shot Designer and animating all the moves with keyframes.”

Well done!

02/12/2025

Who's ready for Emotion Tracking in Causality? This is a game-changing feature that helps you write stories that work, by ensuring that every beat moves a needle in the story. Emotion Tracking makes it easy to craft long storylines, and understand the long movements in the story. Set emotional targets so that beats have to build up certain emotions, track tension, and get a heatmap of the whole story. As you write.

06/26/2024

From the Hollywood Camera Work course Directing Actors:

https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/directing-actors.html

Become an Actor's Director with the definitive training in working with Actors and crafting strong, deep performances.

"All acting depends on the ability to allow. You need your body and your mind to be flexible so that you can have an impulsive response to what you experience. Impulsiveness is also what draws the audience in, because we don't know what will happen next and in some ways neither does the actor.

But allowing is difficult and that's why many actors take classes in order to unblock their emotions. Just before the take, you'll often see an actor take a second to create an empty space from where a response can happen organically. I like to call it: 'Starting from Zero'. It's the willingness to be in front of the camera and genuinely allow whatever comes up in you.

There's in fact a little bit of improv to all acting and many acting traditions have understood that the magic in acting undeniably is to be found in you responding impulsively."

- Per Holmes

https://youtu.be/2QOts5GMMAo?si=PgeW3hlQKfpa-4Pj

From the Hollywood Camera Work course Directing Actors -- www.hollywoodcamerawork.com. Become an Actor's Director with the definitive training in working wit...

05/30/2024

Win a Shot Designer License and a filmmaking book!

Join our friend, author, filmmaker and professor Pablo Costamagna's competition on Instagram!

Showcase your work in your Instagram feed -and you can become one of the 3 winners of a Shot Designer license and Pablo Costamagna's Spanish language book:

"Realización y Fotografía Audiovisual" - "Audiovisual Filmmaking and Photography".

You have until the 8th of June, 2024, to follow these steps:

🔹 Share Pablo's post (link below) on Instagram to your Instagram Story:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7fA75jvHo9/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

🔹 Create a scene in Shot Designer and share it to your feed. (Can be done in the free version of the app).

🔹 Tag and .costamagna.av

You'll be contacted if you are one of the winners.

05/29/2024

We're delving into the third of four techniques that shape Mad Max Fury Road, focusing on the intriguing play of pixels against each other. For instance, when an object moves in one direction and we track it on a different axis, the resulting effect becomes mesmerizing.

This technique allows for stunning visuals without the fear of boring the audience. Adding elements like fog, rain or reflections in the background can create intriguing visuals reminiscent of Kurosawa's technique of using rain or fog for added movement.

It's captivating and begs the question: Why isn't this done more often?

We're delving into the third of four techniques that shape Mad Max Fury Road, focusing on the intriguing play of pixels against each other. For instance, whe...

05/26/2024

We're looking forward to seeing you all again! 👋🏼

05/14/2024

It's such an honor and inspiration, participating in our Camera Work seminar. Nestled amidst rolling Tuscan hills, vineyards, and olive groves, the setting is idyllic.

Our instructor, Per Holmes, is working hard on translating his knowledge into practical skills, making them accessible to all participants. The enthusiasm and shared passion amongst this group of people are creating a truly remarkable atmosphere.
Thank you! 🙏

05/04/2024

LAST CALL to join our Camera Work seminar! We still have room for a few more.

This seminar is an updated version of Per’s previous master class that has been taught in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, as well as at Disney, Weta and ILM.

The goal is to become an ace at blocking scenes from scratch, and to do a good job even under pressure.

Copy and paste the link below for more information, including dates and prices.

https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/italy-camera-directing-may-2024.html

05/04/2024

LAST CALL to join our Camera Work seminar! We still have room for a few more.

This seminar is an updated version of Per’s previous master class that has been taught in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, as well as at Disney, Weta and ILM.

The goal is to become an ace at blocking scenes from scratch, and to do a good job even under pressure.

Click on the link below for more information, including dates and prices.

https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/italy-camera-directing-may-2024.html

04/15/2024

HOT CAMERA MOVES In 3 Body Problem - Part 2

This is part 2 of 2 episodes where we analyze some of the best camera work from the sci-fi series: 3 Body Problem.

In this video, we're looking at the techniques of Sliding Planes, Sympathetic Moves, a few Converges and an old-school Hand-Off.

This is part 2 of 2 episodes where we analyze some of the best camera work from the sci-fi series: 3 Body Problem. The next technique that we're going to loo...

04/08/2024

HOT CAMERA MOVES In 3 Body Problem - Part 1

This is part 1 of 2 episodes where we analyze some of the best camera work from the sci-fi series: 3 Body Problem.

There's almost no camera work in it, but what little there is, is spectacular.