Tag Archives: filmmaking

Rhetorica Update: Branding, Filmmaking, and Social Media

I think I mentioned earlier that I’ve been working on branding. I’m too lazy right now to go back and look 🙂 In any case, I’m likely to publish a lot of these things in the coming weeks because I’m … Continue reading

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Fun With AI: A Matter of Visual Style: Part 2

I tried a bit different approach on part two of my examination of what ChatGPT can create regarding visual style in documentary film. I asked it to give me some tips on how to incorporate the “decisive moment” to documentary … Continue reading

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Fun With AI: A Matter of Visual Style, Part 1

I’ve written before about my admiration for the visual style of Terrence Malick and its influence on my non-fiction cinematography. I wondered: Can ChatGPT give me some tips about that? So I asked a “practical” question: How can I adapt … Continue reading

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Brave New AI World

I don’t remember the first time I told my students that we live in an age in which seeing (also hearing) is no longer believing. I used to present a unit in my media ethics class examining photo manipulation through … Continue reading

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Posted My First Reel on YouTube

A reel is something like a video portfolio. I recently published my first one on my YouTube channel. 

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