9 ways you can make filming a ‘case sensitive’ interview easier!
An interview can be a minefield on a sensitive topic. You don’t want to say something thoughtless and disrupt your next article’s subject, but you need all the details you can get to make sure you have something to write on. Our production team went through an experience of this with their production for Telly; […]
The Timeless Big Lebowski
One might say that cinema is constantly progressing, true watching something filmed recently and comparing it to something filmed 20 years ago, you will notice a marked difference in picture and sound quality. Technology has reached a point where CGI can mimic live action, case in point The Lion King (2019) and Avatar (2009); however […]
Hollywood & The Civil Rights Movement
Movies can shape public opinion and in many ways are an indicator of the Status quo. They can be used to sway sympathies, sometimes in the wrong direction. The historic film The Birth of a Nation (1915) which I’ll be discussing in this blogpost went a long way in convincing people to join the racist […]
5 titles to binge watch on telly during the lock-down
Have you been scrolling through a list of movies or shows and been unable to make up your mind? You’re staying at home and you need a distraction… and we get it! To make this a lot easier, here’s a list of what we highly recommend you to watch. After the End This 2016 series […]
How ‘Zoom’ made shooting an ad possible during the pandemic
’3, 2, 1, action!’ was heard hundreds of kilometers away from where the director was. It was a full lock-down here in Kuwait, there was no way to shoot a commercial and impossible to travel. Thanks to technologies like Zoom, the video conferencing app that helped bridge many people during this pandemic. We never thought […]
Must See Films to Learn more about Leadership
As an organization, Cinemagic has and always supports the global community of film-makers. People have been globally started using films even in classrooms for educational purposes. This expands the field of the film industry itself pushing it further from just a source of entertainment to becoming a source of education. And we’re not talking about […]
Kuwait Vision 2035
Today I take you on a journey to witness how the behind the scenes of ‘Kuwait 2035’ were brought to life. The task of the director was to realise the idea of 2035. This he did, right from the opening scenes of the video as we are cleverly welcomed into the history and the future […]
Casting for the right role
Casting is a very important process that helps the director to choose the right actor or actress for a film but it can be a challenging process. It’s very hard to find the perfect person for an original character. It’s quite normal to hold a casting session and have many talented actors come in and […]
What does a film director do?
Confused about what is difference between a Producer and a Film Director? Read on … The film director is the person who is in charge of making sure that every component of a movie runs smoothly. Generally, the director works on a movie from its conception stage to its delivery stage. How the scene is […]
iPHONE vs. ALEXA Comparison
Watch now our iPhone vs. Arri Alexa video on YouTube. The iPhone X has a pretty powerful camera but how does it match up with one of the industries favorites, the ‘Arri Alexa’?? With some post-processing work, and if you know what you’re doing, you can get some decent footage from the iPhone. That being […]