CineMagic #05 (1980)

Gleaming Eyes for Stop-Motion

Slit-Scan On A Shoestring

Filmmaker John Cosentino of Warren , I'll, condudes his two· part artlde on his home · built aerlal·lmage optical printer with Instructions for creating a number of spedal·effects scenes like the one pictured here.

Filmmaker's Forum gives readers the opportunity to speak out on the problems and techniques of filmmakIng. Jack Immes of Appleton, WI, submits a dazzling e.ample of hIs special effects produced with a 50 · cent mirror tile. (See page 15.)

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Editor's 4 Bench _ __

Forced Widescreen Per1 6 The Ultimate spective _ Special ~

Aerial Image Optical

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Printer,

Part 2 _ __ Modeler Brick Price lends a bit of professional expertise to young

filmmakers.

Producers' Bulletin Board ;=;;::,

Widescreen advocate Tony Shapps describes methods and materials for filming in the panoramic

format.

Books _ Optical effects you can do in Super-8 with your home built printer.

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Books for filmmakers-valuable sources of information and techniques for the filmmaker.

Latest news o f our readers'

productions.

Electronic

Cinemagic Market33 place Classified advertising and announcements.

SFX _ _

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A regular department devoted to readers' comments about film -

making, their problems and solutions.

A survey of professional motioncontrol devices and suggestions for producing your own effects inexpensively.

Add mysterious glowing eye effects to your fantasy creatures.

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CINEMAGIC Wants You! hether you have just discovered CINEMAG1C for the first time or whether you have been a loyal subscriber since the beginning, CINEMAGIC wants to hear from you. It says on our logo that CINEMAGIC is your guide to fantastic filmmak ing. Certainly a guide to fantastic filmmaking has to include more than camera technique. In fact, many of you, C1NEMAGIc's readers, are one·man production teams. You write the script, build the set, scout the locations, design the special effects, direct the actors, paint the cels, build your own effects equipment . . . and operate the camera. Likewise, CINEMAGIC seeks to cover all phases of production far beyond the mere development of camera technique.

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Perhaps you are one of the lucky ones. You live in a community in which there are lots of filmmakers who love to create fantasy films. There are others with whom you can share your ideas, work out problems and techniques and gain in· sight and stimulation. But many of you (I know from your letters) aren't in touch with other filmmakers. You have found something more than just information in the pages of C1NEMAGlC, because you know that the articles are written by film· makers just like you and that you are noI. alone.

lllanaging Editor: Bob Woods

Editorial Contributors: John Cosentino Brick Price TonyShapps Kenneth Wal ker

Art Staff: Laura O'Brien NancyObar

Associate Publisher: Ira Friedman

Assistant Publl.her: Rita Eisenstein For Adwrtioing Inlom\l,lIon: Ira Friedman, RIUI Eisenstein

Consider: In your hands is the "Filmmakers' Forum," in which you are invIted to speak your mind about the problems of filmmaking in Siapout, Oklahoma, share a shortcut or special technique that you have found to be especially useful or just to ask for help from your fellow filmmakers. Or "Producers' Bulletin Board," which lets you announce to other filmmakers the nature of your current film project and allows you to see what the rest of the fantasy filmmaking com· munity around the world is up to. But the meat and potatoes of your magazine are the feature articles. Feature stories cover the whole world of production in fantasy filmmaking-everything from a dazzling title technique to casting creatures for stop·motion films to exotic makeup effects. These in·depth artides aren't written by John Dykstra o r Doug Trumbull. They are being written by you, C1NEMAG1C's readers. They are written by filmmakers who are as eager to share their own ideas and discoveries with you as they are to read oIIbout the ideas and discoveries of their fellow filmmakers. In taking time to document your work with stills, diagrams and explanatory text, you gain recognition for your work on a scale that would otherwise not be available to you.

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Aerial Image Optical Printer, Part II Using the Printer By JOHN COSENTINO

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irtuelly every sc:1~nce-fiction ran is familiar with the

"beaming-up" effect of the transporter used on Slar Trek, but not many ~Ie know exactly how

the effect was accomplished for TV. Now you can lIChleve the same effect for your own SF films with an inexpen. sive, homemade aerlal lmollge opti coIIl

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Multiple &po.ure JIIl.Hework Aerlallmagea I have made my own version of e Star Trek episode. My film is calle. You alS