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On the eve of the final season of "True Blood", cinematographer David Klein, Asc -- who has shared his bloody duties on the show since 2011 with Evans Brown -- gave us an inside look at Bon Temps and its inhabitants: the live ones, dead and even the undead.For this seventh season, the production switched from tried-and-true Kodak film to almost-as-good-as-film Alexa, which Klein was not originally convinced was the "proper machine to shoot the final season of a show that had been on film since the beginning."Once Stephen Beres, Erik Hansen and Suny Behar at HBO developed a grain application that was more than just a simple overlay – the same grain over every part of the image – Klein's tune began to change. "They took actual film grain and applied it separately to the highlights, mid-tones and shadows separately" says Klein. "It's the first time I’ve been...

Why Watch? A massive accident, contamination and the usual tropes are all here in this short from Stephen Beres, but it also pulls off a fresh take on the post-mini-apocalypse genre with a bit of sincerity and clarity. Built on a foundation of beautifully framed shots and smart editing, Last Light focuses on the sole inhabitant of a walled off safety zone — what he eats, what he thinks and how he keeps his mind stable enough to survive. Fortunately Beres found an actor in Jeremy Connors who was up to the simmering scrutiny of that role. Instead of a wholesale reinvention of the nuclear wheel, it’s an excellent execution of a lonely idea. An exploration of what keeps us going, what makes us smile in the darkness and what keeps us up at night. What Will It Cost? A little over 5 minutes A New Short Film Every Weekday...