Color temperature / white balancing : hot is cool and cool is hot!

I just want to cover the very, very basic theory of color temperature / white balance here. I feel like even just the most cursory look would have helped me a lot when I was first trying to figure out what the heck temperature meant in terms of light! It …

4K? 1080p? What does it all mean?

One of the most confusing basics of modern digital filmmaking is frame resolution. A digital frame is made up of tiny squares called pixels. Each of these squares displays a single color. Imagine you have an image of a cat displayed on your computer screen such that it fills your …