Recent Blog Posts in 2008

  • Love's Labor Jam: Planning the Jam

    Posted By Randy DeFord

    By the weekend, I can see about 8 chapters to this doc. I have 4 started. The first in just an intro. We shot scenes of driving through the city of Berea, specifically, Berea College. Since the founders of the Love's Labor Jam are Berea College ... Continue reading "Love's Labor Jam: Planning the Jam" »

    November 1, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • Love's Labor Jam - Sifting

    Posted By Randy DeFord

    This weekend, I was able to hit the halfway mark, as far as total hours of captured footage. One of the things that struck me the most was the range of poor to great shots we obtained. It's a good exercise in humilty to go back and view something ... Continue reading "Love's Labor Jam - Sifting" »

    September 28, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • IBC 2008 - Day oo4

    Posted By David Cox

    Day #4 - only one short day to go. Conventions always end up being reduced to a core set of topics and buzz words. This year's main talking point is "Stereoscopic". For those that have been out of the galaxy for the last year, this means the ... Continue reading "IBC 2008 - Day oo4" »

    September 16, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • IBC 2008 - Day 3

    Posted By David Cox

    Day 3 at IBC was reasonably productive - lots of back-to-back meetings. It seems that however far apart they get placed, I'm always late for the next one! Red have finally released an SDK so that other developers can support the Red One camera files ... Continue reading "IBC 2008 - Day 3" »

    September 15, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • IBC 2008 - Day 2

    Posted By Randi Altman

    Avid, which was famously absent from NAB this year, is here with a smallish (compared to what they used to do at NAB in the past) booth and hinting that will also be the case at NAB 2009. "It's important for us to be here," said Avid VP/GM Kirk ... Continue reading "IBC 2008 - Day 2" »

    September 14, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • IBC 08. Day #2

    Posted By David Cox

    I'm back from the first full day at the show. Well, I say full day - the truth is that after the gathering I mentioned last night at The Old Bell, my head wasn't quite ready for IBC first thing, or indeed for the first couple of hours it was ... Continue reading "IBC 08. Day #2" »

    September 13, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • IBC 08. Day #1

    Posted By David Cox

    Another year – another IBC. This is at least my twelfth in a row, so there is something wonderfully familiar about it all. The first day of the show is a half day, so since I used it mainly just to drop by and say hello to a few people, there's not ... Continue reading "IBC 08. Day #1" »

    September 13, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • IBC 2008

    Posted By Randi Altman

    It's an hour and a half into IBC 2008 and I am already a bit queasy. It's got nothing to do with the tone of the show at all but has everything to do with a demo I got over at the Iridas booth. Iridas's Patrick Palmer was emphasizing the importance ... Continue reading "IBC 2008" »

    September 12, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • Love's Labor Jam - Post Work

    Posted By Randy DeFord

    All 12 tapes of the Jam have now been sorted. One of the more difficult things with a doc is deciding which memory will not make the grade. It's all part of taking the personal side out and making sure you compile a story that makes the best of the ... Continue reading "Love's Labor Jam - Post Work" »

    September 10, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • Love's Labor Jam - Post Work

    Posted By Randy DeFord

    Earlier this week, you read my partner Adam Shephard's entries about shooting Love's Labor Jam. Now the job begins of cataloging the nearly 12 hours of DVD tapes for content. We did not capture to hard disc, but just to the native Mini DV media. I ... Continue reading "Love's Labor Jam - Post Work" »

    September 6, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • Love's Labor Jam

    Posted By Billy

    Our work began Sunday morning at 9:30am The scope of “Love's Labor Jam” really made it ideal for capturing on film. Because it was a volunteer effort handled by old friends, something as simple as the arrival of a family or the preparation of food ... Continue reading "Love's Labor Jam" »

    September 2, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • Love's Labor jam - Day 1

    Posted By Billy

    Just to show that nothing ever goes as planned, we ended up at the event without the net connection we thought we'd have. So, no blogging from the site. It was probably just as well though. With everything else we did, blogging would have been a ... Continue reading "Love's Labor jam - Day 1" »

    September 1, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • Shooting Love's Labor Jam

    Posted By Billy

    The night before I have to travel for a shoot is always interesting. I run around like a madman making sure that I remember everything. Once I'm positive I've taken care of business, I collapse, content in the knowledge that I won't be forgetting ... Continue reading "Shooting Love's Labor Jam" »

    August 29, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • Love's Labor Jam: Pre-Travel Prep

    Posted By Billy

    The night before I have to travel for a shoot is always interesting. I run around like a madman making sure that I remember everything. Once I'm positive I've taken care of business, I collapse, content in the knowledge that I won't be forgetting ... Continue reading "Love's Labor Jam: Pre-Travel Prep" »

    August 29, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • Scott's Blog @ SIGGRAPH - Day 3

    Posted By Scott Sindorf

    Day 3 After leaving the conference floor yesterday, we ended up meeting for dinner with some old dear friends I had the pleasure to work with in the past. To me, this is one of my favorite aspects of SIGGRAPH, reconnecting with old acquaintances. ... Continue reading "Scott's Blog @ SIGGRAPH - Day 3" »

    August 14, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • Scott's Blog @ SIGGRAPH - Day 2

    Posted By Scott Sindorf

    SIGGRAPH Day 2 The Computer Animation Festival last night premiered “3D Screenings: A Visual Odyssey.” The idea behind this festival was to highlight the emerging technology for stereoscopic projection. Every audience member was given 3D glasses to ... Continue reading "Scott's Blog @ SIGGRAPH - Day 2" »

    August 12, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • Scott's Blog @ SIGGRAPH - Day 1

    Posted By Scott Sindorf

    I just arrived with my fellow compatriots from uvph at the Convention Center here in Los Angeles for another fun filled SIGGRAPH. It seems that L.A. is the favorite SIGGRAPH destination for cities. With the movie industry primarily located here in ... Continue reading "Scott's Blog @ SIGGRAPH - Day 1" »

    August 11, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • PHOTOS

    Posted By Erik Paulsen

    The above pic was taken in Prato Nevoso, Italy. Our production trailer is on the right, with the uplink truck in the middle and our mobile studio on the left. In the background is the ski area that hosted the finish for Stage 15 of the 2008 Tour de ... Continue reading "PHOTOS" »

    July 22, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • THE ALPS

    Posted By Erik Paulsen

    It's been a while since my last post. We've been traveling in South France and the drives have been long between finish lines for us, but now we've just completed our first big mountain stage which took us to Italy to Prato Nevoso for a day and then ... Continue reading "THE ALPS" »

    July 22, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • HAUTACAM

    Posted By Erik Paulsen

    The last few day have been great! Long ones, but all and all great. My Avid is rock solid for the most part and the Interplay is working well. That old DME I talked about earlier is getting some action as well. I saved off a couple of VFX for our EVS ... Continue reading "HAUTACAM" »

    July 14, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • THE FIRST WEEK OF THE TOUR

    Posted By Erik Paulsen

    The last few days have flown by! We have driven countless miles and the days are beginning to blend into one another. Our Avid set up is working nicely. We have had a few hiccups and tonight our Avid tech from Cap Cine will be replacing a fiber card ... Continue reading "THE FIRST WEEK OF THE TOUR" »

    July 10, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)

  • DAY 1

    Posted By Erik Paulsen

    Today was a rather quick set day at the finish line of stage 1 in Plumelec. Once all the trucks were parked and powered there was a lot of time spent stringing fiber cable from our Unity, which is in a support truck, over to my edit suite that is ... Continue reading "DAY 1" »

    July 8, 2008 | Permalink | Comments(0)