HOLLYWOOD — For the past 40 years, since his aptly-named 1971 feature debut Bleak Moments, British director Mike Leigh has amassed a body of work — including Happy-Go-Lucky, Vera Drake, All Or Nothing ...
January 3, 2011
LONDON — What if Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald, each armed with directing Oscars, entrusted shooting their new film to literally thousands of unknowns? And what if they also distributed hundreds of ...
CULVER CITY, CA — Veteran editor Michael Tronick and his editing team have taken on the task of helping director Michel Gondry bring the Green Hornet and his trusty sidekick Cato to the big screen. Wh ...
I’d like to begin this column with a hearty, Happy New Year! Let’s hope that 2011 finds more studios hosting more work in 2011. While we lost some great ones, most recently Asylum VFX, we have seen so ...
SeamBi has developed technology that enables brands to seamlessly integrate their product or message into finished television content. The technology is DVR-proof, and, unlike traditional spots, canno ...
The world of production and post is now radically different from five years ago. Back in the day, we had standard definition TV and film. You had Digi Beta and film cans. Now, thanks to the digital re ...
Every now and then one may come across a piece of software that is very useful and a lot fun to use. FrameForge Previz Studio 3 caught my eye because it seemed like an application I’d like to spend an ...
Most cinema pros make a life at a unique niche of the film pipeline process. For shooters, editors or VFX designers, the zone of artist responsibility does not usually bridge the entire workflow spect ...
January 5, 2011
Maybe it’s an illustration of that old saw, ‘Out of sight, out of mind,’ or maybe it’s just human nature to pay most attention to what’s right in front of us. Either way, the biggest number of Academy ...
January 4, 2011
The Ledge director Matthew Chapman on the PostDigital stage.
Waiting for Superman was mixed on Stage 6 on the Warner Bros. Post Production Sound campus in Hollywood.
With the wild success of HDSLR cameras from both Canon and Nikon, there is a renewed interest in editing H.264 media natively, using the video files that are transferred directly from the camera into ...
January 28, 2011
TORONTO — Wildlife filmmaker Adam Ravetch has spent two decades documenting the details of animals’ lives in the far corners of the earth. He is one of just a handful of filmmakers who have shot benea ...
SANTA MONICA - Comen VFX (www.comenvfx.com) served as the sole visual effects house for the feature film The Fighter, directed by David O. Russell. The film stars Mark Wahlberg as boxer “Irish” Micky ...
These days, the future of motion picture film is the subject of much debate throughout the global TV and movie industry. There are many commercial interests and technology issues to take into account. ...