Ridley Scott is one of the supreme stylists of contemporary cinema as such oft-imitated and seminal works as Blade Runner, Alien and Thelma and Louise make abundantly clear. Now the three-time Oscar-n ...
December 9, 2014
Long before ABC’s fantasy-drama Once Upon a Time made its primetime debut, and blended the plots and storylines of many of literature’s most beloved fairy tales and characters, lived a musical by Step ...
FX has built a loyal fan base with its American Horror Story, which maintains the same core cast each season, yet completely changes its storyline. Now in Season 4, American Horror Story: Freak Show i ...
The release of Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate 2015 marks the swan song for Softimage. It remains a superlative combination of efficiency, smart design, tight integration and tools ahea ...
Editors and facilities are seeing an unparalleled demand for content worldwide. It’s coming from new media and new sources of business outside the traditional business models. Editors are able to do m ...
Immediately following her phone conversation with actress/director Angelina Jolie, Becky Sullivan started researching B-24 bombers. Jolie had just asked Sullivan to serve as the supervising sound edit ...
December 23, 2014
Lee Smith, ACE — Christopher Nolan’s longtime editor — likes to joke about how grueling it was to cut the director’s massively-layered and technically-complex space/science drama, Interstellar. He cla ...
December 15, 2014
NEW YORK — Technicolor-PostWorks, New York completed editorial conforming and final color grading for Disney’s new film, Into the Woods. The facility was selected, in part, because of New York State’s ...
Into The Woods is a complex and magical musical that puts a different twist on well-known and beloved fairy tale characters and stories. Bringing a Broadway musical to the screen is a huge task and so ...
Since starting Cap Gun Collective as a production company in early 2010 with director Alex Fendrich and producer Kaitlyn Parks, we’re proud of the success we’ve achieved. By virtue of a vision shared ...
December 16, 2014
NEW YORK — Cloud-based dailies review and approval workflows are increasingly being deployed in film and video production. This is particularly true with location shoots, where production companies ne ...
December 17, 2014
NEW YORK — Editorial house Northern Lights opened in 1995 and moved into its current space in 2001. Company partner David Gioiella recently took Post on a tour of the Manhattan facility, which offers ...
December 19, 2014
NEW YORK — Creative director/senior VFX supervisor Greg Anderson gave Post a tour of FuseFX’s new New York space on Broadway recently. The studio, which also has locations in Los Angeles and Vancouver ...
December 18, 2014
A look at three trends that are going to dominate 2015.
December 11, 2014
As competition continues to saturate the offline editorial sector, a critical ingredient for success as a creative editor is having knowledge and exposure to the innumerable tools available.
Over the past 30 plus years, HP has been privileged to be an active part of the media and entertainment industry. We have seen a lot of changes since our first oscillators were used for audio in Disne ...
December 12, 2014
Examining the trends in 2015 that will impact post professionals, I decided to start by taking a look back. When I was young, choosing a career in art was considered impractical, if not exceedingly ir ...
The biggest changes for us over the last year or two have been less about equipment, tools or techniques, and more about communication. Most of that is due to some ever-increasing familiarities that o ...
Forecasting trends in post production is similar to taking the trip from LA to Vegas by car. It seems like it should be a breezy, five-hour drive assisted by clear signage, but miss the I-15 and ...
LOS ANGELES — Charlie Iturriaga is a VFX supervisor with Ollin VFX (www.ollinvfx.com), which has locations in Los Angeles, Mexico and Vancouver. The studio has nearly 70 artists working across its thr ...
Our industry is undergoing an exciting and meaningful evolution. Target market segments are changing, with reapportionment of advertising dollars, more in-house production, and ever-tighter schedules. ...
December 24, 2014
As we look at forecasts for future movies, the vast majority of what we see are sequels and franchises. Some people may look at that as a bad thing, but I don’t see it as bad at all.
I believe we will see a continuance of trends that developed in 2014. To be competitive in post production, you have to be extremely flexible in the workflows you offer your clients. Although we may h ...
December 10, 2014
The tailing-out of motion picture film production provokes the question "What is the sine qua non of cinematic quality? Is it still film?” We left something behind when we transitioned from black-and- ...
January 2, 2015
Ultra HD (4K) has been around for years, but 2015 will finally hit a tipping point that will bring widespread adoption in the consumer market.
What an exciting time to be in this business. Budgets are getting tighter, production schedules are getting crazier, and competition is growing. The advertising, content and media businesses are all c ...