New Yorker F. Gary Gray first made his name directing hit music videos for such artists as TLC, Cypress Hill, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Queen Latifah and Whitney Houston before helming his first feature film ...
August 10, 2015
The Last Ship, from executive producer Michael Bay, set sail on TNT in 2014 and continues its voyage in Season 2, taking viewers on one sea-bound adventure after another. Here, the crew of US naval de ...
Media formats grow larger and more complex with every incremental upgrade release of a camera or application. What options exist for production companies when it comes to getting work done, given this ...
August 31, 2015
Starz’s hit series Black Sails premiered in early 2014 and recently completed airing its second season. Set in the 1700s, during the golden age of piracy, the show fictionalizes real-life pirates, inc ...
Presented by ALT Systems: Colorfront (www.colorfront.com), the Academy and Emmy Award-winning developer of high-performance, on-set dailies and transcoding systems for motion pictures, high-end episod ...
August 19, 2015
Marvel’s DareDevil is the latest hit from Netflix and, just like the provider’s other shows, is being streamed online in 4K. The series stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer who, with his ...
As the motion picture and television industries begin to work with higher resolutions, such as 4K (4,096x2,160 pixel image raster), and UHD (Ultra High Definition 3,840x2,160 pixel image raster), and ...
August 14, 2015
COLUMBIA, MO — Mike Swittel recently provided sound design and mixing services for I Am One ( www.iamonecampaign.com ), a new short film that is part of an anti-bullying campaign that encourages high- ...
September 3, 2015
Modern Family has remained on the Television Academy’s Emmy nomination list since its premiere in 2009, recognized for and winning numerous awards as Outstanding Comedy Series. This year, among the AB ...
August 18, 2015
Filthy Look Films (www.filthylookfilms.com) might not be “dirty” as its namesake suggests, but it certainly is of-the-earth. Founder and director/cinematographer Mick Jones supplements this with his o ...
August 25, 2015
Michael Marinelli is a co-founder and heavily booked (bordering over-scheduled) mix engineer at NYC’s Union Square-based audio post boutique Sonic Union (www.sonicunion.com) with a repeat client list ...
August 13, 2015
Eleven Mixer Ben Freer originally comes from Manchester, England, but grew up in San Diego, CA. After earning his BA in Film, TV & Radio Production from Cal State Monterey, Freer returned to Engla ...
Practicality and family expectations led me to initially choose a very traditional major in the medical field — a common career within the Filipino community I come from. A friend in my English writin ...
August 12, 2015
I have to admit, there was never a master plan to get into post production. When I was a child, I wanted what every child dreams of: to be a rocket pilot. Everything I have learned, I’ve learned on th ...
LOS ANGELES – Ntropic (www.ntropic.com) colorist Trevor Durtschi worked closely with London Alley Entertainment director Colin Tilley, and DPs Rob Witt and Corey Jennings to create a dramatic black an ...
Madonna clearly just wants to have fun at a star-studded penthouse party in Bitch, I’m Madonna, her third single from the "Rebel Heart" album. Directed by Jonas Akerlund, with post production by MPC N ...
What could be more “fun” than Pitbull and Chris Brown riffing on '80s TV show Miami Vice in their newest music video, Fun, with ice cream-colored suits, fast cars, gorgeous girls, a speedboat, Art Dec ...
What role can impressionistic sound design have in documentary films? In this episode from Dolby Institute, sound designer/mixer Coll Anderson explains it’s all about “telling human stories.” Anderson ...
September 8, 2015
Saving the day is a big job for an insect-sized superhero. In creating the action for Marvel’s Ant-Man, director Peyton Reed and team used specialized techniques, including macrophotography, to depict ...
LONDON — Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation ups the ante in a major way with death-defying action atop an Airbus, along a motorway, at a theater and inside an underwater vault. Planning the movie’s un ...
Over two years ago, I reviewed the HP z820 Red Edition workstation. It was incredible, to say the least, and it made me rethink the possibilities in post production. With 4K becoming a serious contend ...