November/December 2022

  • 8-Dec-2022
    November/December 2022
    In This Issue:

    OUTLOOK 2023
    Pros from throughout the post production industry weigh in on trends and predictions for the year ahead

    EDITING
    Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
    Cutting Apple TV+’s latest documentary
    By Marc Loftus

    ANIMATION
    Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
    Creating seamless synergy between traditional stop-motion animation and cutting-edge VFX
    By Kendra Ruczak

    DIRECTOR’S CHAIR
    I Wanna Dance with Somebody’s Kasi Lemmons
    Celebrating and paying tribute to Whitney Houston
    By Iain Blair

    DIRECTORS SWOT
    Four feature film directors weigh in on post production's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities & threats
    By Iain Blair

    CAREERS
    Planet X founder Dennis Kleyn
    This creative’s on-set experience led to technology development 

    SOUNDTRACK
    Future proofing production music
    Six best practices for staying current & competitive
    By Jonathan Parks

    REVIEW
    Nugen Audio’s Halo Vision
    A suite of tools for monitoring surround & immersive audio projects
    By Erik Vlietinck 

Departments

  • <I>Falling For Christmas</I>: Editor Kristi Shimek
    Falling For Christmas: Editor Kristi Shimek

    Editor Kristi Shimek recently cut the Netflix holiday film Falling For Christmas, starring Lindsay Lohan and Chord Overstreet, which premiered on November 10th. She also edited the new Peacock series ...

    December 12, 2022

  • Business: Brompton marks a decade of improving LED performance
    Business: Brompton marks a decade of improving LED performance

    As Brompton Technology celebrates its first decade in business, it’s astonishing to reflect on how much the LED industry has evolved and expanded in that time.

    January 3, 2023

  • Business: Expecting the unexpected - and enjoying it
    Business: Expecting the unexpected - and enjoying it

    The last few years at Sonic Union have taught us that, just when you think you have a handle on things, something unexpected may happen. We make plans, and the universe laughs.

    December 21, 2022

  • Business: How a global pandemic inspired me to open my own studio
    Business: How a global pandemic inspired me to open my own studio

    Just like millions of people, the global pandemic opened my eyes and really put things into perspective for all areas of my life, especially when it came to my true life’s passions. In my previous rol ...

    December 22, 2022

  • Careers: Editor Clay Doggett
    Careers: Editor Clay Doggett

    NEW YORK CITY — Modern Post (https://modernpost.com) editor Clay Doggett took to the craft early on, picking up a camera as a teenager to shoot and edit skate videos, while also documenting friends an ...

    December 19, 2022

  • Careers: Mixer Ashley Simmons
    Careers: Mixer Ashley Simmons

    NEW YORK CITY — Black, queer female artist Ashley Simmons is making a name for herself as a mixer, having recently been promoted at audio post studio Sound Lounge (https://soundlounge.com). Simmons br ...

    December 19, 2022

  • Careers: Tips from a 20-year VFX veteran
    Careers: Tips from a 20-year VFX veteran

    For more than 20 years I have worked in the VFX and animation industry as a VFX compositor. My work in film, animation, television and commercials has taken me around the world and back again, working ...

    December 13, 2022

  • Careers: VFX supervisor Dennis Kleyn
    Careers: VFX supervisor Dennis Kleyn

    THE NETHERLANDS — Dennis Kleyn is the CEO of Dutch VFX studio Planet X, which he founded in 2004. In addition to overseeing day-to-day business and operations at the studio, he is also the co-founder ...

    December 19, 2022

  • Director's Chair: Kasi Lemmons — <I>I Wanna Dance with Somebody</I>
    Director's Chair: Kasi Lemmons — I Wanna Dance with Somebody

    I Wanna Dance with Somebody, the new biopic about the late superstar Whitney Houston from TriStar Pictures, is a powerful, no-holds-barred portrait of the complex and multifaceted woman behind the voi ...

    December 15, 2022

  • Editing: <I>Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me</I>
    Editing: Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me

    The Apple TV+ documentary Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me takes a deep and personal look into the life of the young actress and recording artist. Gomez got her start on Barney & Friends, and later ...

    December 9, 2022

Features

  • Guillermo del Toro’s <I>Pinocchio</I>
    Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

    Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro joined forces with Emmy Award-winning stop-motion veteran Mark Gustafson to direct a stunning new reimagining of Pinocchio, set in Mussolini-era Ital ...

    December 8, 2022

  • Outlook: Removing complexities in cloud migration
    Outlook: Removing complexities in cloud migration

    For all of its incredible technological progress, the M&E industry has historically been slow to change. In all fairness, that’s partially due to ongoing production cycles. No studio wants to make ...

    January 3, 2023

  • Outlook: Volumetric video becomes more accessible
    Outlook: Volumetric video becomes more accessible

    2023 is going to be a transformative year for media production. Traditional 2D media production will make the jump to become fully spatial, and once that happens, content creators will never look back ...

    January 3, 2023

Web Exclusives

  • Outlook: 'Pandemic post' workflows are here to stay
    Outlook: 'Pandemic post' workflows are here to stay

    The COVID pandemic beginning in 2019 was an international incident unlike anything experienced in a lifetime, impacting business across the spectrum. Entertainment, production and post were completely ...

    December 13, 2022

  • Outlook: 3D animation & design in 2023
    Outlook: 3D animation & design in 2023

    3D animation and design are everywhere. From big-budget VFX movies to advertising to social videos on our phones, the demand for animated content has been on a steady incline for many years now. The 3 ...

    January 3, 2023

  • Outlook: Balancing creativity and business
    Outlook: Balancing creativity and business

    The dynamic changes occurring throughout broadcast, media and entertainment are impacting every step of the production chain, including the post production process.

    December 23, 2022

  • Outlook: Craft, content & the camera
    Outlook: Craft, content & the camera

    I think we can all agree it is an exciting time for imaging and content creation. Never before in our history has such a volume of visual content been produced on such a continual basis. As we enter 2 ...

    December 21, 2022

  • Outlook: Creating a robust material interchange for next-gen media
    Outlook: Creating a robust material interchange for next-gen media

    As a longtime rendering engineer at the Lucasfilm Advanced Development Group (ADG), I’ve had the chance to work on shows across a wide variety of platforms and media, including The Mandalorian, The Lo ...

    December 12, 2022

  • Outlook: Digital marketing takes the lead
    Outlook: Digital marketing takes the lead

    As we head into 2023, the move from broadcast to digital marketing campaigns continues to accelerate. Traditional broadcast production budgets and media buys that made up the lion's share of advertisi ...

    December 8, 2022

  • Outlook: How cloud-based editing strengthens collaboration & creative workflows
    Outlook: How cloud-based editing strengthens collaboration & creative workflows

    When you work for a production company like Hometeam, with a global footprint, it’s essential to have an editorial roster of folks from all across the world to pair the best talent anywhere to a proje ...

    December 21, 2022

  • Outlook: How motion capture is changing film production
    Outlook: How motion capture is changing film production

    Motion capture has been a staple within the film industry for many years now. Significant advances in technology over the last two decades have enabled filmmakers to capture and translate an actor’s p ...

    December 13, 2022

  • Outlook: Keeping global production teams in-sync
    Outlook: Keeping global production teams in-sync

    To keep pace with consumer demand, the media and entertainment industry is becoming a more globalized business. Today’s film and television productions involve hundreds – or thousands – of creatives i ...

    January 5, 2023

  • Outlook: Keeping up with the demands of branded video content
    Outlook: Keeping up with the demands of branded video content

    As we near the end of 2022, it’s clear that internal workflow needs and client expectations for content have changed. In the world of commercial and e-commerce production, it is expected that it will ...

    December 8, 2022

  • Outlook: More specialists, less handoffs
    Outlook: More specialists, less handoffs

    Traditionally, when a project reaches a post house, the creative has moved from ideation to delivery through a contact list of specialized talent, changing hands multiple times throughout the process. ...

    December 13, 2022

  • Outlook: Overcoming cloud workflows' biggest hurdle
    Outlook: Overcoming cloud workflows' biggest hurdle

    In the summer of the year 2000, three disruptive innovations entered the market, initiating a thirst for early adoption among myself and my schoolmates: DVCam, Firewire and Apple Final Cut Pro. Togeth ...

    December 12, 2022

  • Outlook: Post workflows in the sky
    Outlook: Post workflows in the sky

    The boundaries of the traditional edit room continue to crumble. The hybrid world we all work and play in now has become more of a permanent reality. Gone are the days of having 10 edit rooms and thre ...

    December 13, 2022

  • Outlook: Realtime inline color transforms are reimagining HDR workflows
    Outlook: Realtime inline color transforms are reimagining HDR workflows

    A surge in demand for HDR content in recent years has resulted in more complex creative workflows from production through to post, as well as an uptick in the number of deliverables required for many ...

    December 8, 2022

  • Outlook: Realtime on-ramps to entertainment
    Outlook: Realtime on-ramps to entertainment

    Over the past few years we’ve witnessed one of the most significant advancements in the filmmaking process – realtime technology. Through hardware and software technologies, we’ve finally gotten to th ...

    December 13, 2022

  • Outlook: The rise of content lakes, AI & more
    Outlook: The rise of content lakes, AI & more

    The notion of ‘data lakes’ is often heard – a massive data repository that an organization can tap into for review and analysis. Object storage has been a popular choice for this application – it’s a ...

    December 21, 2022

  • Outlook: Three trends driving workflow efficiency
    Outlook: Three trends driving workflow efficiency

    Despite having access to re-opened movie theaters in 2022, we observed a proliferation in the creation of episodic television and streaming content, and looking into the future, one thing is crystal c ...

    December 8, 2022

  • Outlook: What will a post studio look like in 2023?
    Outlook: What will a post studio look like in 2023?

    When it comes to hybrid work, it’s become crystal clear no one has the answer about the “best” and “most effective” way to approach bringing people back into the office. For the kind of creative colla ...

    January 3, 2023

Reviews

  • Review: Orchestral Tools' Metropolis Ark Ø
    Review: Orchestral Tools' Metropolis Ark Ø

    Since early December, film music makers have a new sample set to add to their collection: Metropolis Ark Ø, a collection of three by Orchestral Tools. Metropolis Ark Ø concentrates on large orchestral ...

    January 16, 2023