QUEENS, NY — Sherif Sadek, director of the Akhnaton Films (www.akhnatonfilms.com) produced From Queens to Cairo, has been nominated in the category of Best Director of a Short Documentary at the Madri ...
May 9, 2013
God, I love a good meter. Who doesn’t, really? You know how sometimes you get all insecure and weird about a mix you’ve heard more times in the last month than you’ve heard your name in your entire li ...
April 23, 2013
The folks at Red Giant, creators of sexy VFX plug-ins and filmmakers themselves, have come up with a clever piece of software called BulletProof that gives you many of the advantages of an on-set data ...
April 16, 2013
David Elkins is a well sought-after visual effects artist, whose reel boasts graphic elements that are both staggeringly beautiful and wildly fantastical. It’s no wonder then that the artist’s earlies ...
April 15, 2013
I got interested in audio when I was a kid. My parents gave me one of those tan & white Fisher Price record players and I used to just sit there and listen to kids songs all day. I also had this l ...
At this year’s HPA Tech Retreat, Bling Digital led a lively discussion on the impact file-based workflows are having on feature and television post production.
March 14, 2013
Sean vonLembke may have grown up in the 1980s and ‘90s, but for all intents and purposes, his TV was a time machine stuck in the world before 1952 — the only era of movies and shows that his parents a ...
March 8, 2013
LOS ANGELES — What about a film piques your interest and keeps you riveted? Well, for two-time Oscar-nominated director David O. Russell (2010’s The Fighter and the recent Silver Linings Playbook ), i ...
February 19, 2013
NEW YORK — On December 13, 2012 the FCC-passed CALM (Commercial Advertising Loudness Mitigation) Act officially went into effect, requiring commercials and promos to have the save average volume as th ...
February 14, 2013
As first run 3D feature films move into development and pre-production most filmmakers are faced with the inevitable question: whether to shoot the film with stereo cameras; commonly called ‘native’ 3 ...
February 5, 2013