07|10|2006

Bending the Budget-Audio Rules for Feature Film Work

By Dan Daley

Nobody's getting more from their money than the makers of films in the burgeoning Christian cinema segment. Audio post specialist Nick Palladino tells us how The Second Chance broke new ground in budget audio....  »
06|05|2006

D.P. Rodrigo Prieto on Shooting Babel

By Debra Kaufman

We used different formats — some 16mm, some 35mm and another section with anamorphic. All of it is in the 1.85 aspect ratio, even though we shot with anamorphic lenses. We were going for different textures, different film grain to represent one of the stories ......  »
05|29|2006

Mixing Pocket-Camera MPEG With 35mm Footage on Thank You For Smoking

Interviews by Bryant Frazer

Enamored of the super-compressed output from a Sony DSC-T1 digital still camera, director Jason Reitman blew it up to 35mm for Thank You For Smoking. We asked (via email) why he did it, and how his editors handled the task....  »
05|16|2006

Poseidon’s Wet VFX Work

By Barbara Robertson

Not-blue blue-screen work, state-of-the-art fluid simulation and rigid-body simulation, and a boatload of digital stuntpeople help make a disaster to remember....  »
04|13|2006

DIY Sophie Chase Gets Emmy New-Media Nod

By Bryant Frazer

"There's nothing worse in the world than watching a short film that feels like it's too long."...  »
04|10|2006

Iditarod Doc, Direct to Disk

By Bryant Frazer

Freelance cameraman Mark Falstad decided to head up north to shoot documentary footage of the Iditarod in Alaska with the new PDW-F350, the more expensive of two XD HDCAM options from Sony....  »
04|03|2006

Speed Chills: Ice Age: The Meltdown

By Barbara Robertson

“We had to do the movie in half the time,” says director Carlos Saldanha....  »
03|31|2006

Doing DI the Hard Way on Hard Candy

By Bryant Frazer

Hard Candy is one of the first movies to credit its digital colorist — Jean-Clement Soret of London’s Moving Picture Company — in the opening titles instead of the end-credit scroll....  »
03|31|2006

The Notorious Bettie Page and Her Sordid Sound Design

By Dan Daley

You would have to be of a certain age to understand the full subliminal effect of the sound design for The Notorious Bettie Page. ...  »
03|01|2006

Shooting Temps in HDV

By Bryant Frazer

Looking at the rich, detailed, color-saturated images displayed on D.P. James Weber’s video monitor on the set of Temps, it’s hard to believe they come from the unassuming camera he’s using, which looks just like a DVCAM. ...  »

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