The film was produced on approximately a $2 million budget in 35 days on Prince Edward Island on the east coast of Canada. Miller and Kuras were committed to shooting in real-time continuity, essential because... »
Location shoots take place every week, and the show has its own library of scene-setting stock footage from helicopters. But 80 percent of each episode is photographed on a soundstage, estimates associate... »
"I was going into it thinking,‘I’m editing a big film, in an ex-Soviet bloc country, with a system that hasn’t been tested at this level before,’" Murch recalls. "You know?‘OK, here I... »
This prompted the first discussions of treating the scenes in a digital intermediate process. Eventually, the filmmakers processed the entire film using a DI at Framestore CFC in London. It was Seale’s first... »
There’s no question that the Broadway Screening Room in midtown Manhattan is one of the most comfortable places to see a screening. It’s also now one of the most accommodating for editors. That’s because... »
At Modern VideoFilm, summer has never gone by so quickly. One of the busiest pilot seasons in memory meant highly compressed production schedules and brutal deadline pressure. Thanks to Modern’s four-year... »
"Let’s see what it looks like if we make this scene a little warmer," John Schwartzman, ASC, says to senior digital colorist Stephen Nakamura. If Nakamura were a timer at a film lab, Schwartzman... »