Talent from Chicago’s Beast, Company 3 and Method Studios recently collaborated to finish Nike’s “No Angel." Nike wanted “No Angel” to create a distinct and relatable identity for the sprawling, image-obsessed, Los Angeles market while paying homage to the City of Angels’ celebrated obsession with the...
Freshly minted Academy Award winner Claudio Miranda, ASC, followed up his stunning work on Ang Lee’s Life of Pi by re-teaming with director Joseph Kosinski, his collaborator on 2010’s TRON: Legacy. Their new creation is Oblivion, a sci-fi tale based on a graphic novel written by Kosinski that reportedly nods to science-fiction classics...
During an open house for the new Global Cinematography Institute, at which I am a teacher, a potential student asked me if I had seen the new iApp from Pro Video Coalition writer and former Digital Video contributor Adam Wilt called Cine Meter. This app combines a light meter, a waveform scope and a false color display to aid in exposure choices....
The Jennings have disagreements like so many other couples. Where should we live? Do we really understand each other? How should we raise the kids? But unlike most, they also have a Soviet double agent tied up in the trunk of the family Oldsmobile. This odd situation exemplifies the tone of FX’s new series, The Americans. Set in the early...
Cinematographer Zach Zamboni brings artistry and adventure to his nonfiction and documentary work. A two-time Emmy Award recipient, Zamboni recently wrapped the final season of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.
Few people saw the 3D broadcast of the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, which took place Sept. 6 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. In fact, the experience was limited to a few hundred fans, winners of a contest held by Trojan condoms, who viewed the VMAs as an “enhanced experience” in 3D in the L.A. Live Theater across the street.
Cinematographer Christopher T. Probst and I have been good friends for two decades. We originally met in Arizona and immediately connected as kindred spirits. We moved to Los Angeles together in 1995, where we shared a one-bedroom apartment with two other people (ah, the wondrous years of real artistic struggle in Hollywood) and we made our way up...
The makers of A&E's two-part medical thriller Coma were charged with creating fast-paced action and a theatrical film-style look, but of course it all had to happen on a TV shooting schedule. Coma stars Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) and features such notables as Ellen Burstyn, James Woods and Richard Dreyfuss, but its schedule and budget...
In his new feature Dark Horse, writer/director Todd Solondz puts a unique spin on what he’s referred to as the “manchild genre,” one that’s familiar to anyone who’s seen a Judd Apatow comedy. But Solondz, the maker of dark, often controversial films including Welcome to the Dollhouse, Palindromes and Happiness, is...
The rollout of the HBO series The Newsroom, a drama that unfolds in the pressure-cooker world of network news production, has been a success. In a key scene early in the pilot, news anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) delivers an impassioned indictment of American exceptionalism, and that idealistic speech made some well timed waves on the internet...
