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Glidecam Helps Stabilize Parkour Footage
Chad Bonanno has an unparalleled passion for filmmaking. He came up the ranks of parkour and freerunning, athletic disciplines that require both speed and...
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‘The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution’: Assembling the Documentary’s Varied Voices and Visuals
The film explores the history of the Black Panthers interweaving voices from varied perspectives who lived this story.
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Visual Effects Evolve for ‘Orphan Black’
Following a woman (played by Tatiana Maslany) who is thrust into an international conspiracy that results in her meeting and working with her various...
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‘Every Thing Will Be Fine’ Finished with Mistika
Director Wim Wenders trusted SGO’s Mistika for postproduction on his 3D film Every Thing Will Be Fine, starring James Franco. Working at ARRI Mitte...
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UNICEF UK Uses Aframe’s Cloud Video Platform
UNICEF UK, a children’s aid organization that creates and manages a wide variety of video material, recently implemented Aframe’s cloud video platform to help...
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Kevin Pollak Explores Misery, Comedy in Documentary
Actor/comedian Kevin Pollak directed and edited Misery Loves Comedy, which he describes as “a feature film documentary incorporating interviews with over 60 incredibly famous...
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Expedia Follows a Traveler Through Tokyo
With two commercials directed by Cap Gun Collective’s Tom Haines, Expedia’s new television campaign celebrates travel and adventure. Enticing viewers to take the trips...
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Spotlight: Jody Lee Lipes, Director/Cinematographer, ‘Ballet 422’
Lipes worked with small Canon EOS C300 cameras for the most part and shot entirely in available light to keep a low profile.
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Zeller Depends on SmallHD for Toyota Commercial
Sweatpants Media director/DP Jonny Zeller relied on a SmallHD AC7 7-inch field monitor on a recent Toyota commercial. The SmallHD monitor gave the client...
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Lightborne Projects Visuals for Katy Perry Super Bowl Show
For Katy Perry’s Super Bowl halftime performance, production company Lightborne created animated imagery and LED content that was projected onto a circular stage more...
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Terrence Malick’s ‘Knight of Cups’ Finished at Modern VideoFilm
Shot by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC, on a mix of digital formats and film, director Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups was finished in...
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NBC Sports, Bodega and Rodeo FX Open Super Bowl XLIX
Bodega creative director Haley Geffen teamed up with NBC Sports Group and Rodeo FX to create the show open for the Super Bowl XLIX...
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‘Being Evel’ Traces the Legend of Evel Knievel
For his documentary Being Evel, which examines the life of American daredevil Robert “Evel” Knievel and reflects on the voracious public appetite for spectacle,...
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Encoding Made Easier: Compression Sessions with Sorenson Squeeze 10 Desktop
Squeeze Desktop 10 Pro Video formats don’t hold still for long, and neither do video codecs used for file encoding. As the industry looks...
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Big Sensor, Small Camera, Smaller Price: Surveying the Features and Functions of Sony’s PXW-FS7
Last August, several weeks before the 2014 IBC show, Sony gave me an advance press briefing about its PXW-FS7 camera. The FS7 grabbed my...
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Tips to Clip: March 2015
Droning On More and more of us are using small drones indoors and want to incorporate them into our toolkit of outdoor video tools....
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Bye Bye Boney: Hello Moby
The Matrix Remember when Neo and Trinity rescue Morpheus from the agents and escape in a ’copter? They look down and pow! There it...
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Buyer’s Brief: Camera Support & Stabilization
With this month’s Buyer’s Guide we examine a range of options for camera support, each engineered to keep your shots smooth, balanced and steady,...
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Editor’s View: Content Conundrum
As perhaps you’ve noticed, this is an amazing, interesting, challenging, perplexing, and possibly frustrating time to be involved in video content creation. There are...
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Scaling Mountains with the Zacuto Enforcer
I shoot in unforgiving environments. Some shots require that I lean out into the open air hundreds of feet above the ground with a...
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Gary Baum Calls on Vinten for ‘Go Jerrod Go’
Go Jerrod Go reunites five-time Emmy-nominated cinematographer Gary Baum with director Mark Cendrowski. The multicamera comedy pilot for NBCUniversal stars comic Jerrod Carmichael. In...
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Holding Steady with Steadicam Curve and GoPro
I began my career as a director and cinematographer shooting film. Since those days, camera equipment and technology have changed dramatically, and we’ve all...
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Shotoku Hits the Field for Trans Global Productions
Trans Global Productions is a video production company in Odessa, Texas, that conducts multicamera shoots with up to six HD cameras for on-location or...
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Eclipse Multicam Array Shoots ‘Jupiter Ascending’ VFX Plates
The big challenge on the sci-fi blockbuster Jupiter Ascending was coming up with a way of producing high-resolution background plates of aerial shots racing...
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Redrock microRemote Is a Great Remote Focus for Gimbals
Stabilization gimbals are still relatively new, but they are quickly becoming regular players on motion pictures, television shows and commercials. I worked at Freefly...
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ProAm USA Autopilot is Top Choice for University Film Program
The camera stabilizer became popular when I was a student at Penn State in the late 1970s. Back then, creating stabilized shots required a...
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Action Shooter Dan Campbell Lloyd Chooses Sachtler
Dan Campbell Lloyd with Sachtler Ace L An action shooter best known for his specialty shots and slow motion imagery, Dan Campbell Lloyd is...
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The Tennis Channel Employs Doggicam Bodymount
To promote their broadcasts of the French Open, executives from the Tennis Channel conceived a 60-second video that would put viewers in the shoes...
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National Geographic Filmmaker Weighs in on Hedron Slider
I remember working in the field with a colleague who brought a large Cinevate Atlas 200 Slider to our shoot. It was bulky but...
‘Better Call Saul’: The Formats, Framing and Film Noir Influences of the Series
If you were a big fan of Breaking Bad—wasn’t everyone?—you’ll remember Walter White’s lawyer, Saul Goodman, whose mixture of sleaze, smarts and bravado made...
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Long Awaited, Much Anticipated: First Productions with the Panasonic VariCam 35
The VariCam 35 camera/recorder offers real-time, high frame rate, variable speed 4K recording up to 120 fps.
Thrilling Adventures: ‘Marvel’s Agent Carter’ Combines Classic and Contemporary Visual Styles
Counting on Marvel’s deft touch when it comes to the commercial success of its stable of superheroes that includes Captain America, Iron Man and...
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Stranger Than Fiction: Constructing and Deconstructing ‘The Jinx’
The series covers the enigmatic figure’s life, the horrendous crimes of which he’s been accused and, most puzzlingly for some, the traits that have...
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Inside the Character-Driven War on Drugs Documentary ‘Cartel Land’
Director Matthew Heineman’s documentary Cartel Land tells the story of two leaders in both Mexico and Arizona fighting against a vicious and enormous drug...
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Sophie Deraspe Makes a Spy Thriller out of Sundance Doc ‘The Amina Profile’
“'The Amina Profile' is a documentary about a huge fiction," the director explains.
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