2013
HOAX Films Delivers VFX for Britney Spears’ ‘Work Bitch’
Digital production studio HOAX Films provided visual effects services for “Work Bitch,” the new Britney Spears video directed by Ben Mor. The song is...
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2013
Sound Devices 664 Shines on the Set of ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’
George Flores, CAS, is a top sound mixer for television with 16 years of experience working on such leading shows as Southland and Ringer....
2013
Hula Post Production Rocks the House with ‘Metallica Through the Never’
Hula Post Production provided 3D editorial gear and space for Metallica: Through the Never, the new feature-length 3D concert film released worldwidelast month by...
2013
‘Everyday People’ Comes to Life with Shutterstock
To announce the release of a new box set of Sly & The Family Stone’s best-known music, Legacy Records (Sony Music) partnered with Shutterstock...
2013
‘Mel Brooks: Make A Noise’ Completed with BMD Tools
Los Angeles post house Shapeshifter used Blackmagic Design’s Teranex 2D Processor and DaVinci Resolve color correction software to finish the PBS documentary Mel Brooks:...
2013
Canon 5D Captures ‘Cold Turkey’
Cinematographer Lucas Lee Graham says that for the independent film Cold Turkey, he wanted “an intimate, personal look with a really shallow depth of...
2013
‘Chicago Fire’ Is Illuminated with Litepanels
Most of the fire seen in the NBC series Chicago Fire is real, only occasionally supplemented in post. To capture the intensity of the...
2013
‘Rush’ Races Through Post with DaVinci Resolve
Company 3 in London used Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve to color grade Ron Howard’s F1 racing film Rush. Tracing the true story of drivers...
2013
New Perspectives: Zacuto EVF Flip Adds Flexibility to Viewing and Reviewing
I can’t count the number of times I’ve needed to see the camera’s viewfinder and I was on the opposite end of a jib....
2013
Effects for Editors: Pixelmator Team’s Tool Enhances Your Timeline
Over the years, Adobe Photoshop has become the go-to photo and design application for many editors, yet others have simply never warmed to it....
2013
Spiral Symmetry, Superior Sound: Recording with K-Tek’s Nautilus Mic Suspension Mount
As a videographer specializing in wildlife photography, I often shoot alone. It’s up to me to shoot clean audio, not a boom operator or...
2013
Tips to Clip: November 2013
Script Security Scripts can be dropped, jumbled, revised, confused and otherwise mixed up—unless, of course, you follow these tips. The most important one is...
2013
Tablet-Based Teleprompters: User-Friendly, Energy-Efficient Options for Production
Teleprompters have always existed as a series of components. You had a source of text, whether it was a computer or simply paper scripts...
2013
Production Diary: Mistakes: I’ve Made A Few a Lot
How I love American Cinematographer magazine. Next to Digital Video, it’s my all-time favorite. Every month I open it to the inside back cover,...
2013
Elements of Extreme Documentary Production: On Location with the HBO Series ‘VICE’
Shooting for the HBO documentary series VICE, cameraman Jerry Ricciotti and cinematographer Jake Burghart travel the globe to film some of the biggest conflicts...
2013
‘Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight’: Integrating Contemporary and Archival Footage for the HBO Movie
In 1967, when Muhammad Ali was still Cassius Clay and the United States was embroiled in an unpopular war in Southeast Asia, the heavyweight...
2013
Join Us for the Pro Media Conference at GV Expo
I’d like to invite you to join me at our next Pro Media Conference, held as part of Government Video Expo in Washington, D.C.,...
2013
Better Manage Your Media: Work and Workflow with Red Giant Software BulletProof
The folks at Red Giant Software are smart. Not only do they create some amazing tools, they design those tools for maximum user productivity....
2013
Spotlight: Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier, Director & Richard Lowe, Editor, ‘Muscle Shoals’
Greg “Freddy” Camalier worked in real estate when he passed through Muscle Shoals, Ala., and became fascinated by the rich musical history that came...
2013
Suspenseful Storytelling on ‘Captain Phillips’: Christopher Rouse Recalls the Film’s Planning and Pacing
Some of the critics who’ve been praising the relentless suspense in the Tom Hanks feature Captain Phillips might be surprised to know about the...
2013
‘Drinking Buddies’: Cinematographer Ben Richardson on Capturing the Conversational Comedy
Last year, Ben Richardson’s gripping, handheld Super 16 camerawork for director Benh Zeitlin on Beasts of the Southern Wild was the talk of the...
2013
Inside the Mind of MOCAtv
The people responsible for MOCAtv, the YouTube channel of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, have been very busy in the year...
2013
Whitney Presents Panoramic Immersive Video Installation
Starting in September at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art is In the Air, a panoramic video installation created by artist T. J....
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