"What started out as a simple editing exercise—could we tell the entire story of the mission using only archival materials—turned into a cooperative effort by an international team of experts to create the definitive work on Apollo 11 for the screen"
"Through our many years of collaboration we have developed a very precise method of work," says Yorgos Lanthimos's editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis. "The process is about finding the balance, tone and stylistic preferences."
"Filming is a sort of postproduction," director Jean-Luc Godard says.
From 'Chungking Express' to 'A Clockwork Orange,' view a compilation of impactful color in film
Explains the documentary's co-director Ian Bonhôte, designer Alexander McQueen was "an obsessive genius running on raw energy and instinct."
"His creative drive dominated him and ultimately he sacrificed everything just for that."
'JFK Unsilenced' allows audiences to hear the speech delivered in the president's own voice
Explains the documentary's co-director Ian Bonhôte, designer Alexander McQueen was "an obsessive genius running on raw energy and instinct."
"Every combination [of source material] you can think of went into this series. We just embraced the aesthetic defects and differences—creating an interesting visual texture."
How editors Kyle Reiter and Isaac Hagy tell the stories for the series
Göran Olsson's documentary uses long-long footage of Edith and Edie Beale 'to evoke memories in a contagious way.'
Co-director Jeff Desom details the despair.
"Until you see the whole episode in front of you, you don't see what the big picture is."
"George Méliès pioneered film techniques that immersed people in unfamiliar experiences—an early precursor to today's virtual reality."
"My goal is to help you understand as much as possible what this remarkable person is experiencing or doing, and let you judge for yourself."
"We were all very excited about the idea that in this film, the audience is really going to pay attention to every sound in ways they maybe haven't before."
"We were looking at moments in history where you might not know what happened behind the closed doors."
"How Wes Anderson creates moments of wonder, tension, and dramatic atmosphere through his use of sound"
Told from the perspective of his daughter, 'Arthur Miller: Writer' combines interviews spanning decades with personal archival material.
"Garland deliberately set out to construct a dream-like film, with the exploratory team encountering ever more strange sights, including a diverse array of threatening creatures."
"Aaron [Sorkin] methodically worked in a reel-by-reel order. We would divide up sequences between us at breaks that made sense. But when it came time to review the cut on a sequence, we would all review together."
As technology has moved from analog to digital to HD and now to 4K, video producers have been left to sort out the tangle of file structures, compression codecs, and metadata-storage mechanisms for themselves.
The production team faced making a drama series set in the 1950s and '60s using cutting-edge technology that's a million miles from the grainy pictures of the show's time period.
