Category Archives: Creativity

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Go to the Roger Corman School of Filmmaking Bryan Singer Shoots Practical, In-Camera Effects on Fox’s House

Shooting The Usual Suspects in 35 days helped feature film director Bryan Singer ( X-Men, X2) understand and appreciate the time crunch and budget constraints of TV production. "I employed the old Roger more »

Pretend You’re Working On a Feature Film

How do you handle the workload for a TV pilot whose outsized VFX demands feel more like a feature film? If you're the VFX supervisor for Alias creator J.J. Abrams, you pretend you're working on a feature more »

New Season 2004: Hawaii

While director of photography Crescenzo G.P. Notarile is shooting NBC's new hour-long drama Hawaii on location in Oahu, Hawaii, Encore Hollywood colorist Pankaj Bajpai is an ocean away color-correcting more »

Real-World HDV

When HDV arrived on the scene last year in a camera marketed by JVC, it was dismissed in some quarters as a prosumer format unsuitable for pro video applications. more »

3D Immersive Sound Hits Hollywood

The father of MP3, Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg, hasn't rested on his accomplishment of creating a standard for transmission of music files from the internet to personal electronics. In late more »

Reconstructing the Image

It's not your typical post workflow. Then again, Danish director Christoffer Boe doesn't have your typical feature-film sensibility. more »

New Season 2004: The Mountain

Take a high concept - literally, in this case, as the show's set at a ski resort-and add the visually innovative McG (The O.C., Charlie's Angels), his seasoned executive-producing team of Stephanie more »

A Century of Stock

"This is a huge subject, so the big challenge was deciding what to leave out, as we had such a wealth of material to draw on," reports director/producer Michael Kantor, who has worked on PBS more »

HydroFlex Takes Sony’s HDW-950 Underwater

HydroFlex President Pete Romano knows a thing or two about underwater cinematography. (He's a former Navy diver whose film credits include Gothika and Pearl Harbor.) more »

How DP Dion Beebe adapted to HD for Michael Mann’s Collateral

"Frantically, between takes, we were trying to figure out what was wrong," Beebe recalls. Condensation? No. Did someone smudge the lens? Nope. It turns out that the Collateral crew fell victim to HD more »