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Oscar-Nominated VFX Supe Richard Stammers Talks Prometheus
Richard Stammers, nominated for an Oscar for his VFX work on Prometheus, joined the Moving Picture Company (MPC) as a digital compositor for the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone after working as a compositor and visual effects supervisor …
Editor Adam Pertofsky on Cutting First “Got Milk?” Super Bowl Ad
Super Bowl ads may be best known for peddling chips, beer and body parts, but that didn't stop America's Milk Processors, purveyors of the long-running "Got Milk?" campaign from giving it their best shot. Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, Battleship) …
Nice Shoes Colorist Chris Ryan on “Asad”
For writer/director Bryan Buckley, it was time to do something different. A commercial director and co-founder of the production company Hungry Man, Buckley has put Martin Scorsese and Suri together in the back of cab for Apple, Ellen DeGeneres together …
Evolve Digital Cinema Baits the Hook for NatGeo’s Wicked Tuna, Season 2
Brothers Joel and Jesse Edwards run their boutique production company Evolve Digital Cinema in Chicago as one tight ship, often handling full production and remote or in suite editorial, graphics and color grading for a single client. National Geographic Channel, …
Kenny Stoff on Shooting Dave Grohl’s Sundance Doc Sound City
Housed in a pair of nondescript warehouse structures in Van Nuys, California, Sound City Studios hardly had the outward appearance of a rock and roll Mecca. Yet for 40 years, it served as the launching pad for some of the …
Nikon’s D800 Gets Down and Dirty for Dexter
Dexter, Showtime's award-winning series that sprang from the 2004 novel, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, entered its seventh season last fall with a renewed perspective on the tale of a forensics analyst who also happens to be a vigilante serial killer. Says …
In the Field with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera
If you pre-ordered the Blackmagic Cinema Camera (BMCC) shortly after its NAB debut, it's been a long road. The camera missed its originally scheduled ship date as Blackmagic Design dealt with behind-the-scenes issues having to do with the camera's CMOS …
PostWorks Re-Recording Mixer Christopher Koch on Eugene Jarecki’s The House I Live In
Just released in theaters, The House I Live In is Eugene Jarecki’s provocative new documentary on America’s war on drugs. A winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the film mixes interviews with law enforcement …
Method Studios Renders Genre- and Time-Bending Dreams for Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, never dreamed his sweeping, time-, identity- and gender-shifting novel in six interlaced stories would make it onto the screen. “It’s a shame this is unfilmable," he has admitted thinking while writing it. "This will …
Jordan Goldman on Editing Homeland
The first season of Showtime's Homeland — which won six major awards at the Emmys last week — amounted to a very tricky cat-and-mouse game involving Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), a brilliant but bi-polar CIA officer, and Nicholas Brody (Damian …