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Haunting Melissa Is a Horror Show Crafted for iPad and iPhone
Neal Edelstein, a film producer whose credits include The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, and The Ring, turns director with Haunting Melissa, a horror narrative conceived as an iOS app. Neither movie nor TV show, Haunting Melissa is a series of …

Director Adam Lisagor on the Art of the Soft Sell
When Yahoo recently acquired Summly, an iPhone app that uniquely aggregates and summarizes news from across the Web, the sale turned the app's teenaged creator Nick D'Aloisio into an instant millionaire and rising tech star. D'Aloisio launched Summly last fall …

Cutting from Good Vibes to Bad Behavior for Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers, the latest film from director and provocateur Harmony Korine, is not just one of the weirdest movies to open this year but also one of the most commercially successful, pulling in big numbers last weekend on just three …
Lucien Yang on Rebooting VH1′s Best Week Ever Openers
Lucien Yang, art director at Nice Shoes, began working with VH1 as a freelancer in 2007 and had done a few smaller projects with the MTV sister channel after landing at the New York-based creative design and post facility. His …

Hive-FX’s Jim Clark and Guy Cappiccie on Seamless Morphs for Grimm
NBC's Grimm, which resumes its second season on March 8, revolves around a Portland homicide detective descended from an elite line of criminal profilers dating back to the time of the Brothers Grimm. The detective must tread carefully between his real beat …

Director Ang Lee and Editor Tim Squyres on Life of Pi
After finishing Life of Pi, his eleventh film made in collaboration with editor Tim Squyres, ACE, Oscar-winning director Ang Lee's ideas about the role of the film editor are changing. "The editor for a movie like this is not just [doing] …

Expanding the Handheld Screen for Mobile Roadie
The world may be vast, but it’s also highly mobile. If you have the right tools, the possibilities are endless. That’s the message of the 60-second spot LA-based mixed-media production studio Roger created for Mobile Roadie. Part of the app …

With a Little Help from My Friends: The Making of 1000 to 1
Believe me, being a journeyman DP shooting indie pictures is a hard way to make a living, but it does have its rewards. It can be much more than a job for hire if you are able to enjoy the …

How Berkeley’s Colorflow Graded a Sundance Award-Winning Doc
The waterway referred to in the title of A River Changes Course is the Tonle Sap in Cambodia whose pattern of altering its course twice each year has shaped the lives of local people for centuries. In producer-director Kalyanee Mam’s …
Fox Sports to Deploy Gyro-Cam, Super Zoom 4K for NASCAR
When Fox Sports kicks off its coverage of Speedweeks in Daytona this weekend, it'll bring some camera innovations to Daytona International Speedway. The "Gyro-Cam" is a gyro-stabilized camera that rotates to remain level with the horizon at all times, even …