Category Archives: Shooting

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What’s So Funny About Green Screen, Anyway?

Drew Carey's Green Screen Show has two layers of comedy- the video shot of Carey's 11-man troupe and the props and sets that are literally drawn into the skits by animators from all over the country. The more »

Q&A: Director Chel White

Chel White Director, Bent Image Lab, Portland On: Animating a Live-Action Classic for OfficeMax F&V: What made DDB Chicago decide to animate a successful live-action campaign with "Santa's more »

A Compositing Blast From the Past

Movie icon Steve McQueen may no longer be with us, but he lives on in the new Ford Mustang campaign created by J. Walter Thompson Detroit and produced through Believe Media/Street Light Films. Referencing both more »

Q&A: Michael Mann on Going 50 Percent Digital How it Changed Shooting and Post

Director Michael Mann is well-known as a perfectionist, so it's not surprising that when he started planning the shoot for Collateral, he opted to use fairly new HD camera systems, the only technology that more »

LazyTown Lays Down Staying in Data From Viper to Color Grading

It's a long way between Boulder, Colorado, and Reykjavik, Iceland, but the distance is even greater between a traditional television workflow and a futuristic, data-centric all-digital pipeline. Mark and more »

Rendering Virtual Sets in Real Time For I, Robot‘s Crazy Camera Moves Director Sets Sights Beyond Pre-vis with EncodaCam

When actor Will Smith runs through the robot factory in 20th Century Fox's film I, Robot, he is, of course, actually running on a largely empty green-screen stage. This time, though, using a pioneering more »

Flight Plan

"There are subtle differences in certain colors and gray scale that evoke subconscious memories of movies from different periods," Richardson says. " Marty wants the audience to link those more »

Q&A: M. Night Shyamalan

In the five years since The Sixth Sense, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan has established a consistent record as a Hollywood hit-maker more »

Russell Carpenter’s Perfect Moments

Is there a moment that was key in your decision to become a DP? When I was 13, I took a class where the teacher talked about different media every week. She showed parts of [ Ingmar Bergman's] Persona. I more »

Around the World Rig from Engine Room

VFX studio Engine Room's Around the World radial-arm camera crane is designed to carry any camera up to 150 pounds. Its telescoping arm adjusts from eight to 16 feet for traveling arcs between 16 and 32 feet more »