When the potential for inclement weather pushed production for this idyllic location spot touting U.K. chain Tesco’s farm-fresh milk up by a day, editor Steve Gandolfi found himself working without the usual video playback system. In a pinch, they worked up a system: 35mm footage was loaded into the Avid via MiniDV, and extensive handwritten notes were made to keep track of timecode. The shoot wrapped late Sunday and aired the following Saturday. We asked Gandolfi via email for details on the seat-of-your-pants shoot.... »
The History Channel's new hit show, Ice Road Truckers, is all about the men who drive big trucks across frozen Canadian lakes, hauling essential supplies to the diamond mines in the far north by traveling roads built across great expanses of frozen lakes. If it takes nerves of steel for the drivers, who can actually hear the ice cracking under their groaning rigs, it also takes a certain kind of grit to ride shotgun with an HD camera. That's what DP Gavin Brennan found out last January, when he hit the Northern Territories to start the three-month shoot. F&V asked him about extreme cold, frozen pixels, and dangerous driving.... »
Daryn Okada, ASC has been elected to serve a second one-year term as president of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). The other new officers are Vice Presidents Michael Goi, ASC, Richard Crudo, ASC and Owen Roizman, ASC, Treasurer Victor J. Kemper, ASC, Secretary Michael Negrin, ASC and Sergeant At Arms John Hora, ASC.... »
Codex Digital, specialist in high-
resolution media recording systems, is launching a new, high-
resolution portable field recorder with the potential to
revolutionise digital cinematography and the production of high-end
broadcast TV and motion pictures.
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Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC will judge entries in the 2007 Eastman Scholarships for film school students and the Kodak Faculty Grant competitions. The deadline for submissions is June 16. Applicants must be attending or teaching at a college located in the United States or Canada. The winners will be announced during the annual University Film and Video Association (UFVA) conference, which is hosted this year at the University of North Texas in Denton, from August 8 through 11.... »
When Technicolor Creative Services announced it would open a Digital Intermediate facility on the Sony lot, the idea was that the proximity of DI to sound mixing and other studio services would create massive efficiencies. That was just proven true, with the 4K DI of Spider-Man 3... »
Post Logic Studios, the leading bicoastal independent post-production and digital intermediate (DI) service facility, has brought Alan Lasky on board as the newest member of its Hollywood sales team.... »
Ousama Rawi started his career in cinematography in the U.K. shooting newsreels for TV, but soon went freelance and began shooting commercials and feature films out of London. ... »
Eric Roth, Executive Director of the Visual Effects Society (VES), announced today the results of the VES 50: The Most Influential Visual Effects Films of All Time, which was determined by a vote of VES members. The VES 50 is the backdrop of the 2007 VES Festival of Visual Effects, which will take place the weekend of June 7-10 at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. ... »
