The last time F&V spoke with Fred Meyers, he was helping Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith get up to speed with HDCAM SR 4:4:4 recording. More recently, he's been working behind the scenes on Journey to the Center of the Earth. We asked him to answer some general questions about the workings of a successful 3D shoot.... »
Journey to the Center of the Earth, directed by Eric Brevig — a filmmaker with lots of experience in the VFX realm — might not have the same historic impact as The Jazz Singer or Becky Sharp, but as the first live-action VFX-driven feature film to be shot for 3D, it can’t help but break new ground.... »
Panavision, da Vinci Systems, Gamma & Density, and Modern VideoFilm all came together at Cine Gear Expo 2008 to reveal what happened the first time the ASC’s CDL has been put to a real-world test, on the forthcoming State of Play, shot on 35mm film and the Panavision Genesis by cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto.... »
Right now, Stereoscope is a post and DI facility with 3D capabilities, but in the near future Cummins plans to have a full-bore production and post company running live-action 3D movies through the pipeline.... »
Production sound mixer mark Ulano won an Oscar for his work on Titanic. F&V asked him about the latest in audio gear and got his thoughts on the potential of the coming digital broadcast transition to wreak havoc on diversity wireless-mic systems.... »
Kung Fu Panda has captured critics and audiences with its irreverent mix of kung fu and heart, a tale of a slacker panda who dreams of being a kung fu master. Design and branding studio Shine was tasked with creating a main title sequence that conveyed all this while serving as a bookend to the 2D dream sequence that opens the film, and crediting 900 people who worked on it. The result, which clocks in at nine minutes, is a mini-movie in its own right.... »
When M2G Media in Irvine, CA, was hired by a global marketing firm to create a video piece introducing the new design for the 2009 Nissan Maxima at the New York Auto Show, M2G producer Jeff Granbery saw Red.... »
Guy Maddin’s work is steeped in fantasy, pastiche and film references, often recreating a past or place that only ever existed in the cinema. Maddin’s style continues to draw upon silent cinema, but here he uses a variety of cameras to create a unique look.... »
Gordon's version of the story, which stars Mena Suvari as the driver and Stephen Rea as her victim, is rewritten to give the poor guy a fighting chance. It's a violent B-movie that's as disturbing as it is funny, a black comedy that's genuinely interested in the psychology of a driver who could ignore the dying man stuck in her windshield.... »
Working from her New York apartment, Nina Paley expanded the scope of a series of shorts she had been working on (they set stories from an ancient Hindu epic, the Ramayana, to the tunes of early jazz singer Annette Hanshaw) to feature-film length. Talk about a personal film.... »
