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| 12|22|2011 |
Bryant Frazer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close deals with one of the most fraught subjects that can be tackled by a filmmaker — the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Set in New York City between 2001 and 2003, the film sees the events through the eyes of a child who lived them. The subject matter complicated things for the editorial team, which was tasked not just with handling the material with appropriate sensitivity, but with organizing a significant amount of VFX work depicting the New York City of 10 years ago, all with an end-of-year release date looming ever closer. Film & Video spoke with associate editor David A. Smith about the special challenges of the project.... »
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| 11|22|2011 |
By Bryant Frazer
Jason Kramer is serious about music. Influential, too. He's the music supervisor at Elias Arts, where he helps make musical matches in commercials from the likes of Pepsi, Audi, BMW, Lexus, Infiniti and Kia. He's also a DJ at iconic L.A. public-radio station KCRW.... »
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| 09|16|2011 |
By Bryant Frazer
The latest innovation in color-correction makes it a web-based service. Writer-director Ryan Byrne said he was inspired to set up ColorCorrection.com by the sense that independent filmmakers needed better access to color-correction services that would fit neatly into independent filmmaking budgets.... »
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| 06|30|2011 |
By Bryant Frazer
One of the things you notice about the languid, mysterious Mary Marie — part sisterly coming-of-age film, part erotic drama — is how the sequences of gorgeously colored and composed images bring to mind a carefully curated photography exhibit. They also convey a pointed intimacy that gives the film its urgency. Film & Video interviewed DP Magela Crosignani about the challenge.... »
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| 06|27|2011 |
By Bryant Frazer
Director Klaus Obermeyer’s Aero Film gets impossible helicopter shots with something called the Klaus Cam — just a three-axis, hyro-stabilized head hanging low on a cable beneath a helicopter.... »
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| 06|13|2011 |
By Bryant Frazer
Ubiquity Broadcasting, based in San Juan Capistrano, CA, is dedicated to platform- and screen-independent content creation. That means that when the company captures action-sports footage, it's meant to appear in a variety of different venues, whether it's streamed live to your iPhone or iPad or rebroadcast in a digital auditoriums at your local multiplex.... »
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| 06|02|2011 |
By Bryant Frazer
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group yesterday announced that Dan Glass was taking the reins as executive vice president in charge of the company's VFX operations, which are now united under the Method Studios banner. In a phone interview, F&V asked Glass about his new role, what clients can expect to see happen in the near future, and the mounting competitive pressures of a globalized VFX marketplace.... »
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| 05|20|2011 |
By Monte Swann
As President Obama watched live video of the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, I couldn’t help but be reminded of a scene from Patriot Games where Jack Ryan witnesses a covert military strike on a training camp in Libya.... »
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| 02|24|2011 |
By Barbara Robertson
The visual effects Oscar nomination for Iron Man 2 is Ben Snow’s fourth. He previously received nominations for Iron Man, Star Wars Episode II – Attack of the Clones, and Pearl Harbor. A member of the Academy since 2007, Snow has worked as a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic on seven feature films and in various roles on 17.... »
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| 02|23|2011 |
By Barbara Robertson
Tim Burke won an Oscar for Gladiator in 2000 and was visual effects supervisor for Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, which released in 2001. And then he hopped the magical train to Hogwarts and stayed there for 10 years.... »
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