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| 08|21|2008 |
Matt Armstrong
The survival show Man vs. Wild follows outdoorsman Bear Grylls through some of the harshest environments on Earth. What may be more impressive, at least to those in the production biz, is that a cameraman is undergoing the same ordeals of climbing down waterfalls, jumping out of helicopters and swimming through rivers while still shooting. DP/Cameraman Simon Reay talks about battling the elements, devising a camera package and workflow that would withstand whatever Mother Nature throws at them, and how his job, like outdoor survival itself, essentially boils down to willpower. ... »
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| 08|14|2008 |
By Bryant Frazer
Solid approached the show opener by building a rickety funhouse ride, full of pitfalls, that represents the shaky ride to fame.... »
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| 08|12|2008 |
By Michael Grotticelli
At the beginning of the year, Don Bland trekked to the Arctic Circle to shoot interviews at natural gas exploration sites and remote villages for the second season of the History Channel series Ice Road Truckers.... »
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| 08|06|2008 |
Matt Armstrong
Pow! Pix is making its sixth trip to the Olympics. This year it qualified for the gymnastics event, creating a variety of features, teasers and highlight packages to roll into the live broadcasts, and to re-cut footage from the events if they are not broadcast live. In order to handle the tight turnarounds and loads of HD footage, Pow Pix bought three new Avid Symphony Nitris DX systems. ... »
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| 07|22|2008 |
By Michael Grotticelli
Todd Ulman has served as Associate Producer on ABC Family Channel’s hit show Greek since its inaugural season. He’s responsible for designing the post workflow and making sure that it remains efficient. Interestingly, the teen drama is shot in Los Angeles on Super 16mm (Kodak’s Vision 2 stock), then transferred and mastered on HDCAM SR tape. Among his other production credits are: Observe and Report (Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary Pictures/De Line Pictures), The Haunting of Molly Hartley (Liddell Entertainment/Fastlane Pictures) and Everwood (Warner Bros. Television/Berlanti Liddell Entertainment).... »
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| 07|01|2008 |
Michael Koegel
The facility’s film restoration work includes the classics The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Some Like It Hot, as well as three 1920s Howard Hughes films, one of which, Two Arabian Knights, had been one of only two Oscar-winning films previously considered lost.... »
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| 07|01|2008 |
Lonzell Watson
In this tutorial, the objective is to remove the unwanted noise without degrading the overall sound quality of the scene. Sounds that vary wildly in pitch are the most difficult to remove. Be mindful of your shooting environment and if you anticipate that a particular background noise will give you problems in post...... »
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| 06|24|2008 |
By Michael Grotticelli
Bertini is a veteran sound editor/mixer of numerous high-profile television shows, including all six seasons of HBO’s Sex In The City and the CW Network’s Life Is Wild. His specialty is automated dialogue replacement (ADR) and creating original sound effects.... »
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| 06|10|2008 |
By Michael Grotticelli
Vinten’s Vector 950 Active pan-and-tilt head, which complements Canon Broadcast’s lens-stabilization Optical Shift Image Stabilizer (Shift-IS) technology, can now be used with most existing Canon HD field Shift-IS lenses.... »
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| 05|27|2008 |
Matt Armstrong
Recording and mixing audio on set for reality television is arguably the most challenging situations for a sound department. It takes the unpredictability of documentary shoots, multiplies that many times over with separate lines of action occurring simultaneously and then puts it all under a pressure cooker of time and budget constraints. ... »
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