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When the Movie is 3D, But the NLEs Are 2D

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT

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....

Technicolor's 4K Spider-Man DI Pipeline on the Sony Studio Lot

Thu, 7 Jun 2007 0:00:00 EDT

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...

Accelerated Editorial for Road Rules: Viewers' Revenge

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 0:00:00 EDT

When producer Jonathan Murray started looking to bring back MTV’s venerable reality series Road Rules, which went off the air several years ago, he knew the show would need a new hook....

Heading for The Hills

Wed, 2 Aug 2006 0:00:00 EDT

A spin-off of reality show Laguna Beach, The Hills follows Lauren Conrad, a character from a past season, to Los Angeles. Cinematographer Hisham “Sham” Abed used the same camera and lenses as he did with Laguna Beach: the Panasonic 480-line resolution SDX-900 in 24p mode and native 16:9 aspect ratio and a range of Canon HD lenses....

D.P. Rodrigo Prieto on Shooting Babel

Mon, 5 Jun 2006 0:00:00 EDT

We used different formats — some 16mm, some 35mm and another section with anamorphic. All of it is in the 1.85 aspect ratio, even though we shot with anamorphic lenses. We were going for different textures, different film grain to represent one of the stories ......