The Sky's the Limit: Cinematography’s Technological Revolution
Just as smart phones and tablets are changing the way we experience daily life, other technologies are dramatically shifting the cinematic landscape. Directors today can harness these tools in order to express...
The Future of Film, Television (& More): 5 New Mind Blowing Technologies
There are so many scintillating technologies in the works one imagines looking back on James Cameron’s Avatar as almost quaint. As absurd as that sounds, looking around the technology space is like...
Soundtrack Heaven: Inside Llewyn Davis, Her & More
...crew members involved in shaping a film's unique soundtrack, including the sound designer, sound editor, and composer. The importance of a film’s soundtrack is hard to overstate—think of the deathless opening of...
How Industrial Light & Magic Makes Transformers 4: Age of Extinction Shine
...that beat of the movie.” So Meny starts with a series of 2D images captured in the real world, and then helps build the 3D scene around that in the computer. “The...
Costume Designer Alexandra Byrne on Gearing Up the Guardians
...working in such a wide range of film genres. Is there a guiding principle you work under when deploying your skills on films as different as The Phantom of the Opera and...
Full Immersion: Hollywood Eyes New Storytelling Methods
The dreams of a serious virtual reality, the kind of full-tilt total immersion that have been a part of the collective imagination for as long as we've had computers, had seemingly come...
Erik Parker & One9 Discuss Nas: Time Is Illmatic - Part II
...because he can walk around Queensbridge freely, people seem to love him and respect him, and I think it comes from the fact that he’s never betrayed his project or his home,...
Invisibly Invaluable: Birdman Editors Douglas Crise & Stephen Mirrione - PART II
...film was going to be in one take and we’re not steering off that path. He was committed, there was no turning around and shifting gears. Mirrone: In the past three or...
Project Almanac Shoots Found Footage With Cinematographer Matthew Lloyd
...work. The duo decided to split the difference, combining the jittery style of found footage with traditionally shot footage to “engage the viewers in the reality,” Lloyd explained. Found footage can feel...
Game of Thrones Music Editor David Klotz Makes Melody of Mayhem
...that I take and I put into pro tools. As I mix, the other teams— the dialogue editors and the sound designers— they're all bringing in the dialogue and the sound effects...