Millimeter February 2001COVERFeaturesFight or Switch?BY Michael Goldman On Stage 22 at the CBS lot in Studio City, a TV film crew is spending a seemingly ordinary day shooting flashback and insert segments for the Fox sitcom... Frozen ExplosionMichael Goldman The so-called frozen time, virtual camera effect has been around for years, and received its greatest attention for the unique fight sequences in The... Honoring the BrainiacsEllen Wolff Every spring, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestows scientific and technical honors on the wizards who invent tools for the filmmaking... Underwater StorytellerBarry Braverman For 20 years, cameraman Mark Shelley has documented the natural world as one of the planet's foremost underwater specialists. His National Geographic... ABCs of RentalAudrey Doyle Certainly the rise of DV has made equipment ownership more widely affordable for many shooters and editors, but if your needs run to typical camera packages... Regional ReportNew Techniques and New MediaKristinha McCort With advances in broadband and streaming technologies, Los Angeles-based companies from traditional film and broadcast backgrounds are increasingly utilizing... TechnologyHold EverythingDan Ochiva Making the best choice for storage and networking means more than just choosing among drive types or networking technologies. As always, intended use... The Little Engine That CouldEllen Wolff A decade ago, costly computers from SGI ruled the world of digital effects. During the 1990s however, turbocharged PCs increasingly challenged the hegemony... The Lure of LinuxJean-Luc Bouchard Jean-Luc Bouchard is marketing director of Venice-based Nothing Real, which makes high-end compositing tools including the popular Shake. In this piece... Step by StepCast AwayEllen Wolff One moment in the Twentieth Century Fox/Dreamworks film Cast Away reveals just how marooned the character played by Tom Hanks truly is. Climbing atop... ClipsWhat Lies BeneathKristinha McCort A recent campaign for Wells Fargo, out of DDB Needham, Los Angeles, may look straightforward, but it actually involved a considerable amount of labor... ClipMail CampaignMichael Goldman At least one thing did go right for Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 election speedy distribution of some of his political ads. In particular, a... Winston's Animatronic BehemothMichael Goldman Under a tarp on a Universal lot soundstage lurks Stan Winston's biggest, baddest creation to date Spinosaurus. Now on hiatus, the 40-foot high, 24,000-pound... Going MobileMichael Goldman As 2001 dawned, the mobile production industry was gearing up to make onsite editing built around hard-disc server technology a common service for major... Mo-Cap WizardryMichael Goldman In New Zealand, production on New Line's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy continues at a hectic pace, with the first of the three films The Fellowship... Hot SpotsHot Spotsby Kristinha McCort Portland General Electric In this beautiful spot for Portland GE's EcoStore, little girls holding eco-conscious flashlights run through a backyard forest... Cool GraphicsCool GraphicsKristinha McCort MTV Title Sequence Production/Design Amoeba Proteus/Crossroads Design, New York Directors Dan Schrecker, Jeremy Dawson Executive Producers Stephen Axthelm,... Fields and FramesFields & Framesby Dan Ochiva Has Sony positioned itself to become the dominant player in the Internet and new media entertainment spaces? By April, according to news reports on the... HotwareHotwareDan Ochiva IBM's M Pro Goes Pentium 4 IBM became one of the first vendors this past fall to announce a workstation, the M Pro, built around Intel's Pentium 4. The... Digital Production NewsMaking Data Part of ProductionDan Ochiva For Andrea Kalas, installing a media asset management (MAM) system just made sense. Kalas, director of the Virtual Studio at Discovery Communications... Revisiting Seven's Design LegacyKristinha McCort A lot of the designers didn't want to touch Seven there was such a big obligation toward the film, recalls Steve Kazanjian, partner at Santa Monica-based... Beta SightMTI's Digital Restoration Suiteby Mark Girard High Technology Video (HTV) is a Los Angeles-based video postproduction company that focuses primarily on high-definition long-format feature film mastering,... Fade to BlackFade to BlackDarroch Greer Terence Davies, Director Though we have lost Stanley Kubrick, England still holds a treasure in Terence Davies, the emotionally astute director of Distant... ArticlesLove's Labor Lost?by Michael Goldman Last year, Titus producers and Fox TV executives decided to switch the sitcom's production method from 35mm film cameras to Sony's 24p HD cameras, rented... |
