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Millimeter November 2001

Editor's Notes

Pretty Pictures

Cynthia Wisehart, Editor

I saw The Road to El Dorado when it came out. But I never really saw it. At least that's what occurred to me as I sat in the digital screening suite at...


Features

The 24p Wave?

By Michael Goldman

Millimeter examines the slow, but steady, expansion of 24p HD technology into the world of episodic TV production with some of the principals involved with four shows that rely on the format....


Learning a New Definition

by Kristinha McCort

As numerous filmmakers and television productions embrace high definition, it is clear that HD is emerging......


Inspiring Infrastructures

By Michael Goldman

This year, Sony-owned Game Show Network began implementing a four-phase/multi-year digital asset management strategy for managing programming, including...


The New Cinematography

By S. D. Katz

Over the next decade, cameras will begin to record 3D data along with the traditional Kodak moment. So while a photo will represent a unique view......


Step by Step

Aligning The Stars

by Ellen Wolff

You'd hardly expect a drama starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges to be a whiz-bang effects film, and it's not. But that doesn't mean director Iain Softley...


Clips

Spec Spot

Michael Goldman

First-time director James Sterba discovered that even filmmakers with small budgets can get access to high-end digital post processes. Sterba's first...


Set Incentives

Michael Goldman

Italy's venerable Cinecitta Studios is now 65 years old, covering 99 acres with 22 sound stages. Some of history's greatest films have shot there, including...


Shrek Assist

Michael Goldman

Unique imagery from the feature film Shrek motivated advertising agency BBDO, New York, to approach PDI/DreamWorks, Palo Alto, to create a new :30 for...


Hot Spots

Hot Spots

by Trevor Boyer

A selection of the hottest agency work submitted monthly to Millimeter....


Cool Graphics

Cool Graphics

by Trevor Boyer

The best of broadcast graphics......


Fields and Frames

Fields & Frames

by Dan Ochiva

Coming on top of a general slowdown in commercial spot production, the events of September 11 abruptly halted shoots in New York, according to the Mayor's...


Hotware

Hotware

What's Happening in Networking and Storage? Though trends usually disappear like last year's software upgrade, the growth of SANs in video and audio post...


Digital Production News

Dual Channels are Better than One

Dan Ochiva

On location at Screen Gems in North Carolina with Warner's postproduction on Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, Jim Tucci had a secret that he hadn't...


Scalable SAN

Dan Ochiva

Editing trailers for movies means moving fast. For Trailer Park, a busy and growing Hollywood-based facility specializing in trailers, standalone NLEs...


Fade to Black

Frank Darabont, Director

Michael Goldman

When writer Frank Darabont launched his feature directing career with two Oscar-nominated prison films The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile he...


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