Millimeter September 2002Editor's NotesDigital by the SeaCynthia Wisehart, Editor The posh Bacara spa sits right on the Pacific in Santa Barbara. It's not the kind of place that encourages people to sit in a darkened room listening... FeaturesPractically Effective Spotby Michael Goldman
The Case for Filmby Jon Silberg
Realtime Recordingby Blair Jackson
They are the workhorses of the film sound world: enduring endless days toiling in often hostile environments, arriving on the set before shooting begins and staying after it ends; there for every take and retake.... TechnologyBits on the Moveby S. D. Katz By the time I've filed this story, there will probably be three new computer bus standards and a couple of extra flavors of SCSI. OK, that's a slight exaggeration, but if you feel as though there are more storage and network standards than you can keep track of, you're not alone.... Step by StepBlue Crushby Ellen Wolff
ClipsFirst-Time Editing HighMichael Goldman Win and Sarah Whittaker of Ashford, Wash., were experienced mountaineers and filmmakers when they embarked three years ago on a project to make a documentary... Usher's Friendly BankMichael Goldman When Washington Mutual asked Seattle agency Sedgwick Road to create an advertising campaign promoting the bank's debut in New York City, it brought in Kinka Usher to direct two commercials promoting the bank's customer-friendly approach.... Using Mo-Cap to TrackMichael Goldman Director Robert Rodriguez and his effects team on Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams say they benefited greatly from motion-capture help in building a couple of effects scenes, but not in the usual way.... Hot SpotsHot Spotsby Trevor Boyer A selection of the hottest agency work submitted monthly to Millimeter.... Fields and Framesfields & framesby Dan Ochiva Gartner Dataquest recently announced that the billionth PC shipped this past April, some 25 years after the introduction of what the research company... Beta SightMedia 100 844/XAndrew Heimbold, Reality Check Studios Since when does a design and digital effects company enjoy any real time to hone, refine, and change any part of a complexly layered client project at any time right up until final output?... Fade to BlackFade to BlackMichael Goldman Prior to last year, Alan Caso had no strong desire to move back into episodic television work. In fact, he hadn't served as DP on a TV series since the early '90s.... |
Director Jan De Bont was firm from the outset: the visual effects required for a new :60 international spot promoting Pirelli Tires had to be created entirely in-camera. De Bont feels realism is crucial when selling products in commercials......
Film is dead, right? It's been in all the papers. In recent months, a handful of high-profile, and some not-so-high-profile, moviemakers have expressed their disdain for the century-old image-capture medium, and their preference for moving into an all-HD universe......
When director John Stockwell took on Universal Pictures' surf movie Blue Crush, he probably didn't expect to oversee any innovations in visual effects. This being his second feature (following Crazy/Beautiful), Stockwell's priority was getting performances from the young actors portraying daredevil......