Millimeter November 2003Editor's NotesInteresting TimesBy Cynthia Wisehart, Editorial Director My tenure with Millimeter began in 1993, so this 30th anniversary of the magazine is a 10th anniversary for me. I spent the first five years trying furiously... FeaturesImagining Star WarsBy Ellen Wolff It was a chilly spring night in San Francisco, but the weather didn't deter the crowd queuing outside the Academy of Art College. They were waiting to see honorary doctorates bestowed upon two artists who helped define the look of the Star Wars universe — Ralph McQuarrie and Douglas Chiang.... Final Cutting Cold MountainBy Michael Goldman Somewhere, perhaps inside a dusty, forgotten file cabinet at Paramount Studios, there might still lie a paper co-authored by Walter Murch and Francis Ford Coppola in the early 1970s proposing a method of editing The Godfather digitally, in nonlinear fashion.... Populist PrevizBy S. D. Katz You know an idea has reached popular status when it's christened with an abbreviation. DFD, or digital film design, is computer-based previsualization. And it's finally beginning to reach a broader audience.... Production Meets PostBy Michael Goldman The ambience of the new Fox drama The O.C. is intimately tied to the show's locations. Therefore, when shooting the pilot (on Kodak 5274 35mm stock for daytime sequences and 5279 Vision stock for night scenes) around Southern California, producers spared little expense and effort to capture the look and feel of Orange County's lush, colorful, upscale world.... Roger ReturnsBy Michael Goldman After a black-and-white, photochemical detour with The Man Who Wasn't There in 2001, cinematographer Roger Deakins steered the Coen brothers back into the digital intermediate suite at EFilm, Hollywood, for consecutive feature films — their recent Universal release Intolerable Cruelty and the upcoming The Ladykillers (a Buena Vista 2004 release).... Three Histories: Wag the Dog?By D. W. Leitner Oceans of ink have been spilled about the impact of digital technology on our lives and times, and nowhere have the changes shattered more precedent and liberated more opportunity than in the creation, distribution, and consumption of media, whether Internet, broadcasting, or motion pictures.... Three Histories: Roll Your OwnBy Jeff Kreines Have you ever picked up a new video camera, and, after a few minutes of trying to understand the illogical controls and poor ergonomics, muttered, “Who the hell designs these things?”... Three Histories: Hail the OracleBy Jon Silberg Twenty years ago I was one of the first people on line at the brand-new State Theater, which had opened in the Pennsylvania town where I grew up. The first thing I noticed when I got inside was how tiny the screen was.... Five Years, Five CompaniesBy Dan Ochiva & Bob Turner 1998 was a year to remember. That's when we first heard the phrase that “it all depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”. The US had its first balanced budget in 30 years, and Siggraph celebrated its first 25 years.... |
