August 1, 2015

  • 10-Aug-2015
    August 1, 2015
    In This Issue:
    - Emmy Contenders
    - Director's Chair: F. Gary Gray — Straight Outta Compton
    - Primetime: TNT's The Last Ship
    - VFX: Starz's Black Sails
    - Review: JVC's Super 35 4K camcorder
    - Special Focus: 4K & HDR
    ...and much more!!

Departments

  • Director's Chair: F. Gary Gray — 'Straight Outta Compton'
    Director's Chair: F. Gary Gray — 'Straight Outta Compton'

    New Yorker F. Gary Gray first made his name directing hit music videos for such artists as TLC, Cypress Hill, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Queen Latifah and Whitney Houston before helming his first feature film ...

    August 10, 2015

  • Primetime: TNT's 'The Last Ship'
    Primetime: TNT's 'The Last Ship'

    The Last Ship, from executive producer Michael Bay, set sail on TNT in 2014 and continues its voyage in Season 2, taking viewers on one sea-bound adventure after another. Here, the crew of US naval de ...

    August 10, 2015

  • Storage: Scale Out vs. Scale Up
    Storage: Scale Out vs. Scale Up

    Media formats grow larger and more complex with every incremental upgrade release of a camera or application. What options exist for production companies when it comes to getting work done, given this ...

    August 31, 2015

  • VFX: Starz's 'Black Sails'
    VFX: Starz's 'Black Sails'

    Starz’s hit series Black Sails premiered in early 2014 and recently completed airing its second season. Set in the 1700s, during the golden age of piracy, the show fictionalizes real-life pirates, inc ...

    August 10, 2015

Features

  • 4K/HDR: Delivering seamless solutions
    4K/HDR: Delivering seamless solutions

    Presented by ALT Systems: Colorfront (www.colorfront.com), the Academy and Emmy Award-winning developer of high-performance, on-set dailies and transcoding systems for motion pictures, high-end episod ...

    August 19, 2015

  • 4K/HDR: Grading the Marvel/Netflix series 'Daredevil'
    4K/HDR: Grading the Marvel/Netflix series 'Daredevil'

    Marvel’s DareDevil is the latest hit from Netflix and, just like the provider’s other shows, is being streamed online in 4K. The series stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer who, with his ...

    August 19, 2015

  • 4K/HDR: The state of the art - Part 1
    4K/HDR: The state of the art - Part 1

    As the motion picture and television industries begin to work with higher resolutions, such as 4K (4,096x2,160 pixel image raster), and UHD (Ultra High Definition 3,840x2,160 pixel image raster), and ...

    August 14, 2015

Web Exclusives

  • Audio: The 'I Am One' anti-bullying campaign
    Audio: The 'I Am One' anti-bullying campaign

    COLUMBIA, MO — Mike Swittel recently provided sound design and mixing services for I Am One ( www.iamonecampaign.com ), a new short film that is part of an anti-bullying campaign that encourages high- ...

    September 3, 2015

  • Editing: ABC's 'Modern Family'
    Editing: ABC's 'Modern Family'

    Modern Family has remained on the Television Academy’s Emmy nomination list since its premiere in 2009, recognized for and winning numerous awards as Outstanding Comedy Series. This year, among the AB ...

    August 18, 2015

  • Filthy Look Films employs Red Giant plug-ins
    Filthy Look Films employs Red Giant plug-ins

    Filthy Look Films (www.filthylookfilms.com) might not be “dirty” as its namesake suggests, but it certainly is of-the-earth. Founder and director/cinematographer Mick Jones supplements this with his o ...

    August 25, 2015

  • Getting Started: Mix Engineer Michael Marinelli
    Getting Started: Mix Engineer Michael Marinelli

    Michael Marinelli is a co-founder and heavily booked (bordering over-scheduled) mix engineer at NYC’s Union Square-based audio post boutique Sonic Union (www.sonicunion.com) with a repeat client list ...

    August 13, 2015

  • Getting Started: Mixer Ben Freer
    Getting Started: Mixer Ben Freer

    Eleven Mixer Ben Freer originally comes from Manchester, England, but grew up in San Diego, CA. After earning his BA in Film, TV & Radio Production from Cal State Monterey, Freer returned to Engla ...

    August 13, 2015

  • Getting Started: Online Editor Herrianne Cayabyab Catolos
    Getting Started: Online Editor Herrianne Cayabyab Catolos

    Practicality and family expectations led me to initially choose a very traditional major in the medical field — a common career within the Filipino community I come from. A friend in my English writin ...

    August 12, 2015

  • Getting Started: VFX Artist Halbo van der Klaauw
    Getting Started: VFX Artist Halbo van der Klaauw

    I have to admit, there was never a master plan to get into post production. When I was a child, I wanted what every child dreams of: to be a rocket pilot. Everything I have learned, I’ve learned on th ...

    August 12, 2015

  • Music Video: Kendrick Lamar — 'Alright'
    Music Video: Kendrick Lamar — 'Alright'

    LOS ANGELES – Ntropic (www.ntropic.com) colorist Trevor Durtschi worked closely with London Alley Entertainment director Colin Tilley, and DPs Rob Witt and Corey Jennings to create a dramatic black an ...

    August 18, 2015

  • Music Video: Madonna — 'Bitch, I'm Madonna'
    Music Video: Madonna — 'Bitch, I'm Madonna'

    Madonna clearly just wants to have fun at a star-studded penthouse party in Bitch, I’m Madonna, her third single from the "Rebel Heart" album. Directed by Jonas Akerlund, with post production by MPC N ...

    August 18, 2015

  • Music Video: Pitbull w/Chris Brown — 'Fun'
    Music Video: Pitbull w/Chris Brown — 'Fun'

    What could be more “fun” than Pitbull and Chris Brown riffing on '80s TV show Miami Vice in their newest music video, Fun, with ice cream-colored suits, fast cars, gorgeous girls, a speedboat, Art Dec ...

    August 18, 2015

  • Podcast: Creative Sound for Documentaries, with Coll Anderson
    Podcast: Creative Sound for Documentaries, with Coll Anderson

    What role can impressionistic sound design have in documentary films? In this episode from Dolby Institute, sound designer/mixer Coll Anderson explains it’s all about “telling human stories.” Anderson ...

    September 8, 2015

  • Previs: 'Ant-Man'
    Previs: 'Ant-Man'

    Saving the day is a big job for an insect-sized superhero. In creating the action for Marvel’s Ant-Man, director Peyton Reed and team used specialized techniques, including macrophotography, to depict ...

    August 14, 2015

  • Previs: 'Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation'
    Previs: 'Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation'

    LONDON — Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation ups the ante in a major way with death-defying action atop an Airbus, along a motorway, at a theater and inside an underwater vault. Planning the movie’s un ...

    August 13, 2015

Reviews

  • Review: HP's z840 workstation
    Review: HP's z840 workstation

    Over two years ago, I reviewed the HP z820 Red Edition workstation. It was incredible, to say the least, and it made me rethink the possibilities in post production. With 4K becoming a serious contend ...

    August 14, 2015