October 1, 2012

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    October 1, 2012
    In this issue:
    - Posting Episodic TV
    - Advertising & the Internet
    - Audio for Stereo 3D
    - Director's Chair: Martin McDonagh — 'Seven Psychopaths'
    - Edit This! - 'Cloud Atlas'
    - Review: Wacom's Cintiq 24HD
    - and much more!!

Departments

  • 'Dexter' embraces Nikon's D800
    'Dexter' embraces Nikon's D800

    When you give our “TV Series” feature a read this month, you’ll notice a trend: shows that shoot digitally also shoot on a variety of smaller cameras for those hard-to-get shots, in addition to their ...

    October 4, 2012

  • Composer Michael Bacon: 'Downtown Express'
    Composer Michael Bacon: 'Downtown Express'

    NEW YORK — Composer Michael Bacon (www.michaelbaconmusic.com) is the brother and bandmate of a famous actor with the same last name, yet he’s never lived in LA. Instead, Michael Bacon has built his ca ...

    October 5, 2012

  • Director's Chair: Martin McDonagh - 'Seven Psychopaths'
    Director's Chair: Martin McDonagh - 'Seven Psychopaths'

    HOLLYWOOD — Writer/producer/director Martin McDonagh won an Academy Award for “Best Live Action Short Film” for Six Shooter, his first foray into film, and followed that project with his feature film ...

    October 5, 2012

  • Review: Wacom's Cintiq 24HD
    Review: Wacom's Cintiq 24HD

    I can recall, many moons ago, the first time I saw someone using a Wacom tablet. It was an NAB, and I remember thinking how impressive it looked. I also remember thinking it would never be adopted by ...

    October 8, 2012

  • Workflow: 'Cloud Atlas'
    Workflow: 'Cloud Atlas'

    HOLLYWOOD — Cloud Atlas, the award-winning multi-dimensional narrative written by David Mitchell, has been rendered into an epic, visually-stunning movie experience by three renowned directors: Tom Ty ...

    October 19, 2012

Features

  • Advertising & the Internet
    Advertising & the Internet

    Many brands have embraced the Internet as a way to engage consumers beyond what can be accomplished in a broadcast capacity. Experiences can range from informative to entertaining to interactive, and ...

    October 5, 2012

Web Exclusives

  • A52 tests Nvidia's next-gen Maximus
    A52 tests Nvidia's next-gen Maximus

    SANTA MONICA — We met Lon Grohs, VP of Business Development at Chaos Group, at Escape Studios this past Spring. We both happened to be presenting that evening — a52 was there to show off a beautiful C ...

    October 15, 2012

  • Director's Chair: Jim Field Smith - 'Butter'
    Director's Chair: Jim Field Smith - 'Butter'

    NEW YORK — On October 5th, Radius-TWC released Butter, a new comedic feature that looks at the competitive world of butter carving in the heartland of America.

    October 8, 2012

  • Film Sound: 'Pitch Perfect'
    Film Sound: 'Pitch Perfect'

    Coming to theaters October 5th is the Universal Studios film, Pitch Perfect, which features the music of collegiate a cappella singing groups. Pitch Perfect is a musical comedy about an all-girl singi ...

    September 28, 2012

  • Sébastien Montaz-Rosset's extreme filmmaking
    Sébastien Montaz-Rosset's extreme filmmaking

    Sébastien Montaz-Rosset - “Seb” — is a talented, self-taught French filmmaker who specializes in filming extreme athletes in extreme conditions. One of his latest short films, I Believe I Can Fly (Fli ...

    October 9, 2012

  • Sound Design: Jon Title finds inspiration
    Sound Design: Jon Title finds inspiration

    HOLLYWOOD — One thing that Jon Title has learned in his 15-plus years as a sound designer and sound editor at Soundelux: inspiration can appear in the unlikeliest of places. 

    October 8, 2012

  • Student to Pro: Cutler Gray
    Student to Pro: Cutler Gray

    Cutler Gray is a rising post production star in his final semester at California State University Northridge. He additionally attended TheFilmSchool in Seattle, studying storytelling with Stewart Ster ...

    October 4, 2012

  • Transmedia Storytelling: What we learned from 'Lost'
    Transmedia Storytelling: What we learned from 'Lost'

    Getting lost is seldom a good thing, but in the case of J.J. Abrams’ ground-breaking series Lost, it would have been nice to see media industries truly “get it.”

    October 8, 2012