David Elkins is a well sought-after visual effects artist, whose reel boasts graphic elements that are both staggeringly beautiful and wildly fantastical. It’s no wonder then that the artist’s earlies ...
April 15, 2013
I got interested in audio when I was a kid. My parents gave me one of those tan & white Fisher Price record players and I used to just sit there and listen to kids songs all day. I also had this l ...
At this year’s HPA Tech Retreat, Bling Digital led a lively discussion on the impact file-based workflows are having on feature and television post production.
March 14, 2013
Sean vonLembke may have grown up in the 1980s and ‘90s, but for all intents and purposes, his TV was a time machine stuck in the world before 1952 — the only era of movies and shows that his parents a ...
March 8, 2013
LOS ANGELES — What about a film piques your interest and keeps you riveted? Well, for two-time Oscar-nominated director David O. Russell (2010’s The Fighter and the recent Silver Linings Playbook ), i ...
February 19, 2013
NEW YORK — On December 13, 2012 the FCC-passed CALM (Commercial Advertising Loudness Mitigation) Act officially went into effect, requiring commercials and promos to have the save average volume as th ...
February 14, 2013
As first run 3D feature films move into development and pre-production most filmmakers are faced with the inevitable question: whether to shoot the film with stereo cameras; commonly called ‘native’ 3 ...
February 5, 2013
SANTA MONICA — Digital advertising agency The ZiZo Group led the creation of one of the single-largest social media video campaigns in Olympic history. Raising an Olympian is a 21-video collection of ...
January 31, 2013
Music and sound are still the most powerful tools for emotional branding and memory recall. Whether you use custom music, a library track, or an artist cut, music can make the most impact in deliverin ...
January 14, 2013
I get asked to do articles and talks like this pretty regularly. Like most pundits, I’m not often asked to review my own predictions. I just keep looking forward and ignoring all of my past prognostic ...
January 3, 2013