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Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Darroch Greer
FootageBank HD, founded in 2002, has 45,000 clips available online. The company specializes in wildlife and establishing shots from all over the world, shooting primarily with a Sony CineAlta HDW-F900 at 24p.
FootageBank HD
FootageBank HD is an HD-specialty house, and it has been so since its founding in 2002. The company has 45,000 clips online, and it specializes in wildlife and establishing shots covering cities and towns across America in all seasons and matching day and night. The company has a cinematographer in the field all the time, shooting with a Sony CineAlta HDW-F900 at 24p.
[Last summer,] we sent [our DP] to Texas, says founder Paula Lumbard, formerly of Filmbank. He covered Dallas, Austin, Houston, as well as border towns. In the last year, he has been to Atlanta; Savannah, [Ga.]; Miami. He's shooting in Minneapolis right now [November 2007], and Chicago. It's a full-time thing, and it drives a lot of our business in providing establishing shots anywhere in the country. Soon he'll be traveling outside of the country.
Lumbard also represents shooters in other parts of the world, and she just acquired footage from Paris; Istanbul, Turkey; and Mexico. She also has a team in Costa Rica; that same team also shot underwater footage in the Cayman Islands.
One of her more interesting shoots was for FootageBank's Natural History Collection. DP Rob Englehardt of Kaos Entertainment went to Montana to work with Animals of Montana, a wildlife-casting agency. For several days, he shot grizzly bears and wolves in a friendly way. Could there be a remake of Man in the Wilderness in the works? Lumbard is intent on capturing images people think about but that they don't imagine ever getting on film.
FootageBank HD also has the clip licensing from K2 Communications, the large-format filmmakers who brought us Ring of Fire (volcanoes), Adrenaline Rush (extreme cliff jumping), and Bugs (bugs). This large-format material is downconverted to D5. We really are all about feeding the ultimate pixels to our clients, Lumbard says.
