By Ken Hayward
Rainmaker
Vancouver-based Rainmaker began modestly in 1979, offering Rank-Cintel film scanning, then state-of-the-art 1in. video editing, and service in all aspects...
By Michael Goldman
Australian sister facilities Digital Pictures Iloura and Digital Pictures Melbourne recently combined a Lustre-based digital intermediate workflow with...
A Blustery DI By Michael Goldman
Late last year, just prior to sailing off to shoot the next two Pirates of the Caribbean films, director Gore Verbinski finished up what he refers to as his so-called “little, low-budget” movie starring Nicholas Cage...
By Michael Goldman
O Entertainment of San Clemente, Calif., recently created a new iteration of the project formerly known as Santa Claus Versus the Snowman using Adobe Premiere...
By Lars Palmqvist
Digital Film Lab
In 1998, Digital Film Lab became one of the first postproduction facilities in Europe to introduce the digital intermediate (DI) process for long-format...
Tight Ship By Michael Goldman
Joss Whedon Chuckles at the question, "How did the filmmakers behind Universal's Serenity produce a high-end, science-fiction epic for the big screen without access to Star Wars-type money?" "We did have Star Wars money — the money they had in the 1970's for the original Star Wars, that is," he laughs. "Actually, it's true — this is a low-budget film relatively speaking, but we had the advantage of using fresh...
By Michael Goldman
The documentary My Date with Drew mocks the notion that ultra-low production values will inhibit getting your movie a major theatrical release...
Legato's Laboratory By Michael Goldman
Rob Legato ignores the African elephant lumbering past his Ford SUV during the brief ride up a dusty mountain road leading from to Legato wants to get...
By Adam Glasman and Asa Shoul, Framestore CFC
When we demo our DI capabilities to clients particularly people new to this field they're frequently blown away by how much we can do in digital grading....
The Bay Method By Michael Goldman
Michael Bay freely admits that he broke a few longstanding rules while making The Island for a new studio, DreamWorks, after years partnering with Jerry Bruckheimer at Disney. Among those rules: Never show an unfinished film to studio executives without an audience present, and never screen parts of the movie for the press before it's finalized. Bay says, however, that, while making the movie, he remained committed to his own creative process. ...
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