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...
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. ...
Rodriguez and 3D Post By Michael Goldman
Robert Rodriguez says that even as production of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3D entered the 11th hour, he decided to make a major change in the postproduction...
By Michael Goldman
When director Tom Zuber approached DP Lisa Wiegand to shoot a low-budget (less than $1 million) feature called Little Athens, they first discussed shooting...
NAB 2005 By D. W. Leitner, Bob Turner, S. D. Katz, Michael Goldman, and Dan Ochiva
Who would have thought that pint-sized camcorders could cause such a stir? You didn't need Sherlock Holmes to find the crowds stuffing the booths that...
Fade to Black: By Michael Goldman
Janusz Kaminski, finally a dad at 45, is managing just fine with his two-week-old (at press time) twins, Bruce and Helena, though he says, "All they want to do is eat and sleep right now." Speaking of which, Helena drains a bottle...