Punch POV 

By Michael Goldman

Veteran stunt coordinator-turned-director Jimmy Nickerson's desire to capture more realistic POVs for boxing scenes goes back to his days working stunts...

The Football King 

By Michael Goldman

For a recent spot, Burger King's mascot, the King, replaces former 49ers quarterback Steve Young in breaking an open-field run, while interacting with...

Long Shot 

By Darroch Greer

Certainly the biggest success story of the Oscar-nominated Best Pictures this year was Capote, an exceptional film made by a writer and director with...

Fade to Black: Wim Wenders, Director  

By Darroch Greer

Wim Wenders has returned to his roots. The German director of The American Friend, Wings of Desire, and Paris, Texas returned to the American West with...

Olympian Storage 

By Michael Goldman

Bill Lorenz, project manager for NBC's editing facilities at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy, worked his fifth Olympics this year...

Digital Fantasy Effects  

By Michael Goldman

Eve and the Fire Horse, a coming-of-age Canadian film directed by Julia Kwan that earned buzz at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is hardly an effects-oriented...

Out and About 

Industry Events...

Proactive Designer 

By Michael Goldman

When veteran production designer Joseph Hodges recently started directing second unit for Fox's 24, he says he felt it represented a long overdue synergy...

HD Olympians 

Michael Goldman

The recently completed Torino Winter Olympics featured several improvements to NBC’s method of producing and broadcasting major sporting events in high definition...

Super Wireless HD 

Michael Goldman

This year’s Super Bowl XL in Detroit was not the first Super Bowl to be shot using an all-HD acquisition methodology, but it was the biggest and most sophisticated HD attempt so far. Mobile production company NEP Broadcasting of Pittsburgh handled the game’s on-site broadcast needs once again this year for ABC.......