Step by Step: Jarhead By Ellen Wolff
Sam Mendes, the Academy Award-winning director of American Beauty, is hardly associated with visual effects, but he needed them to create Jarhead for...
Paradise Animated By S. D. Katz
Way back in 1991, Francis Ford Coppola famously predicted that video would democratize filmmaking. In the future, he claimed, a masterpiece was as likely to come from, “some little fat girl in Ohio” as it was from a Hollywood studio...
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 Jordi Bares
The Mill
While computer graphics is still a very young field, it has moved rapidly into successful arenas in both film and commercials. Our job has sometimes expanded...
Apartment + Musician + Laptop + HD Camera = Music Video 
By Lee Rickwood
In the video production world, tales of music videos and other projects shot with ultra-low-budgets in some guy's apartment, using borrowed equipment, and edited using off-the-shelf software — aren't exactly new. Such stories might even make you might shrug your shoulders and politely stifle a yawn....
Cooking with HDV By Michael Goldman and Cynthia Wisehart
Producer Steve Kirsh had always thought that a cooking entertainment product like his Good Cooking: The New Basics belonged on television, supplemented by DVD sales. But after meeting up with Steve Michelson, president and executive producer of Lobitos Creek Ranch, he flipped the equation....
Step by Step: Doom By Ellen Wolff
Doom isn't the first blockbuster videogame to get a live-action film treatment, but it gets extra points for attempting something that's extremely difficult to achieve with a motion picture camera — a lengthy sequence that simulates the unbroken...
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...
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...
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...
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