At 5pm PT this Saturday, I’ll be appearing on the HD Camera Technologies panel with Art Adams, Jim Cummings, Peggy Peralta, Craig Shell, and moderator Matthew Galvin, at the First Annual Silicon Valley Film Festival – “Celebrating Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Spirit, and Innovation in Cinema” - Saturday, August 21, 2010, in Sunnyvale, CA.
For tickets, schedule, and venue details: www.svfilmfest.org
HD Magazine – HD Mag – How Apples iPad Streamlines Work On Set.
I’ve had many people ask me if I’m going to buy and iPad. So far I haven’t seen any good reason to spend the money because I always carry both an iPhone and my 15″ MacBook Pro.
However, this is a great description of how useful an iPad can be on-set, and how it can be used to help manage the TBs of data generated when shooting with a file-based digital HD camera.
Being a color geek myself, I wanted to give a shout-out to our friend Patrick Inhofer of FINI.tv He has a new website devoted to educating people about the art and science of color grading: The Tao of Color
Shooting Dark Prophecy on the Canon 5D – Level 26.
A well-written, highly detailed article on using the Canon 5D for production for the next installment of Anthony Zuiker’s LEVEL 26.
The weekend before last, David and I worked on our next project in the pipeline, the horror short “CONFINED”. It was a two camera shoot, using the new Canon 7D HD-DSLR. David was Second Unit Director, and I was DIT for the single day shoot, as well as Post/VFX Supervisor for the project. I also got a chance to work with a beta of Red Giant Software’s Grinder, which does a great job of transcoding the heavily compressed H264 QuickTime clips into Apple ProRes 422. For ease of editing, and to give us a bit more to work with when doing VFX and Grading.
The project is currently in the edit stage, I’ll post a bit more when it’s back in-house for finishing. Until then, you can catch up with the news and watch the brand-spanking new trailer here: CONFINED Blog & Trailer
As someone who is still finishing up our first in-house production, I found this article n producing quality television on a budget to be very interesting and informative. Notable for the comments from producers of some of the best shows on TV today, including Spooks (shown in the US as MI-5) which is one of my favorites.
From BroadcastNow.co.uk.
Top 10 tips for producing cheaper TV | In-depth | Broadcast.