Summer Children
June 29, 2011 by admin
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By Bob Fisher.
All but a few of the 650 seats at The Egyptian theater were filled during a May 10th American Cinematheque screening of Summer Children. The independent film is the latest in a series of classic movies shown at the renovated theater, which has stood in the heart of the film world’s capital, Hollywood Boulevard, since 1922.
John Kulhanek (Frankie), Valora Noland (Diana), Stuart Anderson, (West) - Photo by Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC
Cine Gear 2011
Paramount Studio Lot - New York Street / Photo by Beth Dubber
Hooked on a Feeling. By Pauline Rogers.
Mother Nature smiled on the film industry this year. Instead of the heat beating mercilessly off the black tar on Paramount’s New York Street (per usual), a pleasant fog and balmy temperatures greeted a record crowd at Cine Gear 2011. The seminars and panels were well attended, indicating an economy on the mend and — fingers crossed — a new production boon on the West Coast. Industry mavens like John Bailey, ASC, Dion Beebe, ASC, Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, and Robert Primes, ASC, talked to capacity crowds about everything from historic movies to the future of DSLR and 3D. Read more
President’s Letter – July 2011
June 29, 2011 by admin
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Talk To Me
As cinematographers we often have to talk about our work as much as we have to execute it. These days, it seems, verbal skills for our camera team members are as important as the technical and artistic skills we so love to put into practice. Read more
ICG July 2011
THE INTERVIEW ISSUE
- Ellen Kuras, ASC
- Michael McDonough
- Tim Orr
- Roberto Schaefer, ASC, AIC
- Chris Cookson
- Guillermo del Toro
- David Wertheimer
- Ryan Heide
- Colleen Lindl
- John McIntyre
- Dave Perkal
- Joe Johnston
- Ralph Winter
- Robert Stromberg
- Kevin Tod Haug
- Josh McLaglen
- Jonathan Filley
- G. Mac Brown
- Kirk Petruccelli
- James Wong Howe, ASC
- Sol Negrin, ASC on Harry Stradling, Sr.
- John Bailey, ASC on Nestor Almendros, ASC
SHOOTING GALLERY
DEPTH OF FIELD: Foster Soles
DEEP FOCUS: K.C. Bailey
Exposure: J.J. Abrams
In the late 1970s, J.J. Abrams and his friend, Matt Reeves, were novice Super 8 filmmakers in Los Angeles when they received a call from Steven Spielberg’s office. The director had seen a photo of the boys in an article in the Los Angeles Times about young people and their hobbies, which happened to be the filmmaker’s passion when he was a kid, so he asked if they wouldn’t mind cleaning up some of his own boyhood films. So it was, at the age of 13, that J.J. Abrams first crossed paths with Steven Spielberg. Read more
Mystery Train
Larry Fong reteams with boyhood pal, J.J. Abrams, to conjure a magical era of moviemaking in Super 8. By Matt Hurwitz. Photos by Francois Duhamel. Read more
President’s Letter – June 2011
June 2, 2011 by admin
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Moving Targets
Sometimes the best action shots are simply a camera placed in the right position, at the right time, not moving at all. Some of the best movement I’ve ever seen in films and television shows has been where the action is staged perfectly in front of the camera. In a landscape filled with amazing new tools and ways to radically move the capture device like never before, let’s not forget what may some call the old-fashioned way of creating movement in the frame: with your actors. Read more
It’s a Phosphorous World
June 2, 2011 by admin
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Matt Hurwitz goes in search of the color science of LED lighting.
Sci-Tech Council (Solid State Light Subcommittee) Test Graphic with SPD and MacBeth Charts / Courtesy of AMPAS
ICG June 2011
SUPER 8
DP Larry Fong
By Matt Hurwitz
GREEN LANTERN
DP Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS
By David Heuring
TREME
DP Ivan Strasburg, BSC
By Pauline Rogers
ART OF THE CAR CHASE
UNITY SERIES PART V: HAIR & MAKEUP
By Pauline Rogers
EXPOSURE: J.J. Abrams
REPLAY: X-Men: First Class
UNSCRIPTED: Bill Coleman / Edward W. Lowry
DEEP FOCUS: Paul Cameron, ASC
GEAR GUIDE: Moving Camera
