Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC, peels back the veil on the most provocative book-to-screen adaptation since 9 ½ Weeks Shooting a film like Fifty Shades of Grey comes with challenges that go well beyond camera choice, lighting, location and all the...
More than 50 new films shot by Local 600 members set to debut at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. “Me against the world” is a proper theme for this year’s Sundance Film Festival, unspooling January 22...
Stuart Dryburgh, ASC, helps navigate a dark cyber underworld in Michael Mann’s new techno thriller, Blackhat In the byzantine digital world of computer programming, there are “white hats” and “black hats”: the former, security experts trying to prevent the latter,...
Lovers of the art of cinematography will find a kindred soul in Angelina Jolie. That was obvious three years ago when the Oscar-winning actress presented Dean Semler, ACS, ASC, with an ASC Lifetime Achievement Award. Jolie lauded Semler’s impact on...
– Large 10-inch screen folds out for full-resolution HD monitoring with wide viewing angle and high brightness – Features three separate built-in LCD monitors for camera settings and metadata entry – Record RAW or ProRes with built-in dual CFast 2.0...
The filmmaking team behind the Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club goes even deeper into the backcountry of indie production with the raw and gorgeous Wild. In 1995, a young woman named Cheryl Strayed set out to hike a large portion of...
Following up on the success of its ultra-clever stop-motion features Coraline and ParaNorman, Laika Studios, an animation outpost proudly ensconced far from Hollywood (in Hillsboro, OR), presents The Boxtrolls, a sublime Victorian-era fantasy focusing on the travails and misadventures of...
Bobby Bukowski undergoes the third degree to recreate the harrowing prison drama Rosewater, based on the true-life memoir Then They Came For Me Even by the challenging standards nonfiction-inspired filmmaking often presents with locations, budget, gear and crew, Rosewater, the...
Bennett Miller’s first film, The Cruise (1998), was a nonfiction portrait of Timothy “Speed” Levitch, a tour guide for Manhattan’s Gray Line double decker buses, and it won awards at the Berlin and Newport International Film Festivals. He followed up...
Left to Right: Jon Voight, Rob McFall-B Cam Dolly Grip, George Santo Pietro- A Dolly Grip, Rudy Pahoyo-A Cam 2nd AC, Michael Endler-A Cam 1st AC, Rob McLAchlan,ASC,ACS,-DOP, Gary Johnson-B Cam 2nd AC, Kirsten Laube-Loader, Tim Nagasawa-DIT, Warren Koga-B Cam...
Digital color correction is the now the global standard. But there are many subtle aesthetic differences beyond the post suites of Hollywood. By Pauline Rogers. Moviemaking is a truly global affair. Big-budget films are being made around the world –...
A 6K Data-intensive workflow enables Jeff Cronenweth, ASC, to chase down a “gone girl” in his newest collaboration with David Fincher. A series of mysteries form the core for the best-selling novel Gone Girl and its film adaptation, the subject...
