Past Present
Tim Ives channels his inner Allen Daviau for the 1980’s inspired sci-fi series Stranger Things.
With the hit Netflix series Stranger Things having recently streamed its second season, showrunners Matt and Ro... Read More...
Into The Wild
Media-based journeys push technological limits at Sundance 2018
In the six years since Sundance’s New Frontier program debuted Nonny del la Peña’s iconic virtual reality (VR) experience, Hunger in L.A., th... Read More...
Beat That Wall!
Television’s most heart-pounding action comes from an obstacle-course road show, better known as (cue the announcer) American Ninja Warrior!
Anyone who’s been in the control room during a live sports broadcast – college or pro football, the March Madness ba... Read More...
President’s Letter May 2018
A Fail-Safe Operation
This issue of ICG Magazine is all about action cinematography. But what really constitutes an action shot? Is it as simple as an operator running with a camera on his or her shoulder as... Read More...
Bad Lands
Visualizing the daring and often scary world of David Fincher requires new technologies and processes rarely attempted in series television.
In the Season 1 finale of Netflix’s MINDHUNTER, a dist... Read More...
President’s Letter April 2018
Surfing Chaos Part 1
Emerging technology is a wave perpetually rolling across the entire spectrum of the media entertainment ecosystem. In this two-part series, I’m exploring the shifts in that ecosystem with Howard Lukk, a top technologist who is now the S... Read More...
1st Of Their Kind
Rachel Morrison, ASC, claws into the cinematic debut of the history-making African-American superhero Black Panther.
It's only with some hyperbole that one can say the level of anticipation for writer/direct... Read More...
President’s Letter February/March 2018
"#Time Is Now"
I have always made it a goal to include women and people of color on my crews, but that’s hardly been an easy ask. One time (in another country that shall go nameless), I was interviewing pote... Read More...
NEXT-Level Filmmaking
Buckle up for the biggest, baddest, bravest Sundance yet, as ICG filmmakers (who account for more than half of all the shorts/features in the fest this year) dump a blizzard of daring and innovation on Park City. By David Geffner. All photos courtesy of The Su... Read More...
President’s Letter January 2018
"What Dreams Are Made Of"
In our professional lives as cinematographers, camera operators, assistants, DIT’s, still photographers and publicists, there’s nothing more satisfying than completing a successful ... Read More...
In The Name Of The Father
The penultimate episode of cinema’s greatest franchise has arrived. So which is more surprising?: who really are The Last Jedi’s heroes and villains, or its indie creators with an edgy new vision?
You’d ha... Read More...
President’s Letter December 2017
"Problem Solved…"
No matter what production we’re working on, or what job classifications we belong to, our jobs as Local 600 members always consist of solving problems. And one of the great methods of problem solving is by deductive reasoning. As I learned... Read More...