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recognizing product introductions that serve television, professional video and broadcast/online radio users,
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things Fall apart for Force Majeure Natural Disasters and the Dissolution of a Perfect Family
lust
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learn
38 imaging innovations the Next New Class of Cameras and Sensors
44 epic editing How Director Angelina Jolies Unbroken Was Assembled
48 managing and moving your media tips for Preparing your Files (and
Formats) for Post
feature
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16 Antarctica: A Year
on Ice
52 tips to clip
Recording the
Remarkable Environment
(and Real life) at the
South Pole
53 Inside Man Capturing the CNN Series with Canons EOS C300 and 5D
Mark iii
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incredible footage without disturbing the scene. Combined with the cinematic style and integrated workflow of the EOS C300
Cinema Camera, Maker is equipped with the tools to produce high-quality content in a fast-paced environment.
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The V&A production crew consists of a director/producer, three camera operators, one A/V technician for audio and checking live streaming output, a web technician to help set
up the stream and web pages, plus a presenter for live interviews.
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elbourne, Australia, production company Final Focus used the blackmagic Production Camera
4K to shoot a music video for the band Pseudo Echo, the title track off their new album,
Ultraviolet. Explains Adam Haywood, cinematographer and co-owner of Final Focus, We needed a 4K
camera due to the fact that the music video was shot entirely on greenscreen. this not only helped in
regards to the quality of the key, but it also gave us the ability to punch in for a closer shot without quality loss since the delivery was HD. the blackmagic Production Camera 4Ks images are amazing. Even
back in the edit suite i couldnt believe how good the shots looked.
he short film in a City, shot with Samsung NX1 cameras, depicts diverse experiences from
seven cities. Joseph Gordon-levitt, with his open collaborative production company hitRECord, enlisted his community of cinematographers, musicians and lyricists to create the short
film, curating the best crowd-sourced content to feature in the final cut.
We set out to make a film that speaks to a common experience, shared by millions of
people, but set in some of the worlds most diverse cities, Gordon-levitt explains. When
youre creating art, its
important to know
that your tools will
match your ambition
and that you can rely
on the technology
to enable, not limit,
your artistic vision.
Samsungs NX1 is an
awesome camera and
it allowed us to create
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llumination Entertainment, producers of the Despicable Me films and the upcoming spin-off
Minions, invested in Adder technologys Adderlink infinity to increase its production capacities.
using the Adderlink infinity products, our editors are now able to set up for dailies or a review session on the Avid system in their edit bay and then bring up that system in the review suite without
interrupting any other sessions, explains illumination Entertainment it director Joe Stevano. Adding
Adders digital KVM switching solution to our editorial infrastructure has given us increased flexibility
in working on multiple productions.
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inematographer and VFX technical director Christopher Webb captured the essence
of the bMW i8 with i8 illumination, a 60-second film realized entirely with in-camera visual
effects.
Webb and his team developed optical
mechanics, specialty camera motion rigs and
animated lighting units designed to evoke
the power and momentum of the i8 while it
remained completely stationary. My team
and i wanted to express our love of handmade
visuals, which are at the core of our work, Webb
explains. i feel that images created in-camera
really speak to viewers and awaken the creative
spirit.
Webb and his crew spent about two weeks
creating mechanical rigs and lighting effects
projected onto movable screens. they also
constructed large-scale moving lED units
to sculpt animated light around the vehicle
and send light into custom optics in front of
the camera. We wanted to create a sense of
atmosphere and motion, Webb says, though we had no sets and the car
never moved.
Webb captured both moving and still images of the i8 with a RED Dragon
6K camera. A Canon EOS 5D Mk iii was used for long exposure effects. Optics
included older Nikon specialty lenses. Camera motion was achieved with
gliders and nodal heads built by Myt Works and a motorized P+S technik
Skater dolly. the team also built custom rigs in-house and used motion
control systems from eMotimo and Kessler. Animation was captured with
Dragonframe stop motion software from DZED Systems.
Although we storyboarded and did extensive testing prior, we kept a
freedom to our process, continues Webb. Once we found our light and
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Spotlight:
crystal moselle
Director
The Wolfpack
JON SilbERG
Crystal Moselle
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Antarctica
A YeAr on Ice
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bY John MerlI
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Powell learned that you need to be careful about looking into camera viewfinders when you have ice built up on your
face and eyelashes. It is easy to freeze your eyelashes to the camera.
Powell says of Antarctica, It is the last pristine wilderness left on the planet. The skies are clear and free of light
pollution, letting you see more stars than you can imagine. The auroras and nacreous clouds can fill the entire sky
sometimes. It is just breathtaking.
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The family: Tomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke), Harry (Vincent Wettergren), Vera (Clara Wettergren) and Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli)
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Blackmagic Develops a Comprehensive, Cost-Effective Cinema Camera
Quick Take
Product: Blackmagic URSA (EF
mount)
i was present at the 2014 NAb Show last April when blackmagic
Design CEO Grant Petty introduced the uRSA 4K camera. While
the announced features and specs were certainly impressive, i was
a little put off by the size. Arent cameras supposed to be getting
smaller? Who is going to buy a 16-pound brick of aluminum with
a 10-inch screen? i wondered if blackmagic Design had made an
uncharacteristic misstep.
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so that the
user can use any HDMi
camera as a sensor head. My
test camera was the EF mount model.
the Pl and EF models of uRSA use the same
sensor as the blackmagic Production Camera 4K,
a 4K Super 35 image sensor with global shutter. it
supports ProRes HQ, ProRes 422, ProRes lt and
ProRes proxy recording at resolutions up to ultra
HD. it shoots uncompressed CinemaDNG raw
and, with the recent update, 3:1 compressed raw.
uRSA records to dual CFast 2.0 cards. CFast
media is somewhat scarce at the moment but
prices have dropped significantly. A 128 Gb
CFast card can be found for around $800,
about the same price as a comparable Sony
XQD card (also hard to find in stock) but
more expensive than SSD drives used in the
blackmagic 4K camera. Media costs need to
be considered when estimating the cost of a
complete system. blackmagic supplied two
128 Gb cards and a uSb 3.0 CFast reader for
this review.
i had noted excellent skin tones when
shooting with the blackmagic Production Camera
4K; uRSA showed similar strong performance here.
the cameras color science produces very pleasing
images, in fact, and reds actually appear red. i
did note that when shooting in bright sunlight
with external ND filters (uRSA has no built-in
ND), blacks looked a little brownish, indicating
iR contamination. it is easily overcome by using
SHOOTING EXPERIENCE
uRSA is designed for multi-operator operationi
was particularly impressed with the viewscreens
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POSTPRODUCTION
the postproduction workflow is greatly
facilitated by DaVinci Resolve. Simply copy those
CinemaDNG files to an edit station and import
into Resolve. Apply lut, if desired, and output in
an editing format to your favorite NlE. Edit and
bring back into Resolve for final grading. Working
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SUMMARY
the strength of the blackmagic solution is that
the company gives you what you need to shoot
4K uHD footage. the camera is well designed. i
think of it as minimalist in design and maximalist
in output quality. it is heavy, but experienced
operators will find it well balanced if mounted to a
third-party shoulder mount. the Pl or EF mounts
are not interchangeable, but blackmagic has said
that the whole sensor and mount assembly is userupgradeable if at some point blackmagic should
release a new sensor. the ability to upgrade the
sensor extends the cameras lifespan.
My skepticism turned to admiration. it is a
camera i would be thrilled to own and one with
which i could create a wide range of work. look
at the specs for yourself. i think blackmagic has
a winner with uRSA. if your work is in features,
commercials or shorts, uRSA is well worth your
consideration. dv
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Its been a good year for GoPro. First, a segment on 60 Minutes, which
has to be a first for a camera, followed by a $3 billion IPO. Contrary
to much of the companys marketing efforts, GoPro does not sell
POv cameras only to adrenaline junkies capturing their adventures
on skis, skateboards or bikes. Im seeing GoPro cameras used as
tiny HD cameras for reality television, webcasts (e.g., Jerry Seinfelds
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee) and tv news magazines. GoPro
itself is pursuing new markets with its HeRO4 Black/Music kit.
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In this months Buyers Guide we examine a number of options for portable storage, products engineered to let you move and manage your media,
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Just like you probably were, I was pretty stoked to add a nifty Apple iMac to
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transfer a 3 GB movie file in 8 seconds and a 10 GB movie file in 27 seconds. T1 may be password-protected and uses
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Above: Zamperini (Jack OConnell) and Capt. Russell Allen Phil Phillips (Domhnall Gleeson) in Unbroken, which
follows the life of Olympian and war hero Louis Louie Zamperini, who survived in a raft for 47 days after a nearfatal plane crash in World War IIonly to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner of war camp.
Below: In the camp, Zamperini was singled out by prison commander Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Miyavi, pictured at right),
known to the men as The Bird, for particular sadistic acts of mind games and brutality.
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EDITOR INTERACTION
the first assembly of the film was finished in
February and Squyres continued to work with Jolie
to hone and tighten the film. Squyres says, this
was my first time working with an actor/director.
i really appreciated how much care she took with
performances. that was very central to her focus.
Even though theres a lot of action in some of the
scenes, it never loses sight of the characters. Shes
also a very smart director. this film has hundreds of
visual effects. She quickly picked up on how effects
could be used to enhance a shot and how an effect,
like CG water, needed to be tweaked to make it look
realistic.
William Goldenberg joined the team in June
and stayed with it until October 2014. this was
Squyres first time working with a co-editor. Since
the film was well past the first cut stage when
Goldenberg came aboard, the two handled their
duties differently than two editors might on other
films. Goldenberg explains, Since i wasnt on from
the beginning, we didnt split up the film between
us, with one editor doing the action scenes and
the other the drama. instead, we both worked
on everything very collaboratively. i guess i was
brought in to be another set of eyes, since this was
such a huge film. id review a section and tweak
the cut and then run it by tim. then the two of us
would work through the scene with Angie, kicking
around ideas. Shes a very respectful person and
wanted to make sure that everyones opinion was
heard.
Squyres adds, Each editor would push the
other to make it better.
this is usually the stage at which a film might
be completely rearranged in the edit and deviate
significantly from the script. that wasnt the
case with Unbroken. Goldenberg explains, the
movie is told partly through flashbacks, but these
were scripted and not a construct created during
editing. We experimented with rearranging some
of the scenes, but in the end they largely wound up
back as they were scripted.
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Co-pilot Hugh Cup Cuppernell (Jai Courtney) steadies his plane, on which Army Air Corps 2nd Lt. Zamperini serves as a bombardier.
Breaking record after record across the nation, the 19-year-old Zamperini qualified for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He had come within seconds of breaking the four-minute mile
when he enlisted for service in the war.
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Another instance in which Galkin and Vlasits
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When you are dealing with subjects who might
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at them, the smaller the footprint you have, the
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cameras added a lot to reducing our presence as
filmmakers and letting the subjects we interviewed
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Galkin and Vlasits cite the low-light capabilities
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Man. Whenever you are dealing with vrit or
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dont want to distract from the interaction between
your subjects.
We put these cameras through their paces, he
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Look What Theyve Done to My Studio, Ma
TOTALLY SMITTEN
its nice to see a grown man so in love with a new
toy. Of course, ive been there myself.
Way back in 1976, i have four sound studios in
london, called Molinare. like a crazy fool, i order
Ampex VPR-1 videotape recorders. And you know
what? When i order them, i never think about new
premises. 100,000 of video kit and nowhere to put
it but like larry, i am in love.
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So here it is 35 years later, 2015. Molinare has
changed hands several times. the new owners,
headed by Steve Milne, have turned my garagecum-video studio into the largest preview theater
in Europe.
And hey, it does 3D stereoscopic color grading
hmmm, maybe i could book it for my 3D tall ship
doc? Just a thought. dv
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