Creative Analysis: Part 16 - DOP Jody Lee Lipes On I Know This Much Is True January 25^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Allowing one actor to play two roles in the same scene has been possible, at some level, at least since 1961’s The Parent Trap, in which one of Hayley Mills’ arms disappears visibly behind a soft-edged split screen. To put it mildly, techniques have improved, but keeping the necessary technology out

Cinematographer Declan Quinn Selects Cooke S4/i Primes For ‘A Suitable Boy’ Series January 22^nd 2021 - 11:00 AM

When it came time to select lenses for the Lookout Point’s six-episode series of Vikram Seth’s bestselling novel A Suitable Boy, DP Declan Quinn knew exactly what he wanted: Cooke Optics’ flagship spherical S4/i primes.

HDR: Part 19 - Creative Technology - Bayer And Beyond January 22^nd 2021 - 09:00 AM

It’d be easy to think that when Bryce Bayer’s name appeared on the Kodak patent for single-sensor color cameras in 1976, it was a new idea. Sufficiently new to be patentable, perhaps, but actually the idea of covering a sensor with a pattern of primary-colored filters goes back to the

HDR: Part 18 - The Resolution Ruse: It’s Not All Peaches And Cream January 12^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

With Blackmagic recently introducing a new 12K camcorder, the question arises (once again) how much resolution is enough. After all, even the most fervent resolution junkie would have to agree there is a practical upper limit to resolution and how much is actually discernible and worthwhile.

Creative Analysis: Part 15 - Cinematographer Nancy Schreiber On P-Valley January 11^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Often, performers at a strip club are fleeting characters in a film or television production, sometimes reduced almost to the level of production design. P-Valley, produced for Starz by Chernin Entertainment, is based on Katori Hall’s stage play Pussy Valley, and defies that expectation by concentrating on the lives o

Cooke S7/i Full Frame Plus Lenses Used On Netflix’s “The Mess You Leave Behind” January 6^th 2021 - 10:00 AM

Cinematographer Isaac Vila, used Cooke S7/i Full Frame Plus lenses for the 8-episode mini-series “The Mess You Leave Behind”, one of the latest Netflix Spanish Originals.

Creative Analysis: Part 14 - Cinematographer Sebastian Thaler On 7500 December 28^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

According to International Civil Aviation Organization rules, if an airliner transmits a certain four-digit transponder code, the world should assume that it is being hijacked. The 2019 film 7500, directed by Patrick Vollrath, takes that code as its title and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Aylin Tezel and Carlo Kitzlinger as the crew of

Creative Analysis: Part 13 - Cinematographer Stuart Brereton On Baking Christmas December 14^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

In the mid 1990s, the north of England was a hotbed of film production, with well-known features such as Brassed Off and The Full Monty all produced within a few years and a few miles of each other. The Northern Media School, then part of Sheffield Hallam University, was literally

Creative Analysis: Part 12 - Cinematographer Mark Kenfield On Zia November 30^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

By sheer count of productions, the Indian film market is possibly the world’s largest for film in terms of admissions. On average, the country’s cinemas see more than 1.5 annual admissions per capita – and with a population of nearly 1.4 billion, that’s a lot of capitas – with more than 1600 features

HDR: Part 17 - Creative Technology - Is RAW Really Uncompressed & Unprocessed? November 27^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

It’s hard to object to raw recording. The last thing anyone wants is for the creative intent to be adulterated by unfortunate technical necessities like compression, and the flexibility of raw makes for… well. Let’s admit it: better grading, but also easier rectification of mistakes after the fact, to th