Creative Analysis: Part 5 - Video Displays With Markus Förderer August 24^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

It’s perhaps a little unfair to blame modern visual effects people for the fact that audiences are becoming a little jaded about green screen. If we’re to conclude that there’s some sort of quality problem with VFX, we’d need to be sure that we were noticing each an

Matthews’ Intros Gobo Plate Mounting Adapter August 21^st 2020 - 12:05 PM

New adaptor adds a versatile solution for grip gear compatibility.

Brightline Expands LED SeriesONE August 13^th 2020 - 01:50 PM

Energy efficient lighting systems vendor upgrades its L1.2 and L1.4 LED SeriesONE studio fixtures with variable color temperature and improved color rendering.

HDR: Part 12 - The Right Side Of Lenses August 3^rd 2020 - 09:00 AM

There are a number of reasons why people like old lenses, and they’re all very valid. Cameras and lenses so good they’re invisible are a recent development. Most of the best films ever made, by default, predate today’s spotless pictures, and artists have always been a rebellious bunch

Lockdown Lighting July 20^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Lets’ start by stating the obvious: TV reporters are not trained lighting designers. When the pandemic hit, stations were forced to figure out new ways of socially distanced, on-air reporting, and initially asked reporters to pick a well-lit room in their house and place a lamp behind the camera to i

Creative Analysis: Part 3 - The Road Bad & The Place Dark From The Cinematographer July 15^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Planning the cinematography of a production which is quite literally about darkness is a challenge. Shooting a documentary with a skeleton crew in a place where power cuts are every day is an even bigger challenge. Director of photography Miguel Angel Viñas faced all that and more on The

HDR: Part 11 - Large Format Viewfinders July 9^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

The image of a director crouching to line up a shot with an optical viewfinder is one that’s been pushed aside somewhat by the less romantic modern image of a director squinting at an LCD monitor. The monitors have a lot to recommend them – in an ideal world, they can

Creative Analysis: Part 2 - Penny Dreadful From The Cinematographer June 17^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

For anyone who’s seen the first series to bear the title, the name Penny Dreadful will conjure up images of occult happenings in a shadowy, late-Victorian world. After twenty-seven episodes across three highly successful seasons, Showtime aired the last episode of Penny Dreadful in June 2016. By November 2018, the network h

ATG Danmon Tapped For New UHD Production Studios At Fidelity International June 4^th 2020 - 12:05 PM

Veteran systems integrator ATG Danmon has completed a UHD video production facility for the London headquarters of Fidelity International, an investment firm. The project was prompted by Fidelity’s recent relocation to a new office building at 4 Cannon Street in the center of the city’s financial district.

HDR: Part 10 - Large Format Cinematography And Lenses June 3^rd 2020 - 09:00 AM

Most film and TV jobs start with some simple questions, as Gregory Irwin puts it. “What is it, where is it, when is it.” In April 2018 Irwin found himself asking those questions of cinematographer Lawrence Sher, with whom he’d collaborated on five previous films beginning with John Hamburg’s I Love