Creating The Look & Feel For Netflix Film ‘Purple Hearts’ With Cinematographer Matt Sakatani Roe November 9^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Matt Sakatani Roe shares his experiences shooting the Netflix film ‘Purple Hearts’, staying hands on with the camera, staying close to the characters and leveraging natural light.

HDR: Part 6 - PQ And HLQ Cinematography October 18^th 2022 - 09:53 AM

Like a lot of new ideas in film and TV, high dynamic range pictures are easy to like. The fear is that they’re far harder to create. In reality, HDR isn’t necessarily a huge burden, certainly not in the way that stereo 3D can be. It’s often been …

Creating The Look & Feel For Netflix Series ‘Mo’ With Cinematographer Timothy M Burton October 11^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Timothy Burton shares his insight into how the Netflix series ‘Mo’ tackles a potentially difficult subject with humour and style, with a look and feel that captures the heat of its location and pace of its narrative.

HDR: Part 5 - Jargon Buster October 4^th 2022 - 09:27 AM

The techniques of 35mm film are seductively simple. The process is the same no matter what the camera in use, or how the film will be cut. Conversely, every digital camera might have its own ways of approaching different parts of the process, creating a forest of terminology – gamma, gamut, s…

Location Shooting: What Kind Of Place Is It? September 19^th 2022 - 09:30 AM

Capturing the essence of a location in a single shot or series of shots can present a range of challenges for the itinerant DOP.

Creating Virtual Production Environments With Production Supervisor Don Bitters September 8^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Much of the attention enjoyed by virtual production currently goes to the spectacular stages with LED displays the size of half a dozen cinema screens. The material we put on those displays, though, can come from a number of places, and anyone putting together a virtual shoot will quickly encounter…

Using Cinema Cameras For Live Sports Broadcast July 7^th 2022 - 09:30 AM

We discuss the business case and technology challenges of using cinema cameras in live sports broadcast with Mark Chiolis of Mobile TV Group.

Too Few Crew To Meet The Post Pandemic UK Production Surge July 4^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

There has been an almost inevitable surge in TV production in the UK as the pandemic recedes. The way the sector has rapidly hit production capacity highlights some long-term issues with how the industry attracts and trains new talent.

HDR: Part 4 - Surviving Modern Colorimetry June 29^th 2022 - 09:55 AM

Most people are aware that any color can be mixed from red, green and blue light, and we make color pictures out of red, green and blue images. The relationship between modern color imaging and the human visual system was recently discussed by John Watkinson in his series on color.…

Orbital Virtual Productions - New Large Scale Virtual Production Stages In Downtown LA. June 21^st 2022 - 09:00 AM

Nobody’s risking much, in 2022, by assuming we’re living through the genesis of virtual production. There are enough high-profile productions happening to lend the technique some legitimacy, and while the surge in both interest and the provision of facilities makes it hard to say how demand and supply are mat…

2024 BEITC Update: ATSC 3.0 Broadcast Positioning Systems May 15^th 2024 - 10:00 AM

Move over, WWV and GPS. New information about Broadcast Positioning Systems presented at BEITC 2024 provides insight into work on a crucial, common view OTA, highly precision, public time reference that ATSC 3.0 broadcasters can easily provide.

Wi-Fi Gets Wider With Wi-Fi 7 March 26^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

The last 56k dialup modem I bought in 1998 cost more than double the price of a 28k modem, and the double bandwidth was worth the extra money. New Wi-Fi 7 devices are similarly premium-priced because early adaptation of leading-edge new technology is nearly always expensive. The 6 GHz Wi-Fi band was introduced…

NAB Show 2024 BEIT Sessions Part 2: New Broadcast Technologies March 25^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

The most tightly focused and fresh technical information for TV engineers at the NAB Show will be analyzed, discussed, and explained during the four days of BEIT sessions. It’s the best opportunity on Earth to learn from and question indisputable industry experts, meet them, and swap business cards.

Chris Brown Discusses The Themes Of The 2024 NAB Show March 20^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

The Broadcast Bridge sat down with Chris Brown, executive vice president and managing director, NAB Global Connections and Events to discuss this year’s gathering April 13-17 (show floor open April 14-17) and how the industry looks to the show each year for the latest in technology and business models.

Project Managing The Creative Elements Of Live Sports Production March 4^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

Huw Bevan is an Executive Producer, Consultant and Head of Cricket for Sunset+Vine, in London, one of the UK’s leading independent sports production companies that produces a full slate of rugby, soccer and cricket events each year. This interview with him brings insight into the role of the…

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