Creative Analysis: Part 21 - Cinematographer Markus Förderer On Bliss April 16^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Speculative fiction is something that’s often hovered on the borders of drama, fantasy and sci-fi, and one of the huge benefits of the streaming media revolution is that much more of the genre has found a way in front of both a camera and a large audience.

HDR: Part 22 - Creative Technology - Non Standard April 1^st 2021 - 09:00 AM

Read too much film and TV industry technical literature, and it’s easy to get the impression that everything about the technology is built to carefully considered specifications. As Philo Farnsworth’s wife was probably aware, though, as he tinkered with the electronics while she sat in as a test sub…

Creative Analysis: Part 20 - Cinematographer Pete Romano On Underwater Filming March 30^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

There aren’t many positions in the film industry which have the prerequisite of spending an hour sunken in the waters off San Diego in a classic diving suit with a blacked-out helmet. To be fair, it wasn’t so much the film industry that made Pete Romano do that; it …

Creative Analysis: Part 19 - Cinematographer Angus Hudson BSC, On The Life Ahead March 15^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Spending a few weeks in southern Italy is a popular idea. For cinematographer Angus Hudson, BSC, an opportunity to soak up the Puglian sun would come in the form of The Life Ahead (in Italian, La vita davanti a sé), a film directed by Edoardo Ponti and starring Sophia Loren …

Creative Analysis: Part 18 - Cinematographer Johnny Derango On Fatman March 1^st 2021 - 09:00 AM

Possibly one of the last features to wrap before the global pandemic effectively shut down production was Fatman, a dark action comedy directed by Eshom and Ian Nelms and starring Mel Gibson as the kind of Santa Claus who would probably exist in 2020 if one existed at all.

HDR: Part 21 - Creative Technology - The Size Of Light February 22^nd 2021 - 09:00 AM

Most people are aware that the amount of detail in a photograph is dependent on a few things. Assuming focus is right, it’s easy to assume it’s a combination of how well the lens was made and the number of pixels on the sensor, give or take the…

Creative Analysis: Part 17 - DOP Simon Rowling On Legacy Of Lies February 15^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Some films languish in preproduction hell for years. For cinematographer Simon Rowling, though, only a matter of days elapsed between first discussing Legacy of Lies and flying out to begin location scouting. The production, which stars Scott Adkins as a CIA agent in pursuit of Russian kidnappers, was written and…

HDR: Part 20 - DOPs: Do We Still Need Green? February 8^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

With the recent advances in artificial intelligence, post-production rotoscope tools are now so good that some DOPs are asking if we still need to use green screen at all, or at least, in quite the same way. Suddenly, it seems any background, no matter how complex, can be replaced in…

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…

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…

Live OB TV: It’s A Magic Show - Part 1 December 6^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Most live remote outside broadcasts are thoroughly planned by producers and directors who are often too busy to consider potential equipment problems. Technology is an engineering responsibility. Engineers must be ready for any circumstances that threaten to take the show off-script or off-air, from dead wireless mic batteries to unexpected…

Timing: Part 9 - Time Base Correction December 1^st 2021 - 09:00 AM

Time base correction is an enabling technology that crops up everywhere; not just in broadcasting.

Apple’s Next Generation Processor Is All About Power… Consumption November 29^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

The last twenty years has seen a lot of film and TV hardware turn into software that runs on workstations and servers. With Apple’s move away from Intel, though, and several other recent attempts to popularize alternative designs, anyone looking at new equipment finds a field in flux.

AJA Video Provides Flexible Bridge From SDI To NDI And Back Again November 26^th 2021 - 09:30 AM

As broadcast facilities and other organizations that use media to educate and inform continue to carefully make the move to video over IP, they currently face two main options, with a range of others in the wings. They may opt for a full SMPTE ST 2110 design that leverages uncompressed pristine q…

Cellphone Apps Put Control And Monitoring In The Palm Of Your Hand November 26^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Due to the flexibility and virtually unlimited access of the Internet Protocol, manufacturers of broadcast and production equipment have for years provided customers with the remote ability, via an HTML 5 browser interface, to monitor and control hardware devices via a smart phone, tablet or laptop. Vendors have now begun to…

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