Union Made
UNION MADE: Persistence Has Its Rewards
I will forever remember Donn Cambern’s advice over 30 years ago in that grocery store: “Persistence, determination and optimism.” […]
Year: 2009
Features
Sound Trek:
The Audio Explorations of Ben Burtt
The crack of Indiana Jones’ whip, the roar of an Imperial TIE fighter, the hum and crackle of clashing lightsabers, the voice of Wall-E speaking through his circuitry… all can be traced to the same source: sound designer extraordinaire Ben Burtt. […]
Features
Point of Entry: Apprentices and Edit Room Assistants Get Their Foot in Post-Production’s Door
Michael Pedraza is a man with a plan. While attending film school in Arizona, he decided that he would work with one of his two favorite editors—Michael Kahn, A.C.E., or Dylan Tichenor, A.C.E. Happily, he had an “in” in that his editing teacher’s claim to fame was that he had worked in Kahn’s editing room on Saving Private Ryan. […]
Features
Sundance Report: The Editor as Jack-of-All-Trades
It wasn’t so long ago, it seems, that editors spent most of their time in editing rooms simply editing. Many of us remember the days when we spliced pieces of film together, drew dissolve marks on the celluloid with grease pencil and projected our work picture with only a single audio track for directors, producers and studio executives. […]
Tail Pop
Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’
I was quite late to the game in discovering my love of cinema. I grew up on a steady diet of Tom and Jerry, old sci-fi shows and MTV videos. […]
This Quarter in Film History
Fruitless ‘Aran’
Documentarian Robert J. Flaherty was regarded by the poet e.e. cummings as “a god among men,” an opinion echoed by Orson Welles, who compared Flaherty to the poets Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau. […]
Book Reviews
Hidden Magic Revealed
‘The Invisible Cut: How Editors Make Movie Magic’ will stand as a deft introduction to the “invisible art” of editing and would prove highly useful as a textbook. […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: From Valley Girl to Emmy Winner
By the time I was 25, I was a store manager working long hours with little respect and a low level of creativity. I needed a change. […]
Features
‘Monsters’ Mash-Up: Joyce Arrastia and Eric Dapkewicz Pioneer 3-D Editing in Animation
DreamWorks Animation’s Monsters vs. Aliens may seem like your average CGI-animated blockbuster. But it’s more than that; it’s the first animated feature from DreamWorks that’s been planned, start to finish, as a stereo 3-D film. […]
Features
Klaatu Barada Nik-2:
Making the Earth Stand Still––Again
The alien Klaatu and his super-robot companion Gort have just made a return visit, touching down upon our planet again on December 12––when the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still was released worldwide by 20th Century Fox. […]
