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Sonic Synchronicity: Sound Editors Collaborate with Production Mixers
There are many instances when the partnership between these essential roles can bring an enhanced level of creativity to the final result.
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The Great Sequelization of Hollywood Film Part 3: Franchises, Blockbusters and Sagas
For over 100 years now, from episode to episode and sequel to sequel, whether serial or series or saga, these entertainments have drawn the interest and attention of vast audiences. […]
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Holding the Cloud in the Palm of Your Hand: Cutting Mobile with ProSpotting and TouchEdit
The ever-accelerating pace of technological development is literally putting the tools of post- production into the palms of our hands. The dramatic spread of Apple’s iPad has stirred software designers to create new applications combining Internet cloud technology and post-production work procedures. […]
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Cartoon Connection: Animation Editors Collaborate With Writers
Picture editors’ storytelling skills are tested in animation to a degree rarely demanded in any other kind of film. In live action, they may come on to a project to consult and prepare before production begins, but their work usually begins when the cameras start rolling and footage comes into the cutting room. […]
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Once Upon a Laugh in the West: Jeff Freeman Knows ‘A Million Ways to Die’
The show-business career of Jeff Freeman, A.C.E., began on a terrifying note. At the age of four, he was plucked by his stepfather, director Arthur Napoleon, to appear in a movie co-written by his mother, Jo. Man on the Prowl (1957) may not have made any “best of all- time” lists, but the experience was memorable enough for young Jeff. […]
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Pulling Emotional Triggers: Dody Dorn and the Impact of War in ‘Fury’
In his new film Fury, writer-director David Ayer takes a break from depicting violent crime to re-create a different kind of violence — that of warfare, as experienced by a five-man Sherman tank crew of the Second Armored Division near the end of World War II. […]
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Brilliant Mistakes: Editor Alex Hall and Director Oren Moverman on ‘Time Out of Mind’
“I am attracted to real stories about real people with real problems, without layered-on artificial drama or melodrama. This runs through almost everything I’ve done.” – Alex Hall […]
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Game of Drones: Good Kill
Drone warfare “is not only topical, or even controversial; it’s something that many of us are ambivalent about. […]
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The Wide, Wide West
When director Quentin Tarantino visualized his newest revenge Western, The Hateful Eight, as a 70mm widescreen production, sold it to distributor The Weinstein Company as such, and eventually upped the vintage widescreen aesthetic further by unearthing vintage lenses at Panavision and filming it in a format that Hollywood had not even attempted to use in almost 50 years — Ultra Panavision 70 — his intent was to make a piece of cinema that was a throwback to the rich, special- event theatrical spectacles of the analog era. […]
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The SFX Factor: Sound Editors and Re-recording Mixers Collaborate
Realizing a complex film or TV soundtrack takes a lot of care and attention, together with an advanced degree of collaboration between sound effects editors and re-recording mixers specializing in the same. […]
