By the time film pioneer Georges Méliès made this only slightly exaggerated claim, the making and exhibition of narrative film was establishing itself as a business separate from the variety stage and lecture circuit. As more people visited storefront theatres to see moving picture stories, they watched the art and craft of editing evolving on screens right before their eyes. […]
When the curtain rises on “Hollywood’s Biggest Night,” which it will again on Sunday, February 24 this year, the global audience tunes in to watch the Academy Awards live. People are eager to see the stars, the fashion, the elegance, the glitter and the gold in real time. […]
Motion capture, or MoCap, is the technique of capturing a human actor’s physical performance and applying the captured data to a 3D computer-generated character so that it moves in the same convincing, life-like manner. […]
‘Welcome to Marwen’ is a Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures feature starring Steve Carell that takes place in the real world, as well as a world populated by dolls. It was released by Universal on December 21. […]
Despite being buried under various deadlines while cutting ‘The Orville,’ Seth MacFarlane’s sci-fi dramedy series that has its second season premiere in December on Fox, the show’s core editorial team still found time recently to convey the zeitgeist of what they consider to be an exceptionally collaborative editing room. […]
Zach Staenberg discusses the pressure of editing such eagerly awaited films, how he handled the huge numbers of visual effects shots, and the challenges he faced. […]
During production for ‘The Polar Express’ Multiple creative processes, including editing, storyboarding, writing and designing, were occurring simultaneously. […]
I started editing quarter-inch reels of recorded audio sessions, then got bumped up to an assistant working with film on a Moviola. I was surprised by how much I liked it.
“There is an element of gravitas in Thor that one doesn’t necessarily associate with a movie based on a comic book,and this is juxtaposed with laugh-out-loud humor. The ability to juggle those two tones is one of Kenneth Branagh’s great strengths, and is somewhat unusual for this kind of movie.” – Paul Rubell, A.C.E. […]
Paramount Pictures released this new Charlotte’s Web on December 15, just in time for the holidays. […]
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