UNION MADE: Following in Father’s Footsteps
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.
Visual Effects
May the Norse be with You:
‘Thor’s’ Paul Rubell
“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. […]
Fred M. Wilcox’s ‘Forbidden Planet’
Things are not always what they originally appear to be. Throughout life, our experiences shape our personal growth. […]
Dream Capturers: James Cameron’s Brave New World of Filmmaking
One thing James Cameron, A.C.E., will never be accused of is not having big enough dreams. It’s a good thing he writes them down. […]
Crafting Cinema in the Third Dimension
Bernard Mendiburu’s book contains the requisite technical information about stereoscopic perception and its relation to cinema. […]
L’Arrivée du 3D
The book is a thorough, precise, comprehensive and deeply revealing analysis of its subject. […]
‘Charlotte’s Web’ Spinners: Editorial Team Weaves an Anthropomorphic Menagerie
Paramount Pictures released this new Charlotte’s Web on December 15, just in time for the holidays. […]
Driving that Train: Editorial Engineers Power ‘Polar Express’
During production for ‘The Polar Express’ Multiple creative processes, including editing, storyboarding, writing and designing, were occurring simultaneously. […]
Zach Staenberg on The ‘Matrix’ Trilogy
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. […]