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News Review By Jake Young
Technicolor behind Spike Island: Technicolor’s producers, editors and colourists were at the heart of the film Spike Island. Editor Jaime Leonard took on all aspects of editing work, while senior colourist Dan Coles carried out the DI Grade. “The director and DOP’s brief was to create rich, vibrant and filmic images throughout,” said Dan Coles. “We wanted to be warm and bold with the colours, saturation levels and contrast, while at the same time maintaining a sense of mood for some of the darker scenes using cooler colours in the spectrum. We used vignettes, grads and shapes to enhance mood and detail, and allowed certain colours to pop using secondary colour correction.”
www.technicolor.com
Danni Lowinski on T-TAP To cut each episode of German comedy drama Danni Lowinski, Berlin-based editor Knut Hake relies on an integrated workflow that includes an Apple iMac, Final Cut Pro X, AJA’s T-TAP Thunderbolt-powered adapter, PROMISE R4 RAID Storage with Thunderbolt Technology and a professional external monitor. “T-TAP is a quiet, powerful device that fits nicely into my workflow. It’s affordable, delivers high-quality monitoring and is overall a great fit for what I do,” he shared. “It’s also flexible in that it can be set up in almost any editing suite within a short time frame. All I have to do is plug in via Thunderbolt and out through HDMI, load the drive and I’m ready to edit in just a few minutes.”
www.aja.com
BBC makes Our Girl BBC Studios and Post Production has completed the post production for BBC One’s new prime time one-off drama, Our Girl. The offline edit was completed at the BBC Elstree facility using Avid Media Composer, with some of the editing done on location. The cut was then passed to the team at BBC Television Centre where it was graded on Nucoda Film Master. The programme’s high- end visual effects were created using Autodesk Smoke at BBC
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Studios and Post Production’s Charlotte Street post production facility, where the sound design and dubbing was also crafted in Avid Pro Tools.
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Pinewood draws TriCaster Pinewood Studios has purchased a NewTek TriCaster 855 live production solution to streamline the production of three weekly prize draw results programmes for The UK National Lottery’s YouTube channel and social media sites. For the studio-based Lotto and Thunderball shows, a PC-based graphics system linked to the ball machines and the TriCaster automatically produces a graphic for each ball and triggers the correct voice-over to announce which ball has been drawn. An operator vision mixes the camera feeds and graphics, and then creates a second pass to add additional sound bites before preparing the file for export and upload to YouTube. The EuroMillions draws come from a satellite feed from Paris. The clean feed goes directly into Pinewood’s TriCaster at full frame and the system concurrently applies a crop to remove the Paris show’s graphics, saving time for the editor who can then easily apply local graphics and voice-overs before exporting.
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Slovis selects Schneider In shooting AMC’s Breaking Bad ASC cinematographer Michael Slovis often relies on the True-Pols filters from Schneider. “On Breaking Bad, we have a few iconic images,” he explained. “I simply won’t shoot these sequences without Schneider’s True-Pols. I work with the locations department, art department and directors to ensure that we are in a position to ‘max pola’ the sky for any day exterior. These filters really help define the beauty of that sky, and if we are lucky enough to have those gorgeous New Mexico clouds, the filter brings them out in all their glory.”
www.schneideroptics.com
wTVision holds cards wTVision’s team used Poker Stats CG to provide graphics coverage on the final of the
Pokerstars.it tournament, in Saint Vincent, Italy. The service provided to PokerStars included project development (the integration of PokerStats CG with the RFID table and cards), the implementation of the official graphics, and the operational service during the live broadcast. One wTVision operator used Poker Stats CG to cover every single action in the final table and provide instant odds and pot sizes based on the live action. The RFID system recognises the cards (which are identified by tags) and the graphics are shown automatically. With this system
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the graphics operator is free to analyse game trends and detailed statistics and also to provide general interest graphics like leaderboards, global chip counts, and in-depth analysis of the player’s performance. At the end of the tournament, which was streamed live all over the world, Alex Fraser, wTVision’s CTO, commented: “This seems to be the future of live poker events.
It is much cheaper than using hole cams for each player and it proved to be 100% accurate in reading the cards.”
www.wtvision.com
Gold on Eye For The Incredible Mr Goodwin, chronicling the feats of the daredevil Jonathan Goodman, director Jon Richards utilised the new Gold Spectrum Wireless Kit and AB Direct VU handheld confidence monitor/COFDM diversity receiver from Anton/Bauer, powered by the company’s DIONIC HC batteries. For the show’s season finale, Richards and his production team utilised multiple cameras to help capture the daredevil’s escape from one of the London Eye’s capsules. “The technical challenge for me was how could I see what is going on when I’m stuck in the capsule with the stunt team — 60m off the ground with my cameras a great distance away,” said Richards. “Anton/Bauer sorted me out with this new monitoring system, which included the Gold Spectrum Wireless Kit and AB Direct VU monitor which was lightweight and easy to carry around.”
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Cool Devices: Location sound recordist Chris Watson turned to Sound Devices’ 744T Recorder and MixPre Compact Field Mixer for his work on Frozen Planet. “The ease of connectivity of the 744T is great,” said Watson. “When I want to record content, I can burn the files to CompactFlash and the internal hard drive, which gives you the confidence you need when working in these types of places, thousands of miles from any sort of base that your data is secure. The MixPre has that rich sounding analogue quality to it, which I like. It also allows me to get a clean analogue front end from the hydrophones, because the signals are so loud.”
www.sounddevices.com
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