Sweatpants Media Director/DP Jonny Zeller depends on the SmallHD AC7 7-inch field monitor to keep his clients comfortable with the look of the video he’s shooting. It always makes the images look really, really good,” he said. “So when an agency person walks over to the camera and looks at that monitor, it looks awesome. And that makes us all look good.”
Treehouse, the Dallas editorial boutique, has expanded its services through the hiring of motion graphics designer Jeff Vick and the addition of a new graphics design and production suite. The company will offer graphics both in tandem with editing and finishing, and as a standalone service.
The Motion Picture Sound Editors presented the 62nd MPSE Golden Reel Awards at a black-tie ceremony at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. Golden Reel Awards recognizing outstanding achievement in sound editing were presented in 20 categories encompassing feature films, long-form and short-form television, animation, documentaries and other media. Supervising sound editor Craig Henighan presented the annual MPSE Filmmaker Award to Darren Aronofsky. Re-recording mixer Greg Orloff presented the Career Achievement Award to Supervising Sound Editor Skip Lievsay.
More than 250 screen-used puppets, maquettes, paint test models, props, set pieces, and original concept and production art from Laika, the visionary animation studio behind the Academy Award-nominated films The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman, and Coraline, together generated sales of more than $1 million in Heritage Auctions’ The Art of Laika auction in Beverly Hills, California on February 12.
Hula Post Production provided editorial systems and support to Selma. The film, from Paramount Pictures, Pathé, and Harpo Films and director Ava DuVernay, chronicles the historic civil rights march led by Martin Luther King, Jr. in Alabama in 1965.
Wim Wenders' production company Neue Road Movies entrusted online artist Christian Tröger and SGO's Mistika at Arri Mitte to complete the post-production of Every Thing Will Be Fine.
The Dutch film A Single Life is an Academy Award nominee in the Animated Short Film category. Created by Job, Joris & Marieke, a Netherlands-based creative studio, A Single Life relied extensively on Maxon’s Cinema 4D as its central application to handle the complexities of 3D content creation including modeling, rigging, character animation, lighting, rendering and more.
Finishing services for Fox Searchlight Pictures’ The Grand Budapest Hotel, currently nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director (Wes Anderson), were provided by Burbank-based Modern VideoFilm.
The Motion Picture Sound Editors at the 62nd MPSE Golden Reel Awards, February 15 in Los Angeles will present Director/writer/producer Darren Aronofsky with their annual Filmmaker Award.
Colorfront will debut Interactive HFR Frame-Blending during HPA’s 2015 Tech Retreat, February 9-13 in Palm Springs, California. The company says it enables real time control over the motion blur of objects in an HFR sequence.
