Most Effective ClapperBoard / Brian Johnson Most Effective ClapperBoard / Brian Johnson BY: David A. Ellis It’s amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it. Brian Johnson left school at sixteen with just one 0-level but, through some lucky breaks and undoubted skill, rose to become pre-eminent in the field of special effects, … Read more
Panasonic has extended its digital cinematography line-up with the addition of the VariCam LT, a lightweight, compact camera offering many of the features of the 4K VariCam 35. The camera retains the ability to shoot in both 4K (4096 x 2160) and UHD (3840 x 2160) and features high sensitivity, low noise, wide dynamic range … Read more
fFigures published recently by the BFI show that UK independent films held their own in a record year for the UK box office, as independent films and blockbuster franchises, including UK-made Star Wars: The Force Awakens and SPECTRE, pulled in record cinema audiences in 2015. UK film production remained strong throughout the year, with UK … Read more
You’ve Been Framed Zac Nicholson /The Rack Pack You’ve Been Framed Zac Nicholson /The Rack Pack BY: Kevin Hilton Snooker can be entertaining and exciting. It can also get bogged down in long periods of tactical play. Perhaps because of both extremes it became a huge television phenomenon in the 1980s, and is has now … Read more
Cooke Optics will unveil the first of two zoom lenses at NAB 2016. The new Cooke 35-140mm Anamorphic/i zoom is a true, front Anamorphic with oval bokeh throughout zoom and focus. The patented optical design brings together a combination of attributes that allows shooting from very wide angle to telephoto, with a 4x zoom ratio. … Read more
British cinematographer Douglas Slocombe OBE BSC, who passed away on 22 February 2016, aged 103, was regarded as one of Britain’s greatest cinematographers – an award-winner, noted for his high contrast shooting style, and a key figure in both British and American filmmaking – from classic Ealing comedies such as Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949) … Read more
All this effort highlights the quality of productions created in different formats, whether film or digital, and the variety of skilled and talented people required to understand and maintain the cameras and equipment. Without film, cameras, lenses and, perhaps even more crucially, the facilities and experience in film processing labs to develop the negative, there … Read more
The use of 35mm film as an acquisition format for broadcast production could become an inadvertent casualty of Ultra HD (UHD) TV camera classifications following new guidelines issued by the DPP (Digital Production Partnership), writes Adrian Pennington. This has caused alarm bells to ring among the cinematographic community. Classifications of digital cameras made by the … Read more
Whilst they may not have come as a complete surprise, this year’s best cinematography wins by Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki AMC ASC at the Oscars, BAFTA and ASC Awards, for his work on Alejandro G. Inarritu’s The Revenant, certainly made history. Lubezki has become the first cinematographer to achieve the same trio of awards, over three consecutive … Read more
Ice Ice Baby Phedon Papamichael ASC, GSC / The Huntsman: Winter’s War Ice Ice Baby Phedon Papamichael ASC, GSC / The Huntsman: Winter’s War BY: Ron Prince Universal Pictures’ dark fantasy action-adventure movie, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, is the prequel/sequel to the studio’s $170m production Snow White And The Huntsman (2012). It is based on … Read more
Super friends Larry Fong ASC/Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice Super friends Larry Fong ASC/Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice BY: Trevor Hogg Until now Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman had never collaborated together on the big screen. However, the opposite is true for filmmaker Zack Snyder and Larry Fong ASC, who was the cinematographer responsible for Snyder’s … Read more
Lights, camera, abduction… Roger Deakins CBE BSC ASC /Hail, Caesar! Lights, camera, abduction… Roger Deakins CBE BSC ASC /Hail, Caesar! BY: Ron Prince Picture this. Hollywood. Early 1950s. Motion picture production is in full swing, with all manner of colourful productions and characters. Over at Capitol Pictures, rugged studio fixer Eddie Mannix is busily trying … Read more
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