Amazon Studios and ARRI have collaborated on an exclusive, in-depth video featurette about The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, analysing the cinematography, VFX, lighting, and cloud-based workflow of a key sequence: the eruption of Mount Doom. The Rings of Power was captured in large format with ARRI’s ALEXA Mini LF and ALEXA … Read more
Amazon Studios has announced the opening of Stage 15, its new virtual production stage, and formation of the new Amazon Studios Virtual Production (ASVP) department. The stage combines two former stages to accommodate an LED wall that is 80 feet in diameter and 26 feet tall. The first feature film to shoot on the new … Read more
THE ROAD TO FREEDOM Ambitious 10-part Amazon series The Underground Railroad sees James Laxton ASC and Barry Jenkins unite once again, this time to tell a powerful story rooted in the history of the American South and atrocities of slavery. Cinematography with a unique tonal quality and authenticity documents courageous Cora’s epic journey as she … Read more
Production of the new Lord of the Rings television series will move to the UK from New Zealand, Amazon Studios confirmed. The fantasy epic is set thousands of years before the events in JRR Tolkien’s books ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’. It is a major blow for New Zealand’s entertainment industry where … Read more
13 new apprentices start training as post-production technical operators as part of a UK Screen Alliance apprentices programme made possible with the support of Amazon Prime Video UK. Over the next 12 months they will receive 9 weeks of off-the-job training at London South Bank University (LSBU), as well as on-the-job experience with post production … Read more
Cinematographer Trevor Forrest discusses combining the Millennium DXL camera with Primo 70 optics for the series Tell Me Your Secrets. The 10-episode series Tell Me Your Secrets interweaves the stories of three characters whose troubled pasts have set their moral compasses adrift and their destinies on a collision course. Following a stint in prison that stemmed from … Read more
Cinematographer James Hawkinson won the 2016 Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography On A Single-Camera Series, for the first season of Amazon Studios’ The Man in the High Castle. “To receive this recognition for the show is a great honour, and it’s a fantastic achievement for the whole crew,” Hawkinson said. “I’m delighted to … Read more