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Friday, Apr. 20, 2012
Postproduction & Visual Effects: Awards Show Circuit/Film Festival Season Reflections
With the awards season and a good portion of the festival circuit in the industry's collective rearview mirror, it's time to reflect on those under-the-radar contributors spanning postproduction and visual effects who played key roles in the success of showcased films. While these artisans are too...
Friday, Feb. 17, 2012
The Road To Oscar: Directors' Takes
Director Alexander Payne publicly expressed his happiness over a recent Academy Award nomination--and it wasn't for any of his three this year for Best Director, Best Picture (as a producer along with Jim Burke and Jim Taylor) or Best Adapted Screenplay (with Nat Faxon, Jim Rash) for The...
Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012
Cinematographers & Cameras: Reflections On Work, Recognition From Peers
One cinematographer has earned his first Oscar and ASC Award nominations. Another is nominated for both awards for the second consecutive year--for films from the same director. And a third lensed a short film which is in the Oscar hunt and just came off of a high-profile Sundance Film Festival win...
Friday, Feb. 17, 2012
Hot Locations: Oscar On Location
The Descendants --Oscar-nominated this year for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Leading Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing--has been lauded for its mesh of dramatic and comedic elements. Yet there's another genre that isn't as generally acknowledged, what its director Alexander Payne...
Friday, Feb. 17, 2012
Visual Effects & Animation: The Awards Show Circuit
The road to the red carpet isn't carpeted. Instead it's often an uncharted path--or sometimes there's no path to begin with, necessitating that filmmakers construct one to meet assorted creative and technical challenges. So SHOOT looked to gain further insights into the path taken and its journey,...
Friday, Feb. 17, 2012
Visual Effects & Animation: Bumble Beelines Its Way To Top Of Year's First Quarterly Chart
"Bumble-Less" is more. Indeed in the case of this client-direct Bing spot, intentionally going for "less" from a technical standpoint--even during a stretch when stacked up against visually sophisticated Super Bowl commercials--proved to be the fast track leading to the top of SHOOT's first...
Friday, Feb. 17, 2012
Visual Effects & Animation: SHOOT Top Ten Chart
Have a look-see at the quarter's leading VFX and Animation spots, which showcase a wide range of genres, looks and approaches. See related article here. SHOOT Winter Top 10 Visual Effects & Animation Chart Title Visual Effects/Animation Agency Production 1 Bing's "Bumble-Less" (see video below...
Friday, Jan. 20, 2012
Industry Outlook: "All That Jazz" On 2012 Playlist
Peter Allen's live version of "Everything Old is New Again" can be heard on the soundtrack to Bob Fosse's 1979 critically acclaimed film All That Jazz. And in a sense that tune could serve as a continuing anthem for 2012 as technology has breathed new life into media for which premature obituaries...
Friday, Dec. 16, 2011
The Gold Standard Rises In 2011: The Best Work of the Year
As 2011 draws to a close, it's time for reflection on many fronts, including assessing what work was among the year's most worthwhile creatively and which in the process managed to strike a responsive chord with viewers. Determining the year's "best" is indeed a highly subjective proposition so...
Friday, Dec. 16, 2011
Turning The Corner: Industry Reflections On 2011
Reflecting on 2011 can bring both a sigh of relief and a rush of excitement, and the two feelings aren't mutually exclusive. Both are tied to the notion that after persevering, better things could be just around the corner--and that's not entirely due to looking at the industry landscape through...