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| | | | BRW USA’s The Salto Brothers’ Smooth Moves For Nissan
BRW USA, Los Angeles directing duo The Salto Brothers pave roads with a simple joyride in the stylishly visual new :30 “Bad Roads” for Nissan out of TBWAG1, TBWAMoscow. Produced by Standard Films for the European markets, the spot features a perfectly smooth forest road being paved instantly as a man accelerates through in a Nissan Almera.
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| | | | 2013 AICP Next Awards Winners Announced
The AICP Next Awards debuted last night at the NYU Skirball Center, kicking off AICP Week 2013 – a celebration of advertising in the motion image, which will also include the AICP Directors Lecture Series, as well as the premiere of the AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the American Commercial on the evening of June 6th at The Museum of Modern Art. The Next Awards, now in its seventh year, were presided over by Bob Greenberg, Founder, Chairman and CEO of R/GA.
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| | | | "Room At The Top" – Dataton’s Watchout Powers London’s The View From The Shard
Event Communications and DJ Willrich combine to give unique flavour to tallest viewing platform from any building in Western Europe
Deploying multimedia technology in way that enhances a naturally stunning visual experience is no easy task. Yet that is exactly what Event Communications and systems integrator DJ Willrich (DJW) have done at London’s The View from The Shard – utilising the features of Dataton WATCHOUT™multi-image display and presentation software. For this project, WATCHOUT was provided by Dataton’s UK Premium Partner, Mirage Associates.
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| | | | HIFI Project Provides Music & Sound Design For Visually Compelling Starz Re-Brand Campaign
Collaborating with ad agency Fallon, HiFi Project is the creative force behind the music and sound design for the new, visually compelling re-brand for cable network STARZ. According to HiFi Creative Director/Composer Paul Robb, this was the most extensive sonic branding campaign to date for the company, which is better known for working on commercial and advertising campaigns such as new spots for Gap, Jaguar, and Chevy.
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| | | | Much Aloha Found At AlphaDogs
The documentary film E Haku Inoa: To Weave A Name, follows filmmaker Christen Marquez on her personal journey to reconnect with her estranged mother and find out the meaning of her 60-letter-long Hawaiian name.
Hawaiian naming practices are steeped in tradition and carry many different meanings. Origins of the name given at birth can range from dream or spiritual inspirations to family names that are passed down, or an event that happens around the birth of the child. The documentary film E Haku Inoa: To Weave A Name, follows filmmaker Christen Marquez on her personal journey to reconnect with her estranged mother and find out the meaning of her 60-letter-long Hawaiian name. The story touches on Hawaiian culture and the struggle to support traditions in a world where there are many forces working to erase them.
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| | | | Colorworks Aids in 4K Restoration of “Richard III”
A few months before the bones of Richard III were discovered below a parking lot in Leicester, England, the infamous British monarch was the focal point of a very different type of reclamation project halfway around the world in Culver City, California. There, Colorworks, Sony Pictures’ digital intermediate facility, applied the finishing touches to an exhaustive 4K restoration of "Richard III", Laurence Olivier’s 1955 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play.
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| | | | Loyalkaspar Sparks Fuse Network Rebrand
Entertainment Branding Agency Creates Visceral, Multi-Platform Identity Perfectly In Tune With Fuse Audience
Just about everything has changed in music and pop culture since 2008 when Loyalkaspar last rebranded the national music network Fuse. What hasn’t changed is the network’s commitment to music and music fans – and its trust in the multi-disciplined Entertainment Branding Agency led by David Herbruck and Beat Baudenbacher.
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| | | | Cinerama Restores Films with Boris Continuum Complete’s Flicker Fixer
BCC Flicker Fixer Removes Flicker, Emulsion Blotching, Artifacting, and Image Weaving
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated VFX and workflow technology for video and film, today announced that David Strohmaier, Restoration Producer for Cinerama, Inc., is using Boris Continuum Complete’s Flicker Fixer in Adobe After Effects to remove flicker, emulsion blotching, and artifacting during the film restoration process.
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| | | | Sound and the Films of MPSE Honoree Ang Lee
Next Sunday, the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) will present director Ang Lee with its annual Filmmaker Award. The honor recognizes Lee for a body of work (which includes such films as Brokeback Mountain; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Ice Storm) remarkable for its diversity, visual and auditory brilliance and emotional storytelling. Lee’s most recent film Life of Pi has been widely praised as a cinematic marvel and for its poetic telling of the tale of a young Indian man marooned in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger.
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Soundelux's Wilhoit Recreates Sonic World for End of Watch
 Michael D. Wilhoit, supervising sound editor at Soundelux, collaborated with director David Ayers on the sound track for End of Watch, a critically acclaimed police thriller that takes viewers into the lives of two policemen who become the targets of a dangerous Mexican drug cartel. The movie is stylistically "found footage," and Wilhoit's challenge was to create a soundtrack that matched the movie's gritty immediacy and realism.
Feature, People / Interview by Debra Kaufman on 10/12/2012 | | | | |
| | | | Audio Professionals
A Look at Alan Parsons Art & Science of Sound Recording
 If you are one of the many people working in film and broadcast that has been wanting to sharpen your skills in audio production -- or just become more aware of its principles and dynamics -- Creative COW's Ronald Lindeboom points to a series that is near to guaranteed to expand your working knowledge of audio.
Review by Ronald Lindeboom on 12/30/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Audio Professionals
sE Electronics' USB2200a and Reflexion Filter
 Sam McGuire demonstrates the quality and effectiveness of two sE Electronics' products. The USB2200a is a USB/XLR hybrid microphone which is extremely low noise (I didn't believe it until I heard it.) The "Reflexion Filter" is an acoustics baffle used to create a studio environment in any room. For a combined price of under $600 this is a relatively affordable, portable, and high quality solution for all of your VO needs.
Review, Tutorial, Video Tutorial by Sam McGuire on 11/08/2011 | | | | |
| | | | Audio Professionals
Sound Design for the Web
 The creative minds behind the web's existential comedy series "Coma, Period." talk about their craft and the challenges of designing the sounds heard inside a character's subconscious.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview by Rick Castaneda on 09/21/2010 | | | | |
| | | | Audio Professionals
The Journey To A Nepali Recording Studio
 There aren't many straight lines leading to Nepal, and not many once you arrive, either. Here is an inside look at the challenges and triumphs of running an A/V studio in the Himalayas.
Feature, People / Interview by Jiggy Gaton on 12/21/2009 | | | | |
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ADR: Hollywood Dialogue Recording Secrets
 Correcting dialogue is one of the most important parts of the old saying, fix it in post. They're part of a process called ADR -- Additional Dialogue Recording, or Automated Dialogue Replacement -- that has been going on since movies had audio, and is still being done today, from the smallest indie films to the biggest blockbusters. Here's an overview of the world of ADR, some of the Cows who are working in this field, and where to go when you are ready to ADR to your own productions.
Feature by Cowdog on 03/03/2009 | | | | |
| | | | Audio Professionals
Real-world Mixing with the PSC DV ProMix 6
 PSCs DV ProMix 6 has everything you need for multi-channel audio mixing, even on a DV-sized budget. Brandt Sleeper takes you through its ins and outs, and shows how it stands up to the rigors of real-world production.
Review by Brandt Sleeper on 01/19/2008 | | | | |
| | | | Audio Professionals
Recording Multi-cam Audio
 Editing multi-cam audio is a hot NLE feature. Maybe youre ready to shoot the video -- but are you ready to capture multiple audio sources for your multi-cam shoot? Brandt Sleeper offers tips for multi-cam audio shoots, from ENG to the front row.
Tutorial by Brandt Sleeper on 12/27/2007 | | | | |
| | | | Audio Professionals
Audio Mixing for DV and HDV: PSC DV Promix 3
 Brandt Sleeper shows how PSCs DV ProMix 3 will help your DV and HDV recordings sound better than ever -- bars and tone, calibration, for one or several cameras. Could this be the field mixer youve been waiting for?
Review by Brandt Sleeper on 12/15/2007 | | | | |
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Oscar nominated Soundelux Supervising Sound Editors Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis & team take the audience of "Drive" on an aural trip.
