All articles by Adrian Pennington – Page 19
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Industry Trends
Behind the scenes: The Goldfinch
Complex, dense and 800 pages long, the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt has become this year’s prestige cinematic literary adaptation. John Crowley, who directed the adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel Brooklyn, has taken on the task and given himself the best possible shot at pulling it ...
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Behind the scenes: Gemini Man
Ang Lee chose to shoot his upcoming sci-fi film Gemini Man, starring Will Smith, in HFR. Editor Tim Squyres explains how the director fell in love with higher frame rates.
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Brain waves: How content could be as individual as a fingerprint
As consumers demand more personalisation, metadata about individual users is emerging as a key resource for the industry, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Behind the scenes: The Lion King
The animated remake of the Disney classic employed a live-action film crew that could work inside virtual reality using traditional camera equipment to set up and execute shots in the animated world the same way they would be achieved in the real world.
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Behind the scenes: The Man in the High Castle
With the fourth and final season of Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle set to launch, Adrian Pennington chats to cinematographer Gonzalo Amat about creating the show’s dystopian noir look.
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TV is OTT
With the VoD market about to go into overdrive, the fundamental building blocks of OTT service provision have to match or exceed that of pay-TV.
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8K moves up the agenda
We are currently in a transition from 1080p to UHD, so why is the industry intent on pushing 8K?
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Premier League: VAR, True View cameras and piracy
In the second part of IBC365’s look at coverage of the coming English Premier League season, Adrian Pennington writes on the impact VAR and piracy will have on the League.
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Premier League 2019: Amazon and HDR to debut
With the new Premier League season set to kick off, Adrian Pennington looks at the major innovations behind the broadcast of Football’s biggest league.
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Compression the silver bullet for making 4K and 8K fly
As the industry casts its eyes beyond 4K, Adrian Pennington asks if VVC is the silver bullet that will enable 8K streaming
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Executive Interviews
Behind the Scenes: Toy Story 4
Pixar director of photography Patrick Lin explains how he brings a live-action filmmaking approach to computer animation.
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Executive Interviews
Craft Leaders: Lee Smith, Editor
Editing films is “very instinctual”, says Oscar winning editor Lee Smith
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How AI is reinventing visual effects
AI/ML and deep learning is having a huge impact in computer graphics research with potential to transform VFX production.
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Executive Interviews
Behind the scenes: Neither Wolf Nor Dog
Scottish filmmaker Steven Lewis Simpson on how he overturned conventional wisdom in making, marketing and distributing his Native American movie from the ground up.
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Executive Interviews
Behind the scenes: Men in Black: International
The MIB reboot opened last week. IBC365 goes behind the scenes with VFX Supervisor Alessandro Ongaro to find how he created a world with aliens living on Earth.
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Executive Interviews
Craft leaders: Paul Greengrass, Director
The director of Captain Phillips, United 93 and The Bourne Supremacy has condemned nepotism that holds back the UK’s film industry.
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Executive Interviews
Catch-22: How it was shot
American Society of Cinematographers’ (ASC) Martin Ruhe captures the insane heat of George Clooney’s satirical anti-war serialisation of classic Joseph Heller novel Catch-22.
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Planet-scale AR in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Niantic says Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will bring unprecedented scale to AR gaming. It could also provide a glimpse into the future of entertainment.
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Executive Interviews
Craft Leaders: Polly Morgan, ASC BSC
For some cinematographers, it is the technical aspects that make them fall in love with the role. But for Polly Morgan, who’s credits include Legion, Inception and 6 Balloons, it was her love of colour.
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Craft Leaders: Asif Kapadia, director
In his latest documentary, director Asif Kapadia unearths the complex and sympathetic man behind the enigmatic Argentine football legend.