Behind the scenes – Page 5
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Da 5 Bloods
With racial tensions heightening in the US, IBC365 goes behind the scenes of Spike Lee’s return to Vietnam, which sets the record straight on the white-washed reporting of the war and draws explicit parallels with the rise of fascism today.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Avatar 2 and 3
Avatar broke technical boundaries and commercial records in 2009 by bringing digital 3D into the light. Can history repeat itself with James Cameron’s four sequels currently in production?
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Isolation Stories
Coronavirus lockdown has put a halt to productions worldwide. But with Isolation Stories ITV Studios has created a novel drama shoot where the cast and crew maintained social distancing. Adrian Pennington investigates.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Dummy
Quibi launches with a new production method and tantalising creative storytelling possibilities.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: The Mandalorian’s groundbreaking virtual production
Massive LED walls and gaming engines were used to speed up the creative process and reduce the time needed in post-production for Disney+ Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian.
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Industry TrendsBroadcasting the Six Nations: Behind the scenes of the TV production
From machine learning-driven analytics to 4K drone, the broadcast of the 2020 Six Nations rugby tournament will feature some innovative kit as well as some tried and trusted technology.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Jojo Rabbit
Jojo, a normal kid with a vivid imagination, an absent father and a need to fit in, settles on a pretend friend in the form of Adolf Hitler. In filmmaker Taika Waititi’s World War II satire, this fantasy is experienced as a matter of fact. “The main thing was to ...
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: 1917
Meticulous military planning was required for Sam Mendes’ clock-ticking ‘one-shot’ war drama. Adrian Pennington talks to cinematographer Roger Deakins and sound mixer Stuart Wilson.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Cats
From page to stage to screen, how director Tom Hooper and DP Christopher Ross transmogrified the megamusical
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: 6 Underground
6 Underground sees Netflix hand one of its biggest ever budgets to director Michael Bay. Adrian Pennington speaks with cinematographer Bojan Bazelli about creating practical effects for Bay’s new Ryan Reynolds-starring action blockbuster.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: The Irishman
Martin Scorsese’s new crime drama sees the Goodfellas director reunite with Robert De Niro. Adrian Pennington spoke to Rodrigo Prieto about shooting a tale that spans six decades.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds started on the radio, but the sound is just as important in the latest small screen turn of the HG Wells classic. Adrian Pennington goes behind the scenes of the audio behind the BBC’s new TV adaptation.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Diego Maradona
Editor Chris King and director Asif Kapadia tackle Argentina’s footballing enigma, Diego Maradona, in this documentary which comes to DVD this month
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: His Dark Materials
Any adaptation of Philip Pullman’s multi-layered fantasy His Dark Materials must decide how to represent the cast of animalistic ‘daemons’ which feature constantly throughout the story. Adrian Pennington spoke with key members of the VFX team to find out how.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Official Secrets
Telling the story with lighting, Official Secrets cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister BSC speaks to Alana Foster on how he worked with director Gavin Hood to depict the story of one woman’s moral conundrum.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Le Mans ‘66
James Mangold’s Le Mans ’66 - also known as Ford v Ferrari - looks at the iconic 24 Hours of Le Mans race. Cinematographer Phedon Papamichael talks about shooting emotion in the cold metal of motorsports
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Joker
Production designer Mark Friedberg and editor Jeff Groth explain how they mapped Manhattan to fit the warped and rotting mind of the clown’s alter ego.
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Industry TrendsBehind 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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Industry TrendsBehind 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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Industry TrendsBehind 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.
