Video, Multimedia and Technology Editors

LA JOLLA, CA (November 04, 2009)—

NewBlue, Inc. today launched Video Essentials III, the third and latest offering in its best-selling Video Essentials series of video effects and transitions plugins. NewBlue Video Essentials III provides highly-practical video tools designed to solve everyday production issues. The collection includes Rolling Shutter, Image Mapper, Edge Smoother, Split Screen, Gradient Tint, Spotlight and three additional video effects plugins. more

Culver City Facility Completes All Shots in Stereoscopic 3D

Culver City, CA: Oct. 27, 2009… I.E. Effects completed key visual effects sequences for the highly-anticipated Michael Jackson concert film “This Is It.” While the theatrical release will be a standard 2D presentation, the Culver City-based postproduction facility delivered all of its VFX work in full stereoscopic 3D, opening the door for a stereoscopic version of the film in the future. Originally, the facility was contracted to produce 15 stereo 3D shots for Jackson’s widely-publicized concert tour, but following the untimely death of the King of Pop, the project was put on hold. The upcoming feature film, and the special edition Blu-ray that will follow it, allowed I.E. Effects to complete the project and fulfill their role in Michael Jackson’s final show. more

Diane Phelan, Rebecca Weiner, Jesse Johnson, Emily van Fleet, Jill Gorie, Scott Denney, Kristopher Lowe and DP Raoul Germain with Panasonic AG-HPX500. Credit:Ryan Mueller.

SECAUCUS, NJ (October 26, 2009) – Clear Blue Tuesday, a highly original cinematic response to the events of September 11, 2001, blends heightened narrative and original music to follow the lives of a group of New Yorkers over seven Septembers as they relearn their city and themselves. The full-length feature, which had its world premiere last month at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, was shot with two Panasonic AG-HPX500 P2 HD camcorders. more

Four students – one from each major region of the world – have been named first-place winners in the 2009 edition of the annual Kodak Film School Competition. The winners include: Chris Freilich from the American Film Institute in the United States; Hatuey Viveros from Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica in Mexico; Andrzej Krol from the Fachhochschule Dortmund in Germany; and Liu Yizeng from Beijing Film Academy in China. Now in its 10th year, the annual competition recognizes the creativity and talent of student cinematographers in the collaborative process of visual storytelling. more

Final Frame Post, a New York City based post production service provider announced that it provided the digital intermediate services for “Peter and Vandy,” a feature written and directed by Jay DiPeitro and based on his award-winning play. Peter and Vandy is about a young New York couple’s relationship that unfolds in a non-linear fashion and told in non-chronological order. It opened in limited release on Friday, October 9, 2009.

Will Cox, Final Frame Post co-founder and colorist, conformed, graded and digitally color corrected the material on their Digital Vision Nucoda Film Master system and Rising Sun Research’s CineSpace for color management. The data-centric workflow of the DI and the use of LUT’s, allowed frame-by-frame interaction and great control over the look of the feature ensuring precise calibration of the post production process. more

CHICAGO—Hybrid production studio Vitamin has teamed with DDB Chicago, on a multimedia campaign promoting the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF) in which the power of cinema is symbolized by the fleeting movements of a single human eye.

The unusual and highly affecting film consists almost entirely of a close-up of a woman’s eye as she gazes at a movie screen. The eye is shot in time-lapse and undergoes a panoply of emotions from laughter to tears while bathed in the projector’s reflected light. The festival’s logo—a stylized drawing of a female eye—appears at the end along with the tag, “take a deeper look.” more

(L) Royal Flush Festival Film Programmer Jim Muscarella & (R) “Automorphosis” Director Harrod Blank

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, October 21, 2009 – The Royal Flush Festival, an independent film, rock & roll, and underground art festival that took place October 15-19, handed out its custom-made “Skullie” Awards Monday night at Lower East Side burlesque hot spot The Slipper Room. The Slipper Room Dancers presented filmmakers with awards for the Jury and Audience award competitions, with live music by Fisherman’s Burlesque. These awards included the “One of a Kind” Award, which included unique art from Artists Ron English, Frank Kozik, Linsdey Kuhn & Tara McPherson. more

PHILADELPHIA, PA— When Director John Hillcoat wanted to create the post-apocalyptic world of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” which premiers nationwide November 25th, 2009, he chose DIVE as lead visual effects house for the skill and authenticity required to replicate the mood of the novel. more

Music 2 Hues

Enfield, Connecticut–October 20th, 2009 Music 2 Hues, a leading supplier of Production Music & Sound Effects to the, Film, Video, Animation, & Multimedia Industries, announced their newest Flagship CD title, “Solo Piano,” is now shipping worldwide. Solo Piano is now available on Audio CD, or it can be downloaded in Mp3 and WAV file formats. “This release satisfies the needs of our clients that have been asking for a CD of soft and emotional solo piano music beds, for all visual and multimedia support,” says Andy Wells, president of Music 2 Hues.

“Our updated Download Center offers our clients the ability to purchase individual tracks from all of our more

Mr. X created CG aircraft and some stunning cloudscapes for Mira Nair’s new film, Amelia.

Comprehensive Visual Effects for Film Biography of Aviation Pioneer

TORONTO: October 20, 2009… Mr. X, one of Canada’s leading creative visual effects houses, provided CG aerial scenes and other effects shots for AE Electra Productions’ Amelia, directed by Mira Nair. The film tells the story of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937 during her quest to become the first woman to fly solo around the globe. Starring two-time Oscar(r) award-winner Hillary Swank, Amelia includes numerous flight sequences designed and completed at Mr. X under the guidance of visual effects supervisor Wojciech Zielinski. more