Documentary crew films Albatross stunt over Manhattan

by | Nov 10, 2016 | Sin categoría |

It’s not a common sight, but it happened on 4 November: A rare Grumman Albatross flying up the Hudson River somewhere between the Statue of Liberty and Battery Park, with a man standing up in the bow hatch, arms outstretched against a 150kt headwind. If you happened to be standing in Lower Manhattan on that fine autumn day, you might have been among the witnesses standing, mouths agape at the unusual scene. “People stopped in their tracks on Battery Park,” Dirk Braun told FlightGlobal in an interview. As Braun explained, the flight was part of a scene for a documentary film called “Flying Boat”, a love letter to the class of vehicles that blend the nautical with the aeronautical. Braun was the man standing in the bow hatch. A Beechcraft Bonanza flew chase, with a cinematographer capturing the scene. After circling around the Statue of Liberty, the 65-year-old Albatross flew north of the Hudson. Braun moved into position, crawling into a sleeping birth located under the cockpit control panel. Just beyond, a hatch opens up in the nose. It’s normally used for a crewmember to lay anchor after the Albatross comes to a stop after a water landing. Braun’s film crew had another idea. The documentary will continue filming the rest of the year and into...

YouTube adds HDR technology to make videos more vibrant

by | Nov 8, 2016 | video editing |

High dynamic range (HDR) clips feature a wider range of colours and a greater number of brightness levels between black and white. This boosts contrast and can make images seem more detailed. However, users will require compatible screens to see the improvements. And HDR-encoded videos may also look odd when played back in normal mode. While YouTube is offering one of the first ways for the public to share videos in the new format, professional streaming services including Netflix and Amazon Video have offered HDR films and television programmes for several months. The Xbox One S and PlayStation 4 video game consoles also recently added HDR support. “YouTube’s move is a big vote of confidence in HDR,” said David Mercer, from the technology consultancy Strategy Analytics. “It really is all about whiter whites and blacker blacks – it sounds corny, but when you’ve seen a really good demo, it can be quite spectacular. “But we will all need HDR screens to enjoy it.” Many of the latest 4K televisions support the innovation, which can help water appear to glisten, stars to sparkle and generally adds “pop” to footage. But it is still relatively rare to find HDR-capable computer monitors or laptop displays. Creators will also need access to compatible video cameras and editing programs. Apple’s Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid all added support for HDR video formats in recent months. But consumer-orientated software, including YouTube’s own web-based Editor, have yet to do so. To ensure those without compatible displays do not miss out, YouTube will, by default, play a standard dynamic range (SDR) version of...
Sky Sports camera angle: Why do some home grounds look different on TV this season?

Sky Sports camera angle: Why do some home grounds look different on TV this season?

by | Nov 3, 2016 | sport film |

Liverpool, one of those teams whose games have incurred plenty of complaints, made considerable upgrades to their stadium over the summer with work extending over into the Premier League season. The Merseyside club had to request special dispensation to switch their opening home fixture of the season against Burnley to Turf Moor because the stadium would not be ready. However, they have now expanded the capacity to more than 54,000 but it does appear to have affected the way the game looks on TV. The camera gantry is now significantly further from the pitch and appears to be higher. It means viewers have a much more birdseye view of the pitch and the camera angle catches more of the play. However, many Sky Sports viewers have complained that the cameras are too far away, making the game difficult and uncomfortable to watch.  Some have even compared it to playing FIFA – but without the ability to go into the settings and change it. Similar complaints were made at the beginning of the season when Premier League champions Leicester lost against Hull at the KCOM Stadium and during Liverpool’s bore draw with Manchester United at...

What makes a succesfull film trailer?

by | Nov 1, 2016 | commercial movie |

Sound. Sound is something that is very important in all trailers. It represents the genre of the film and can be used to emphasise certain parts in the trailer. In particular action films use sound in a very clever way in trailers. Diegetic sound can be used in the form of explosions and gunshots representing the genre. Non-diegetic music is also often used to portray the genre also. In the trailer for ‘The Avengers’ that you can see on https://goo.gl/604yd5 usessound from dialogue and diegetic explosions to non-diegetic music. The action genre of this film is represented in the song playing throughout which is ‘We’re in this together’ by Nine Inch Nails. This song is well known and the rock genre compliments the content of the action filled trailer Camera. Different camera shots and angles are used in trailers for different reasons. A trailer that shows optimum use of camera is ‘The Host’. • It begins with an extreme long shot of a view of earth from space. This has a large impact on the audience as it is so unusual to see this in a trailer because we are used to seeing them on earth. It also informs us that there will be a sci-fi element to the film. • This is then contrasted by an extreme close up shot of the main characters eye. But it is unusual because of the colours in her eye and this is an important feature of the film. Though at this point the audience are unsure of what this means Actors and Actress. Trailers can become a lot more successful if...

Inside Nat Geo’s incredible documentary mission to Mars

by | Oct 30, 2016 | documentary |

A spaceship is preparing to land on Mars when the crew notices that one of the thrusters isn’t firing. There is, as they say, a problem. But there’s no use telling Houston—by the time a distress message reaches home more than 30 million miles away, either the astronauts on board will be space dust or humanity will have become an interplanetary species. That’s the premise of National Geographic’s new series, Mars, which mixes documentary and speculation to tell the parallel stories of two groups: the fictional future explorers who will make that first journey, and the pioneers of today—scientists, astronauts, and strategists—who are blazing the trail. In the premier episode, for example, that white-knuckle landing scene is spliced with a look at Elon Musk’s SpaceX as engineers test a real retropropulsion landing system. Every piece of tech in the show was designed to accurately reflect the current scientific vision of how we’ll get to Mars—and to avoid the gaffes that have undermined recent films and invited the wrath of astrophysicist/space ombudsman Neil deGrasse Tyson. As executive producer Ron Howard puts it, “It’s not sci-fi!” (Indeed, President Obama has outlined a vision to send humans into Mars’ orbit by the mid-2030s.). Here’s how Mars envisions our red future. The six astronauts in Mars travel to their new home in a rocket called the Daedalus, and their ship is based on science that’s more than simply plausible—it’s coming, and fast. “This is technology that will probably be tested in the next five years,” executive producer Justin Wilkes says. The spacecraft is heavily inspired by SpaceX, but it also borrows design elements from NASA,...

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