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Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 4:16PM "So yesterday was met with the news that Final Cut Pro X was finally available and like someone waiting outside the famous PT Barnum museum in New York City, I plunked down my $299 to download the software and ensure that the information I had gotten over the past few months was correct. I was wrong. It was worse." To read the complete review by Walter Biscardi, click here.
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 6:44AM "In "Scenes from the Suburbs," directed by Spike Jonze, armed troops patrol communities at war with each other. Music by the Grammy-winning band Arcade Fire forms a soundtrack, but the band doesn't appear on screen. Instead, Mr. Jonze cast a handful of Texas teenagers who helped improvise dialogue for the script. "Scenes" premiered at the recent South by Southwest Film Festival—it's 30 minutes long...So out of the ashes, with cheap new tools, a growing number of music acts and directors are trying to do something more ambitious: change the medium itself. " To read the complete WaSJ article, written by John Jurgensen, click here.
music video, video production in production news Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 8:38AM "Today’s quiz: What company derives 96 percent of its revenue from advertising, has a video platform that is currently negotiating with the National Basketball Association, a movie studio and various celebrities, and is developing a subscription service that would be plug-and-play for publishers and consumers the world over. Time Warner? News Corporation? Viacom? Nope. Google." To read the entire NYTIMEs article, written by David Carr, click here.
mobile video, online video, video production in production news Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 9:16AM "Guillermo del Toro has a new movie-making home base. Mr. del Toro — whose directing career is white hot despite leaving the helm of “The Hobbit” – and three partners have opened a boutique studio in Marina del Rey, Calif., that they hope will help the business of “transmedia” storytelling. Called Mirada, the new company “will look beyond what the market is doing right now to where it will be in 10 years,” Mr. del Toro said." To read the entire NY Times post written by Brooks Barnes, click here.
multimedia, transmedia, video production in production news Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 7:21AM "Couch potatoes of America, listen up. Congress may be just days away from turning down the volume on ear-splitting TV.
The Commercial Advertising Loudness Mitigation, or CALM, Act follows rules set last year by a United Nations body in Switzerland on how to measure and clip broadcast volumes. The U.S. bill, inspired by decades of consumer complaints, should finally ban TV ads that blare louder than the programs they interrupt.
California Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo, who sponsored the bill, says it is the most popular she has pushed in her 18 years in Congress. "If I'd saved 50 million children from some malady, people would not have the interest that they have in this," she says." To read the entire WSJ article, written by Daniel Michaels & Elizabeth Williamson, regarding '-12dB please: Congress moves to regulate sound levels of TV spots...', click here.