From the Editor: An Exciting Time For The Industry
If you’ve picked up this issue of Markee while attending the 2013 NAB Show (April 6-11, 2013), then allow me to welcome you to the show and to Las Vegas. This is an exciting time for the industry, and this show is the event of the year.
Read more...Making TV: Shooting The Dark Side
Many critics call Scandal ridiculous but then recommend it, saying that it is also great fun. Part of the fun is the way Cinematographer Oliver Bokelberg, ASC, shoots the fast-talking, fast-paced show about a Washington, D.C., firm of fixers that make scandals – the dark side of life in the nation’s capital – go away.
Read more...Making Commericals: What Color Is The Music?
Commercials for The Gap always get the music right.
Read more...From the Editor: Southeast Success Stories
As a Georgia native and proud Southerner, I am thrilled at the thriving film, television and music production industry that has developed in the Southeast. As I have stated before in these pages, this region is many things to many people. To some, it is the heart of religious and political conservatism; to others, it is a growing economic force and the headquarters for many of the world’s largest companies. But to filmmakers, the Southeastern United States is a painterly landscape of white-sand beaches, majestic mountains, dense forests and foreboding swamplands that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
Read more...Making TV: Making Grimm Faces
Marshall Adams shoots Wesen monsters. But he is not a Grimm. Working with visual effects experts, Grimm Cinematographer Marshall Adams, ASC, lensed eight of 15 episodes shot so far in the second season of NBC’s hit police drama with a monstrous twist. Cinematographer Eliot Rockett alternates with Adams and handled the other seven episodes. Rocket also shot four of the last nine episodes in season one, alternating with Cort Fey.
Read more...Making Commercials: Ring of Fire
Most car commercials put viewers to sleep. A car drives down the road, first in this direction, then in that direction. When viewers have seen the car from every angle, cut to the logo.
Read more...Inside View: Douglas Sloan
Markee: What is the focus of Icontent?
Mr. Sloan: “My forte as a director is in the documentary realm, and our core strength as a company is storytelling. We were early pioneers of digital content and longer-form pieces and launched Icontent in 2001 to leverage our strength in that area and merge it with our TV commercial business. Icontent operates in parallel with the passion work I direct for Icontent Films.”
From the Editor: Music and Cinema
Recently, I had the pleasure of attending a performance by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO), but it wasn’t just any performance. To be clear, this group of talented musicians could bring the most knowledgeable and experienced symphony aficionados to their feet. But on this night, the ASO was playing the music of legendary composer and Academy Award winner John Williams, and Mr. Williams was their conductor!
Read more...Making Commercials: Sunday Night on ABC
ABC wanted a promo for its fall Sunday night line-up equal to the strength of the programming, which includes Once Upon a Time, Revenge and 666 Park Avenue.
Read more...Inside View: Big Machine
Steve Petersen, Co-founder/Creative Director – Big Machine Design • Burbank, Calif.
Read more...Making TV: Shooting ‘MacGyver Medicine’
Royal Pains chronicles the exploits of Dr. Hank Lawson, a concierge doctor for the rich and poor in the Hamptons. Patients don’t visit concierge doctors; concierge doctors visit patients.
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- Phosphene Adds Trio of Industry Vets
- Rodeo FX Names Audrey Bolvin To The Position Of Producer, Advertising Department
- Animation Studio Buster Names Executive Creative Directors
- New Fill-Lite LED Lights to Launch at Cine Gear Expo 2013
- Hooligan Cuts IBM’s Branded Documentary Short on The World's Smallest Movie
