Today we received word that Foul Water, Fiery Serpent was honored with 5 awards at the Los Angeles Reel Film Festival! Wow! We are truly humbled by the recognition for the entire team! Foul Water was honored with the following awards: Feature Documentary: 1st Place. Best Director: Gary Strieker Best Score / Soundtrack: Patrick Belden …
Every Friday I like to either take the staff out to lunch or order lunch in for everybody. It just makes it fun and this week, we went bowling! Yes, we finally put the Wii-motes down and traded them in for the real 14lb bowling balls in a real live bowling alley. Wait, scratch that, …
Can’t believe how quickly things move along when you have folks who really know what they’re doing. Last week was a flurry of interior activity with rough plumbing, electrical and HVAC all happening simultaneously. They went so fast, now I’m the holdup for the next step. We need to get all our A/V cable in …
If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ll know that we installed an incredible Ethernet based SAN back in December of 2008. It’s the Final Share SAN system from Maxx Digital which features some ethernet wizardry from the folks at Small Tree Electronics. We’ve been pushing the heck out of this system with two feature …
Really proud to announce the completion of our latest project produced in partnership with Cielo Productions and Producer Gary Strieker. Medical textile company, Vestergaard Frandsen was looking for a special way to celebrate their 50th Anniversary. They didn’t just want to spend a lot of money on a party, a company trip, etc… They decided …
Made our last payment on the framing today and all of the “quick and easy” work is now pretty much completed. The framing team did an amazing job and I’m very thankful for all their hard work. My buddy Jeanna and her family came by for the “skeleton tour.” A look into our kitchen / …
Went in today to meet with the electrician and check out the framing on the “room within a room” in the Client Theater / Sound Design / Color Enhancement suite. Very cool! Looking at the back of the Client Theater. You can see how the inner wall pulls away from the outer wall. There’s …
I’ve been getting quite a few emails from folks asking a lot of questions about Davinci Resolve and Apple Color. Specifically, “which one is better?” That’s a loaded question for a number of reasons, but not the least of which is, they’re both just tools. Neither will make you a better colorist just …
It’s September 14th, and the bricks are about done, the Conference Room makes its first appearance and the “inner room” of the sound suite is starting to take shape. Standing in the kitchen looking at our roughly framed Conference Room. We designed it pretty darn big at about 12 feet wide and 20 feet long. …
The speed that these guys are moving along with the brickwork is amazing. Then again, it’s just three straight runs that make their lives a lot easier. But I’m just so impressed with the quality of the craftsmanship going on that’s for sure. My nephew Quinn, Rebecca and my brother in law Randy stop by …
Thanks to a gentle push by one of our clients, we’ve invested in some new CD/DVD duplication equipment that has greatly enhanced our ability to turn around larger orders for clients. We added a Microboards 7 DVD burner giving us the capacity to burn around 500 to 600 DVDs in a single day! …
I thought I would put together a VERY simple example of the same shot getting essentially the same treatment in these two applications so you can see how they differ on what we would generally call “secondary color enhancement.” Basically after the shot is balanced, you now go ahead and give it the “look.” …