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www.postmagazine.com December 2009 • Post 9 at a glance... Editor LISA GUNNING cut the John Lennon biopic, Nowhere Boy, which premiered at the 53rd BFI London Film Festival. The film by Sam Taylor Wood chronicles Lennon's youth and stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Aaron Johnson as Lennon. It will be distributed in the US through The Weinstein Company early next year. Gunning is represented by The White House (www.whitehousepost.com) for commercial work. STEPHEN ARNOLD MUSIC (www.stephenarnoldmusic.com) in Dallas created a custom musical theme for Amanpour, CNN's new program that looks at the work of correspondent, Christiane Amanpour.The music house matched the profile of Amanpour with a strong set of five themes that re- flect her status as a top journalist in the field. At the Inter BEE show in Japan, AUTODESK (www.autodesk.com) pre- viewed its Smoke editorial finishing software running on the Mac OS X platform. The demonstration marked the first time an Autodesk finishing product has been designed to run on the Mac platform. FOC AL PRESS (www.elsevier.com), a division of Elsevier, has published "VFX Ar tistr y: A Visual Tour of How the Studios Create Their Magic," by Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz. It features an introduction by David Rob- bins and a forward by Jakob Trollback. Winter Park, FL's FULL SAIL UNIVERSITY (www.fullsail.edu) is the first in- stitution to receive the official Purple Hear t Ser vices Seal (www.purple- hear tser vices.com), declaring it a "Veteran-Friendly School." The school works hand-in-hand with vets to do everything that is needed, from enroll- ment, to finance, to instruction, to alumni career development assistance. Stock video marketplace POND5.COM has expanded its royalty-free offer- ings with the addition of stock music and sound effects. The new audio component of Pond5 launches with more than 15,000 sound effects and over 3,000 production music tracks. Pond5 already offers more than 240,000 royalty-free stock footage clips. Richard Cooperman of SOLID (www.solidla.com) in Santa Monica edited Adam Lamber t's new music video Time for Miracles, which is par t of the soundtrack for Roland Emmerich's feature, 2012.The video was directed by Wayne Isham and casts Lambert against a backdrop of cataclysmic destruc- tion. Cooperman used Final Cut Pro on the project. T2 (www.t2.tv) in Kansas City, MO, has launched The Integrated Experience Lab, a new division that will offer the company's production and post skills to non-traditional marketing platforms, including interactive, experiential, viral and vlogging. The Lab is headed by T2 creative director Michael Ong and integrated experience designers Garrett Fuselier and Claudia Chagui, both of whom are new to T2. NEWTEK (www.newtek.com) recently demonstrated its portable HD pro- duction solution, the TriCaster XD300, by taking it on the road in a cus- tomized Mini Cooper. The car was outfitted with a XD300 and a 3play multi-channel HD/SD slow-motion replay system. It also featured a multi- camera switcher, the ability to create live vir tual sets, a titling station, an audio mixer, video editing and graphics tools. Indie Archangel aims for 3D release N EW YORK — Production company Merge (www. mergegroup.com) and direc- tor James Lawler recently created a seven-minute stereoscopic 3D film that will be used to help secure financing for its feature-length release. Archangel (www.archangelthe- movie.com) is an action film that was created on a micro budget with the help of numerous technology partners. The shor t narrative represents more than just a small por tion of the film — it's also a chance for the team to demonstrate the efficient workflow and high-quality picture they can achieve with limited budgets. Brian Rigney Hubbard was cine- matographer on the project, which fea- tures approximately 50 visual effects. The shor t was shot at 4K with two Red One cameras in a P+S Technik beamsplitter configuration. Red proxies were used to previsualize stereo clips in anayglyph in the field using an anaglyph template designed in After Effects. The team has since acquired a monitoring system based on the 3Play Pro stereoscopic processor. Assimi- late's Scratch was used to perform a one light transfer to 720p Quick- Time's with matching timecode. A monoscopic edit was cut in Final Cut Pro by Mike Colao. The conform was performed in Scratch using a CMX EDL from FCP. Scratch was also used for grading and syncing left and right footage, as well as to make inter-ocu- lar stereoscopic adjustments. Final output is expected to be a 2K DPX with a 5.1 surround. For more on stereo- scopic 3D, turn to the SWOT on page 38. Foley artists Hilda Hodges and David Fein (L-R) at work at Audio Underground, Warner Bros.' newest 4,000-square-foot audio facility located in an old film vault on the Warner Bros. (www.wbpostproduction.com) lot in Burbank. The 28-x45-foot Foley stage features a working kitchen, water pits and 16 work surfaces. Audio Underground also offers three re-recording stages and two Avid Nitris suites. The Nitris suites are connected to the re-recording stages via an Avid Unity server. This new entity will ser- vice a variety of projects, including feature films, TV, animation, cinematics and trailers.