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SERVING THE INDUSTRY SINCE 1986 VOL 27 · NO. 2 4 EDITOR'S LETTER Social media's role in post By Randi Altman 4 POST SCRIPT Aardman's art of stop motion By Marc Loftus 20 TRENDS 20 ARE YOU ENGAGED? Post companies embrace social media. By Randi Altman TELEVISION 24 POSTING REALITY Unscripted fare poses unique challenges for post pros. By Marc Loftus 28 TEST SPOTS How these early versions make the final piece better. By Christine Bunish AUDIO 34 UNSUNG GEAR Tools these audio pros can't live without. By Jennifer Walden 28 PHOTO: JACOB ROSENBERG DAILY NEWS UPDATES REVIEW: KRK RP10-3 monitors By Luke Harper TUTORIAL: Basic color balancing in Avid DS using a custom preset By igor Ridanovic TUTORIAL: Seth Worley's tutorial on creating a comic book sequence using Magic Bullet Looks, ToonIt and Trapcode. 40 Directors Mike "Mouse" McCoy and Scott Waugh, of Bandito Brothers (www.banditobrothers.com), helmed Act of Valor, which combines real-life active Navy SEALs and a fictional story by Kurt Johnstad. It was shot on Canon 5D Mark IIs with Panavision lenses as well as 35mm film and Sony HDSs, making for an interesting post process. Jacob Rosenberg helped give the low-end digital sources a high-end look. He established a post workflow that created an offline edit in Avid and a parallel conform timeline built concurrently using Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Media Encoder and various third- party apps. Turn to page 16 for complete details. 2 Post • February 2012 www.postmagazine.com VIDEO: Composer Kurt Oldman discuss- es Streamers By igor Ridanovic This Month In 24 6 BITS & PIECES What's new in post 12 DIRECTOR'S CHAIR David Cronenberg — A Dangerous Method By Iain Blair 16 COVER STORY Act of Valor: Jacob Rosenberg and Bandito Brothers blend drama and reality By Daniel Restuccio 40 POSTINGS A graphic glimpse of some recent work 44 PEOPLE Keeping tabs of the industry's movers & shakers 47 REVIEW Shure's KSM42 mic By Luke Harper 48 REVIEW Glyph's GPT50 external hard drive By Brady Betzel • Upping the ante with graphics in games • Stereo 3D: A new methodoloy • CG on the silver screen soars • Digitally augmented spots score big OFFHOLLYWOOD SWAMP WARS ANIMATED STORYBOARDS ROYAL CARIBBEAN ON OUR COVER