http://www.btlnews.com Voice of the Crew Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:12:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.btlnews.com/awards/a-level-playing-field-at-the-2012-annies/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/a-level-playing-field-at-the-2012-annies/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:58:20 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=25001 International Animated Film Society presented a more egalitarian approach at the 2012 awards. ASIFA – Hollywood offered entries from many companies in many categories at the Feb. 4 awards show, which had been criticized for being relegated to only a few firms garnering top wins previously. While DreamWorks Animation, Pixar and Disney still reign as top box-office earners with their productions, and The Simpsons is still a lauded and steadily awarded TV show, other lesser-known companies managed to gain due attention, both in individual nominated and awarded form with the 28 awards given out in 2012.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/a-level-playing-field-at-the-2012-annies/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-editor-joel-cox-j-edgar/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-editor-joel-cox-j-edgar/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:48:32 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23917 Joel Cox, who has edited nearly 40 films in total and has worked with Clint Eastwood since the late 1970s. ]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-editor-joel-cox-j-edgar/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/for-your-consideration/a-banner-year-for-special-makeup-effects/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/for-your-consideration/a-banner-year-for-special-makeup-effects/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:58:47 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23678 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/for-your-consideration/a-banner-year-for-special-makeup-effects/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-sian-grigg-j-edgar/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-sian-grigg-j-edgar/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:57:46 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23468 J. Edgar. The story of founding FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the Clint Eastwood film posits the title character at four separate age stages: his early 20s, his mid-30s, his early-40s and his early-70s. Responsible for mastering these stages was Leo DiCaprio’s personal makeup artist, Sian Grigg, who has been with the star since Titanic.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-sian-grigg-j-edgar/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-julie-hewett-the-artist/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-julie-hewett-the-artist/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:47:55 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=22372 Michel Hazanavicius’ new film, The Artist, brings audiences back to the freewheeling world of silent films in the roaring twenties. Without question, this black-and-white period film about movies themselves required close attention to detail in all departments including cinematography, costume design and art direction. But the makeup department had to work just as intensely to create believable appearances for all on-camera performers, notably lead actors Jean Dujardin playing silent film star George Valentin and Bérénice Bejo playing his muse, the young dancer, Peppy Miller.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-julie-hewett-the-artist/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-matthew-mungle-albert-nobbs/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-matthew-mungle-albert-nobbs/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:51:13 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=22163 Albert Nobbs, both a period and foreign-produced film which manages to create a visceral world onto itself inside of an $8-million budget.  This film is a triumph of costume and production design, cinematography, and direction, with its characters fully inhabiting 19^th century Ireland.  Not to be discounted among these crafts is the film’s makeup.  In addition to the many period makeups on both men and women in the story, the production was tasked with believably altering the appearances of its two female leads to make them pass as men in a traditionally male working environment.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-matthew-mungle-albert-nobbs/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/scorsese-hails-his-below-the-line-collaborators-for-the-enchanting-hugo/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/scorsese-hails-his-below-the-line-collaborators-for-the-enchanting-hugo/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:24:18 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=20951 Martin Scorsese was eager to acknowledge his many collaborators, both present and in name only, for his new fantasy film, Hugo at a special event in Los Angeles on Nov. 5. Flanked by cinematographer Robert Richardson, composer Howard Shore, production designer Dante Ferretti, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and visual effects supervisor Robert Legato, Scorsese described the making of this magical fairy tale, certainly a departure from his métier of personal projects. ]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/scorsese-hails-his-below-the-line-collaborators-for-the-enchanting-hugo/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/canon-cinema-eos-leave-no-story-untold/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/canon-cinema-eos-leave-no-story-untold/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:55:59 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=20891 Paramount lot in Hollywood, Canon debuted their C Series lightweight and portable video cameras, featuring the EOS C-300. This particular camera includes an EF mount system to support EF lenses and EF cinema lenses, but it also has a PL mount. The compact camera, on display in two large soundstages on the lot, also has a Super 35mm CMOS sensor and 8.3 Megapixels imaging processor which offers special low light performance capabilities. ]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/canon-cinema-eos-leave-no-story-untold/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/titanic-to-sail-again-in-3d-in-april-2012/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/titanic-to-sail-again-in-3d-in-april-2012/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:07:37 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=20668 Titanic, James Cameron's lavish spectacle, released in 1997 and winning 11 of its 14 Oscar nominations, is getting a makeover, courtesy of Paramount Pictures and Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment. At Paramount on Oct. 28, Cameron and producer Jon Landau unveiled 18 minutes of the film that has been converted to 3D after a complete scan and digital restoration of the original negative to a 4K version. Next April, Paramount will release Titanic in both 3D and 2D formats, and with the advent of the 4K version, the picture quality will be as if the film were just created yesterday, and not 15 years ago.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/titanic-to-sail-again-in-3d-in-april-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/production-design/halloween-comes-early-as-horror-runs-amok-in-big-bear/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/production-design/halloween-comes-early-as-horror-runs-amok-in-big-bear/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:04:47 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=19723 Friday The 13th. The region famously boasts scenery as diverse as mountains, beaches and desert, and what better place to set a horror film festival than a gothic mountainous resort town? Thus, the Big Bear Horro-Fi Film Festival was set up to provide a forum for both established and novice genre filmmakers. ]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/production-design/halloween-comes-early-as-horror-runs-amok-in-big-bear/feed/ 0