MUSTN'T SEE TV
“The Storm," a miniseries airing on NBC Sunday, July 26 and Sunday, August 2, at 9:00 p.m., was produced by Larry Levinson Productions (LLP) using scab labor. The production crew of “The Storm" – fed up with low pay, a lack of benefits, grueling hours, and unsafe working conditions – walked off the job on March 23, seeking a union contract. Instead of negotiating, LLP chose to replace the crew with scabs. The IATSE calls for members, members’ families, and the viewing public to boycott LLP shows exhibited on the Hallmark Channel.
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THE SOUND OF TRANSFORMING ROBOTS, PART 2
With more than triple the number of robots as the first "Transformers" in 2007, the "TF2" sound editorial team met some huge challenges along the way to create a complex, impactful and balanced soundtrack through a collaborative process that was at least as frenetic as the visual action their intricate work goes so far to enhance. Co-supervising sound editors Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn, along with dialogue and ADR supervisor Mike Hopkins are interviewed.
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CUTTING COMMENTS FROM EDITFEST NY
Over a mid-June weekend at New York’s DGA Theatre, the American Cinema Editors (ACE) hosted EditFest, co-sponsored with the Editors Guild and Avid. A mixed audience of local and out-of-town professionals and newbies gathered to hear a series of panel discussions, for which those at the top of their craft assembled to discuss and trade observations on issues of craft, collaboration, process, and starting and maintaining a career.
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BETWEEN IRAQ & A HARD PLACE, PART 2
After the embarrassing situation at the airport––where I had been pulled aside into the "women's search line" and had to explain to a Jordanian security guard that what he had found in my purse was, in fact, a tampon (which he was scrutinizing and holding up to light to examine as if it was a strange alien object he had never seen before)––I knew we couldn't take any chances with the original film negative. We couldn't risk sending the undeveloped film through high-security airports where the cans could be opened, X-rayed, or damaged...
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