By Carolyn Giardina
LAS VEGAS --Eastman Kodak, headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., has chosen the NAB as the venue in which to unveil a brand new Super 16 mm film stock combined with a new workflow that offers a flexible and cost-effective option for producing TV content in standard or high-definition formats. The system also provides creative control of the look throughout the workflow from preproduction through postproduction.
The Kodak Vision2 HD System packages the new Kodak Vision2 HD Color Scan Film 7299 with a Kodak Vision2 HD Digital Processor. The new film offers an extended dynamic range and broader exposure latitude coupled with the sharpness and fine grain imaging characteristics similar to the 500-speed Kodak Vision2 5218/7218 color negative film. In addition to mimicking the imaging characteristics of different emulsions, the system compensates for under- and over-exposure, as well as for variations in color temperatures.
The digital processor is a new postproduction tool designed to adjust digital files of scanned film to emulate the imaging characteristics of any current Kodak negative, including grain, contrast and colors. The box is used during a telecine session; it is loaned to the post house for the given job. The Kodak Display Manager, a component of the system, ensures accurate monitor calibration, so everyone, including the director, editor and cinematographer, sees exactly the same images.
Robert Mayson, general manager of image capture and VP of Kodak’s Entertainment Imaging Division, said efficiencies include the ability to work with a single, multi-purpose film that inherently reduces short-ends and time needed for magazine changes. “The Digital Processor saves time in postproduction by enabling the colorist to find the ideal starting point for a transfer more quickly,” he added.
A separate version of the Kodak Look Manager System designed for broadcast display (the original is geared toward print film for a theater screen) can be used as an optional component with this system. It allows cinematographers to previsualize looks in video space during preproduction, including emulating different filters, lenses, films and postproduction processes.
Jim Minno, director of Kodak’s television segment, reported that the first tests for this new system have already occurred in Los Angeles and in Europe.
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More