Post FactoryNY, part of the SIM Group family of companies, has added Rob Sciarratta as sr. colorist. The post house made the hire to support the growth of its film and television, as well as commercial divisions. Recently, Post FactoryNY has worked on projects including Oscar-winning documentary O.J.: Made in America, American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story, and season two of Master of None.
Sciarratta, a five-time winner of the International Monitor Awards for Best Color Correction, will lead the company’s color projects, beginning with American Made, the highly anticipated Tom Cruise film slated for September release. Additional recent work highlights include Blumhouse Film’s franchise The Purge: Election Year and the HBO miniseries The Night Of, as well as commercials for AT&T, Coca-Cola and Mercedes-Benz, and Beyonce’s Ghost music video. In addition to his work at Post FactoryNY, Sciarratta will continue his role as an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in NYC teaching Color Correction.
Prior to joining PostFactoryNY, Sciarratta was at Company 3.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More