Postique and Griot Editorial, Southfield, Mich., recently completed creative editorial, telecine and finishing services on the 2009 Ford running footage package using the new daVinci Resolve R350, on behalf of JWT Team Detroit. Postique and Griot Editorial are divisions of Grace & Wild, Inc.
JWT Team Detroit was one of the first to utilize Postique’s Resolve R350 system and DI workflow. According to agency production manager Patrick Iadipaolo, “The DI workflow is most efficient. All of our media remained on a digital hard drive in their most updated state accessible by colorists, editors and Flame artists. As each operator made modifications to a scene, it was updated to the drive. At any given time, all media was available with any changes made to any scene by any operator. This is the true beauty of the system. We were able to move around from color correction to Flame to online simultaneously. We weren’t handcuffed to the traditional process, which forced us to go to tape before we could move to another room.”
For the Ford running footage, Griot editor Steve Persin and assistant editor Patrick Duffy completed the creative editorial; Postique director of telecine Eric Maurer, telecine producer Mike Diegel, associate colorist Chuck Klatt and film assistant Kevin Roberts provided telecine services; and senior editor Jeff Fleck, associate editor Michael McClelland and assistant editor Kyle Thatcher completed the online finishing. Additional Postique contributors included new media/duplication supervisor Jim Elder, project manager Jeannine Thompson, duplication technician Stacey Szostek, and duplication/shipping coordinator Michael Fronczak.
The daVinci Resolve R350 debuted at the 2008 NAB Show, and Postique was the first in the U.S. to purchase two of the highly advanced systems. At Postique, the Resolve R350 provides the bridge between a traditional telecine workflow and a commercial DI environment with traditional outputs. Film will be flat passed to the SAN D-max/D-min for auto-conform and color correction of spots in A-mode fashion. Material then will be output to a DVS SAN and rendered so that editorial eQs can be re-conformed with handles. The Resolve enables Postique clients to easily archive material to data drives, to HD, or to SD tape…..
A TASTE OF HISPANIC CAVIAR
Caviar Content, Los Angeles/Brussels/Amsterdam, has further expanded into the Hispanic arena, signing Argentinean directing team, the Puenzo Brothers (Nico and Pepe), who will work in both Hispanic and English-speaking markets. Their first job for Caviar is a Wendy’s shoot out of Vidal Partnership, NY.
Also coming aboard Caviar’s roster of Hispanic ad talent is director Rogelio Sikander. ..
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Director Lance Larson has joined Synthetic Pictures, bicoastal and Austin. The L.A.-based Larson has seen his short film Bloom gain success on the festival circuit, including best short film honors at the Hollyshorts Fest and “Directors Choice” at the Washington D.C. Shorts Festival. He has also worked with such agencies over the years as Saatchi , Slingshot and Square One….Comma, an original music house based in Chicago, has promoted Chicago composer Justin Hori to composer and creative director of its Santa Monica studio. He will oversee that new Southern California base of operations along with West Coast executive producer Vicki Ordeshook…..
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film โConclaveโ and the series โSay Nothingโ won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USCโs Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the yearโs most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for โConclave.โ
In accepting the award, Straughan said, โAdaptation is a really strange process, youโre very much the servant of two masters. In a way itโs an act of betrayal of one master for the other.โ He joked that โYou start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,โ crediting author Robert Harris for being โso kind, so generous, so open throughout.โ
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode โThe People in the Dirtโ from the limited series โSay Nothing,โ which Zetumer adapted from Keefeโs nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this yearโs extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying โprojects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USCโs Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.โ
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. โIf ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,โ she said, โyou have only to go to a... Read More