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16 items from 2011
In Good Hands: archiving correctly
30 August 2011 8:30 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Good preservation allows films to survive the test of time decades after their original release. Miguel Gonzalez reports on the challenges of preserving the country’s audiovisual history.
Human lifespan and collective memory are both so short that it’s no surprise many films are condemned to disappear from the face of the Earth, completely forgotten by its audience. But when the work is being archived and preserved properly, there’s always the possibility of a second chance. Take, for example, the work of Giorgio Mangiamele.
‘Giorgio who?’ Many may ask.
Italian-born Mangiamele made his first feature Il Contratto in Melbourne in 1953. A pioneer, he was the first to document the experience of migrants in post-war Australia, and was one of the few art cinema directors working in the industry in the difficult decades of 1950 and 1960. Although his feature Clay was the first Australian film to screen at Cannes to critical acclaim, »
- Colin Delaney
Grand Theft Auto 5 Rumors Have Los Angeles Setting, Robert De Niro To Lead Voice Cast?
9 August 2011 1:12 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rumors about Grand Theft Auto V have surfaced pertaining to the setting, codename, and characters for the highly anticipated spectacle. A reported casting call has outed the codename “Rush” and a character list has also been revealed. The setting is rumored to be what most people have speculated it would be, and that is a modern times Los Angeles.
One final rumor about the game is Gilbert Gottfried and Robert De Niro will be voice actors in GTA V.
Here is the list of rumored characters:
Mitch Hayes:
38 – Annoying, wise cracking, highly successful FBI agent. In great shape. Does triathlons, drinks low cal beer, but still has a sense of humor. Miguel Gonzalez:
25 Young Mexican American FBI agent, caught between a few mob bosses. Very clean cut Clyde:
23 – Moronic, almost inbred and creepy white trash hillbilly. Very naïve but in a creepy ‘it’s only incest sort of way »
- Matt Mann
Marvelous Effects: Fuel VFX on Captain America
8 August 2011 6:53 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Sydney-based vendor Fuel VFX completed 120 shots on Captain America: The First Avenger, consolidating its relationship with Marvel Studios and reputation as a world-class company. Miguel Gonzalez reports.
The last piece in the billion dollar Marvel Studios superhero puzzle is Captain America: The Last Avenger. Since his 1941 creation by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as a symbol of Us patriotism, the character has been synonymous with the red, white and blue of the American flag, but the latest incarnation of Captain America is quite global, with a number of international vendors contributing to the creation of this visual extravaganza. One of them is Sydney-based Fuel VFX.
Most of the film is set in the 1940s and tells the story of Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) a man who is physically unfit to join the Us Army to fight in the Second World War, and instead volunteers for a military experiment that turns him into a super-soldier. »
- Colin Delaney
Film Festivals: Where they stand in the digital climate
22 June 2011 6:57 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Every year dozens of new film festivals pop up around the world, and Australia is no exception. Miguel Gonzalez asked Australia’s festival directors what the proliferation of these events mean to screen culture and the local film industry.
As the screen industry migrates to the digital world, there’s one experience that cannot yet be replicated online: the excitement of a film festival.
Festivals are not only major community events, but essential to the survival of film culture; they provide audiences with alternative visions of the world and content that not only differs from the standards established by Hollywood blockbusters, but also goes beyond the release limitations of the local art house distribution system. They can provide the film industry with a space for the exchange of ideas and cooperation.
For Adelaide Film Festival director Katrina Sedgwick, the ultimate goal is to create a critical mass of energy that »
- Colin Delaney
The McKee to Success
13 June 2011 11:49 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Every year, thousands of writers around the world pay hundreds of dollars to attend this man’s seminar. Miguel Gonzalez spoke with the one and only Robert McKee about how he’s planning to educate Australian writers.
His official website (mckeestory.com) boasts the names of hundreds of former students turned celebrities with a combined 35 Academy Awards (and 160+ nominations) and billions of dollars earned at the worldwide box office.
He’s been famously celebrated and satirised in Spike Jonze’s 2002 film Adaptation (where he was played by his friend, actor Brian Cox). He claims there are no money-making formulas or rigid rules, but forms and principles of story structure and design. He is Robert McKee, and in a world where content is king, he is the Emperor.
This is the Encore interview with McKee, prior to his Australian tour later this month.
Screen Australia is supporting your visit. In a »
- Colin Delaney
The Rise of Singapore
24 May 2011 5:22 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Singapore may be geographically small but it has big plans for its screen industry, including making good use of its co-production treaty with Australia. Miguel Gonzalez reports.
Next month, the screen industry’s eyes will be in Singapore, as the island nation hosts its first market/conference/ trade and technology exhibition, simply called ScreenSingapore.
It is part of the country’s plan to become a regional media hub. The local media industry employs 60,000 people, with about a 30 production companies, 20 animation studios and a dozen post-production houses. Plans for growth include the development of Mediapolis @ one-north – a 19-hectare innovation and R&D complex that by 2020, will host soundstages, digital production and broadcast facilities.
The country’s Media Development Authority launched the blueprint for the nation’s media industries in 2009. The Media Fusion Plan aims to make Singapore “the trusted global capital for New Asia Media” by strengthening the media infrastructure and »
- Miguel Gonzalez
Brain drain: The point of no return
23 May 2011 6:27 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Australia’s screen professionals must be free to practice their skills anywhere in the world, but how do we stop this healthy career development from becoming a dangerous brain drain? Miguel Gonzalez reports.
If we were to make a list of all the Australian screen practitioners who have made it overseas, it would be a very long list indeed. It would probably start with the A-list creatives everybody knows, followed by the more anonymous and numerous executives, directors, producers, editors, cinematographers, VFX artists and technicians working all over the world.
While it is to be expected that many – if not all – industry practitioners would seek to expand their horizons and work internationally at some point in their careers to reach other markets, work in other systems and cultures and develop new skills, leaving Australia should not be an act of professional desperation.
The historical fluctuation in the volume of international »
- Miguel Gonzalez
Snowtown: Horror of the mind
9 May 2011 3:35 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Australia’s most tragic serial murders have been re-imagined as Snowtown, a psychological thriller that will prove its early detractors wrong. Miguel Gonzalez reports.
Few Australian films have attracted as much attention as Snowtown, and it’s easy to see why. The ‘Bodies in Barrels’ murders it’s based on shocked the nation in 1999, when eight bodies were found in barrels of acid in a disused building in the small town of Snowtown, South Australia. Four people were arrested and charged over the murder of 12 victims; John Justin Bunting was the central figure behind the killings, with the assistance of Robert Joe Wagner, Mark Ray Haydon, and James Vlassakis, the son of Bunting’s partner Elizabeth Harvey.
Ever since the project was announced and it was revealed it would receive public funding, some were eager to cast the first stone and dismiss the film as “a shocking way to spend »
- Miguel Gonzalez
Playing the market
2 May 2011 4:31 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Content creators heading to Miptv, Cannes and any other international markets must plan their activities carefully if they want to stand out at these extremely competitive events. Miguel Gonzalez reports.
Every year hundreds of content creators from all over the world travel to Europe, Asia and the Us to do business at the big festivals – Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance – because they feature a market component for buying, selling, screening and financing films. Television creators have Miptv and Mipcom; documentary filmmakers have Idfa and HotDocs. There are, of course, many more markets – old and new – taking place in different territories and filmmakers, whether they’re financing their next project or looking for a sales agent or distributor, must identify the one that is right for each film, documentary and TV program.
While the idea of warm spring nights in Cannes, in designer outfits and sipping drinks while selling/ buying the »
- Miguel Gonzalez
VFX: Thor
17 April 2011 3:31 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Just like other drama directors before him, Kenneth Branagh faced the challenge of being an industry veteran, yet a novice in the ultra high budget, VFX intensive level of filmmaking. Miguel Gonzalez reports.
Better known for his Shakespearean work on film and on the stage, Kenneth Branagh was an inspired yet unusual choice to direct the film adaptation of the Marvel Comics superhero and god of Thunder, Thor… and he didn’t hesitate when he was approached to helm this project.
“I knew Thor would be an epic on a scale that I had not worked on before, so I was excited and surprised,” admitted Branagh.
He even finds similarities between the work of Shakespeare and the world of Thor – the Norse god of thunder sent to Earth to learn humility: “They’re both about royal families, the tension between the private world of public individuals, and the jobs they have to do. »
- Miguel Gonzalez
VFX: Sucker Punch
11 April 2011 6:50 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Miguel Gonzalez spoke with Us director Zack Snyder about Sucker Punch, the first film he’s conceived from beginning to end. It’s also another step in his successful relationship with Australia’s Animal Logic.
Sucker Punch is Zack Snyder’s fifth film, but only the first one not to be adapted from existing material. It’s an original script co-written with Steve Shibuya; it tells the story of Baby Doll (Emily Browning), a teenager locked up by her stepfather in a psychiatric hospital. With the help of her inmate friends (including Abbie Cornish) she’ll have to enter and conquer a series of fantasy worlds in order to escape her real life prison before being lobotomised by her captors.
Snyder admits that, being his own script, he felt more pressure working on Sucker Punch, at least in the early stages.
“But once it’s written, the script takes a life of its own, »
- Miguel Gonzalez
A Heartbeat Away: Smells Like Teen Spirit
13 March 2011 3:40 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
From Nirvana (and Isabel Lucas) fans to seventy-year-olds, Gale Edwards’ debut feature A Heartbeat Away targets an unusually wide demographic. Miguel Gonzalez reports.
Originally titled Montague Municipal, the script was submitted by a Queensland Investment Corporation equities dealer, Julia Kincade, to an initiative set up by the Pftc and Pictures in Paradise to find new writers.
“New writers come up with fantastic ideas and they’re very open to changes, which I’m not sure more experienced writers are. The downside is that it can sometimes take a long time, because they’re not full-time writers and they’ve got other jobs,” said producer Chris Fitchett.
Two scripts from that scheme were soon made into films, Blurred in 2002 and Under the Radar in 2004, but the process for this one would be much slower. Chris Fitchett was working on the film as script editor with Brown producing, but both got distracted by other projects. »
- Miguel Gonzalez
Content Classification: Industry guidance recommended
9 March 2011 8:01 PM, PST | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Our content classification system is about to be reviewed to ensure it remains relevant in the digital age, allowing Australians to make informed content choices. Miguel Gonzalez reports.
Just before Christmas, Attorney-General Robert McClelland and Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor announced they would ask the Australian Law Reform Commission to review the nation’s classification categories and, indeed, the entire classification system. O’Connor said it needs to be modernised to accommodate current and future technologies, and to allow people to make informed choices about their content consumption The last enquiry into classification laws took place in 1991.
Videogames that have received most of the attention, with some members of the community the introduction of an R18+ classification for violent games, as well as a review of the current MA15+ and Rc. More traditional screen content, however, is not free of controversy, with the occasional groups openly complaining about »
- Miguel Gonzalez
Profile: Bob Connolly, a life of observation
9 March 2011 7:53 PM, PST | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
After a long absence, director Bob Connolly returns with Mrs. Carey’s Concert. Miguel Gonzalez spoke with him about his life in documentary.
Connolly was not the type of child that dreamt of working on TV or film. When he dropped out of an Arts Law degree in 1964, he joined the ABC as a cadet journalist. He did “reasonably well” and ended up doing a stint in New York. When he returned in 1968, he joined a current affairs program, first as an assistant producer, and ultimately working as an on camera reporter.
“But I was hopeless at the studio, like a stunned mullet, terrified of live stuff. My brain used to go blank!” he admitted.
So Connolly was sent to work on the show’s “Sunday stories”, doing five-minute reports until, three years later, he was asked to do a half-hour story for the documentary series A Big Country. It was his first observational work, »
- Miguel Gonzalez
Danger 5: find them online, bring them to the TV
24 February 2011 5:17 PM, PST | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
Dario Russo got millions of hits online with his Italian Spider-Man. He told Miguel Gonzalez how he’s going to bring that existing audience to his new TV show, Danger 5.
When Dario Russo first conceived Italian Spider-Man – a parody of Italian action films of the 70s – as a short film for his final year at Flinders University and uploaded it to YouTube in late 2007, just as he had done with all his previous work, he did not anticipate that the fake trailer would find a cult following online… but it did.
“It was shot on a Jvc prosumer HD camera, and it reflected the absolute zero budget we were working on then. It was made essentially with what we could borrow, but for some reason a whole bunch of people decided to watch the trailer,” he said.
The initial success helped Russo secure funding for 10 more shorts, which were also released via YouTube. »
- Miguel Gonzalez
Editing: Like cutting off three fingers
12 January 2011 7:06 PM, PST | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
The work of editors is often overlooked. Miguel Gonzalez found that, as if that wasn’t bad enough, they now have more footage to work through but not more time to do so, and tight budgets mean assistant editors are becoming a rare luxury.
“It’s like cuttting off three of an editor’s fingers,” said Underbelly editor Deb Peart about the absence of assistant editors during the crucial moments of the editing process.
Due to budgetary reasons, assistants are frequently taken off jobs once the film has been shot, and then brought back at the end.
“I started as an assistant, learning from sitting with directors and editors and observing them work together in the cutting room and watching the cut develop. They’re now taking away that period of learning from assistants, because when they’re doing rushes they’re chained to their desk, getting what they can »
- Miguel Gonzalez
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