What effect will cloud computing and collaborative workflows have on the post production industry? Learn from the experts in this podcast produced by Chris Peterson and Nathaniel Bonini (PNYA) and Tom Mauro, John Gallagher and Conny Gordon (SMPTE).

Panelists
Todd Kelly, Avid Technology
Diana Dekajlo, Post Production Supervisor
Nathaniel Bonini, BeBop Technology

This podcast was recorded thanks to the staff at the Dolby 88 Theater.

Frame By Frame, Episode 004: Maurice Schell, Peter Frank, Lee Dichter on Sidney Lumet's The Verdict

Sound editor, Maurice Schell  (Gimme Shelter, Serpico, The Missouri Breaks,  Apocalypse Now, All That Jazz, Melvin and Howard, Reds, Scarface) , re-recording mixer, Lee Dichter, (Grey Gardens, Sophie’s Choice, Hannah and Her Sisters, Miller’s Crossing, The Civil War) and picture editor Peter Frank, (The Verdict, Cadillac Records, Dirty Dancing) share stories about coming up in the 1960's 70's and 80's in the New York film industry and their collaboration on Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict.

Frame By Frame is a podcast series that introduces you to the most influential, respected and accomplished cinema post-production professionals working in New York today. Through intimate, informal discussions between collaborators about post-production craft, aesthetics, process and technique, we’ll recognize and celebrate the iconic films and people that have made New York film history as well as those contemporaries who continue to make important contributions to the art of filmmaking. In conversations anchored by the film editor, we’ll share the stories that define New York as an essential ongoing capital of the global film industry.

 

Music in Post: The Key Players.

This panel includes an award-winning music supervisor, a music editor and a composer who offer advice on a smooth music production for film and television post production. Panelists will also show musical examples of their work and explain how they help to create a finished soundtrack. This event is specifically aimed at helping editors, producers, post supervisors and others to better understand the complexities of working with music during post.

Some of the topics that will be addressed during the panel:

What materials is an editor responsible for giving to each member of the music department?

What is the interaction with each other? Who works with who? Is there a hierarchy? 

How to know whether or not a piece of music is working within a scene.

How do you communicate with music people if you aren't a musician?

How much creative control should you give a music supervisor or composer?

Panelist Bios:

Jim Black, Music Supervisor

Jim Black is an award winning music supervisor with over twenty years in the music industry.  In 1998 he founded Clearsongs Inc.  a full-service music supervision and consulting company for Motion Pictures and Television and has worked on over 90 films and tv shows, including Academy Award winners such as Black Swan, The Wrestler and HBO’s Treme and True Detective. He is just finishing up Season 2 of Marco Polo for Netflix and setting up for Amazon's Z: The Beginning of Everything  and Season 2 of Billions for Showtime.

Nancy Allen, Music Editor

Nancy Allen has over 20 years of experience in the film and TV industry.  She worked for almost 10 of those years with esteemed music editor Suzana Peric.  Her first film with Suzana was Scorsese’s Kundun (scored by Philip Glass). Together with Suzana, she worked with directors like Roman Polanski (The Pianist, The Ninth Gate), Mike Nichols (Angles in America, Closer, Charlie Wilson’s War), Jonathan Demme (Beloved, Heart of Gold, Rachel Getting Married), and Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings).  Since then, Nancy has worked on films with: Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Noah, the upcoming film starring Javier Bardem and Jennifer Lawrence), John Cameron Mitchell (ShortBus), Paul Haggis (The Next Three Days), Barry Levinson (Liberty Heights, You Don’t Know Jack) and David Frankel (Hope Springs, One Chance), with whom she is currently working on Collateral Beauty, starring Hellen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Will Smith, Kiera Knightly, and Naomi Harris. Most recently, she completed the first season of Billions for SHOWTIME. She has been nominated for 2 Golden Reel awards (winning for Lord of the Rings) and was part of the Emmy award-winning team for the sound and music on HBO’s Bessie. 

Ben Holiday, Film Composer

Ben brings more then 15 years of experience composing soundtracks for film. With a background as a jazz trombonist, Ben attended the Berklee College of Music where he studied classical composition, conducting and electronic music production. Ben learned the language of film music by working "in the trenches” with music editor Jennifer Dunnington and composer Howard Shore on such films as Spotlight, Hugo, Shutter Island, The Departed, and The Aviator. Most recently Ben wrote the orchestral score for the feature film Drawing Home and assisted the Blair Brothers with their score to the punk rock thriller Green Room. 

Ian Blume, Picture Editor

Ian Blume has worked in feature film postproduction for 16 years, spanning such films as Chocolat, Doubt and The Bourne Legacy. Armed with a bachelor's degree in Film from Emerson College in Boston, MA, Ian built a strong foundation at Sound One NY. Since then, he climbed the ranks as an assistant editor, working on 18 features of all budget levels, in the US and abroad. He has collaborated with many top-tier, award winning filmmakers - including editors Tim Squyres, John Gilroy, Dylan Tichenor, Barbara Tulliver and Andrew Mondshein, writer / directors John Patrick Shanley and M. Night Shyamalan, and producers Akiva Goldsman and Scott Rudin. An active member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild and the Post NY Alliance, Ian is currently finishing his 4th narrative feature film as an editor. Along the way he has compiled a variety of temp scores and has worked directly with music editors, supervisors and composers to take those films from the first spotting session to the final mix. 

 Isabel Sadurni, Picture Editor & Moderator

Isabel has over 15 years experience as an international feature film editor and producer. Her work includes award winning feature-length documentaries and short narratives that have played in top-tier global festivals and nationally on PBS and Discovery. She's a regular contributor to ACE's Cinema Editor Magazine is a proud member of Post New York Alliance. Listen for her upcoming PNYA podcast series, Frame By Frame, where New York's most influential post-production professionals share their process, techniques and stories as a celebration of New York's essential contribution to the global film industry.

 

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Introduction to Audio Post: ADR

Thursday September 3rd, 2015 @ 7pm 

Soundtrack NY @ 936 Broadway, 4th Floor

The first in a series about the Audio Post Production process, the PNYA Education Committee in tandem with Soundtrack NY, as well as Dann Fink and Bruce Winant, are hosting ADR 101: An Introduction to the Audio Post World.

The seminar will take place at 7 pm on September 3rd, 2015 at Soundtrack NY, 936 Broadway at 22nd Street, 4th Floor. Drinks and snacks will be available starting at 6:30pm.

The evening will shed light on the individual components of the ADR process. Spotting, scheduling, Principal ADR, Group ADR and Foley will all be covered in detail followed by a live in­-studio walkthrough. Leading members of the New York audio community will share their expertise in each of these fields.

Scheduled participants include Craig Kyllonen, Supervising Sound Editor; Mark DeSimone ADR Mixer; Jacob Ribicoff ,Supervising Sound Editor;Maegan Hayward, COO Soundtrack New York; Dann Fink, Loop Group Supervisor; Alex Carpenter, Foley Artist; and Justine Baker, ADR Recordist.

Seating in the studio for this event is limited, so please RSVP to seminars@postnewyork.org. to reserve your place!

The workshop is free for members ­- $10 for non members.

TURNOVER TO PICTURE 

TECHNICOLOR POSTWORKS NEW YORK

110 LEROY STREET 

NEW YORK, NY 10014
THEATRE

OCTOBER 14, 2014 @ 7PM

The workshop will cover picture turnover from editorial to a picture finishing/ DI department. Seating in the theatre for this event again is limited, so please RSVP to seminars@postnewyork.org to avoid disappointment. Seats will be allocated on a first-come basis.

Speakers this evening are:

Ian Blume has worked in feature film postproduction for 15 years, spanning such films as CHOCOLAT, DOUBT and THE BOURNE LEGACY.

A graduate of Emerson College (Film Studies, 99), he started out in NYC by building a strong foundation at Sound One. There he established close ties in the industry, and quickly became part of a tightly knit family.

Ian has climbed the ranks as an assistant editor, working on 14 features of all budget levels, in the US and abroad. He has collaborated with many top-tier, award-winning editors, directors, writers and producers, and accumulated valuable experience, technique and guidance from all of them.

Ian is currently working as editor on his 2nd narrative feature film, DRAWING HOME.

Matthew Schneider leads the research and workflow development effort at Technicolor - PostWorks through the Test Lab. He assists clients in workflow design and implementation, and other issues related to digital camera systems and formats. He also serves as liaison to Avid and other technology manufacturers to assist in product development and customer support.

Prior to joining Technicolor - PostWorks New York in 2003, Schneider worked as a support engineer for Avid Technology, where he assisted with large-scale broadcast network deployments, and workflow design for feature film and television clients. He is an active member of SMPTE New York and the Sony Cine-Alta User Group.

Ben Baker has been across a broad range of US and UK studio and independent films as an executive producer, post supervisor, project consultant, workflow designer and manager, in areas as diverse as on location dailies and editorial for digital cinematography, high-end digital intermediate mastering, feature film restoration and digital asset management over the life-cycle of entire project, from development to distribution. He lived in the UK for 10 years and ran the Digital Lab at Framestore during that time. He now resides in New York.

The workshop is free for members- non members can sign up on the night!