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Screen Magazine - Screen Magazine: Vol. 29, Issue 9 - Index

Top Post-Production Companies Dish About 2008, So Far
Duplicating And Converting
With Advanced Digital Services
Advanced Digital Services (ADS)
continues providing notable audio and
video work in 2008. The Hollywoodbased
post-production house was
founded by Andy McIntyre in 2003,
and looks to the company’s steadfast
philosophy to keep growing.
“We’ll do whatever it takes to get our
clients whatever they need,” says Kevin
Yates, President of Advanced Digital
Services. ADS has recently added a
third Final Cut Pro suite to its studio, and
has added SmartJog and Teletrax to its
video encoding services.
While the post-house specializes in
editing, duplication, conversion, quality
control and closed-captioning for both
SD and HD, Advanced Digital Services’
especially notable forte is restoring
classics. ADS is continually completing
work on old television favorites such
as “Get Smart,” “Monty Python,”
“Golden Girls” and “The Jeffersons.”
ADS had previously garnered press for
restoring a handful of Howard Hughes’
films, including “Two Arabian Knights”
(1927) and “The Racket” (1928), long
thought by film historians to be lost or
unsalvageable.
//www.adshollywood.com
Bombastic Creates Graphic
“Misunderstanding” For CBS Sports
A major misunderstanding is at the
heart of one of the new hilarious spots
for CBS Sports Online, produced by CBS
and directed by Derek Ambrosi with
action-fueled graphics by Bombastic
(New York). The new campaign,
currently airing on CBS, illustrates some
potential mishaps that may occur
when basketball enthusiasts find the
excitement of “March Madness”
available on demand at CBS Sports
Online.
In “Misunderstanding,” one of the
spots in the campaign, an offending
fan is chastised by his coworkers and
supervisor for watching what they
perceive to be offensive material online.
Accused of talking about “Sweet 16”
and moaning in his cubicle, he tries to
get out of the sticky situation, insisting it’s
only basketball to the skeptics accusing
him of less wholesome viewing. The
spots each conclude with graphics that
further entice audiences to check out
the action (of the sporting kind) online
at CBSsports.com.
//www.bombasticinc.com
Company X Brings Sylvia Plachy
Documentary And Matthew Modine-
Directed Short To Life
Company X, based in New York City,
has started off the year by lending
out two top editors for two stylistically
different films. Both films were screened
at the Tribeca Film Festival that took
place from April 23 to May 4.
Editor Megan Brennan paired up with
director Rebecca Dreyfus of Persistence
of Vision Films to work on the 11-minute
documentary “Self Portrait with Cows
Going Home and Other Works: A Portrait
of Sylvia Plachy.” The film premiered at
the film festival on April 25.
Brennan and Dreyfus’s collaboration
was the result of a previous project both
women worked on. The film “Close-Up:
Photographers at Work,” had a section
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featured on Plachy, but both Brennan
and Dreyfus felt the need to expand it.
Additionally, Company X editor Terence
Ziegler cut the seven-minute short film
“I Think I Thought,” directed and written
by Matthew Modine. The film premiered
at Tribeca on April 25, and the film has
already gotten some exposure at the
Edinburgh International Film Festival
and the Zurich Film Festival.
//www.companyx.tv
Doing The Most At Foundation Post
Foundation Post (Chicago) has
been involved in massive amounts of
production since winning Post House
of the Year at SCREEN’s annual Star
Awards ceremony in March. So far this
year, Foundation Post has been working
on music videos, web-content videos,
and its usual high-end commercial
spots.
To aid with all this new production
is the acclaimed producer Erik Crary.
Crary came from Los Angeles where he
spent the last seven years working for
the Oscar-nominated director David
Lynch. Foundation Post has also been
shooting movie trailers for the Music Box
Theatre in Chicago. Having recently
brought in foreign art films, the Music
Box approached Foundation Post to
create a series of movie trailers in order
to promote these imported films.
Additionally, Foundation is getting into
the political side of things with the
production of a pro bono video for
the Civic Consulting Alliance (CCA).
The collaboration between editor/
director Matt Egan and creative
director Samantha Hart resulted in a
film designed to promote Chicago’s
commitment to pro bono contributions
from private and public sectors in the
areas of education, transportation and
the environment.
//www.foundationpost.com