New ARRI ALEXA Hits Our Shores

Posted by admin - August 1st, 2010

Australian , Matched Image Camera Hire, will be among the first to be able to offer Australia the ARRI ALEXA digital cinema camera. Built on the technical expertise of the ARRIFLEX D-21, ARRI has launched the new ARRI camera the ALEXA part of a new generation of digital motion picture cameras. Like the D-21, ALEXA creates rich, organic images, with the look and feel of 35 mm film.

The ARRI ALEXA is designed to be used with 35 mm accessories and lenses, so will fit into established working practices and minimise production delays. Matched Image are providing the new digital cinema ARRI ALEXA camera with and without lenses, in lightweight and full production packages. Now taking bookings for this exciting and much anticipated digital camera, Matched Image have a full suite of products on offer to support your ALEXA hire including audio equipment rentals, lighting rental, grip equipment rental, edit suite rental, crew hire, production van hire and all camera accessories.

The essence of the ARRI ALEXA camera system is ARRIs own 3.5K Super 35mm format ALEV-III CMOS Bayer sensor. Through extended research and experimentation with sensor and pixel technologies ARRI made some important discoveries and applied these to the production of the ALEXA. Top-quality image quality is achieved through a fine balance between detail, colour reproduction and sensitivity. While some competitors strive to improve camera statistics on paper by cramming more and more pixels into a 35mm frame, ARRI used a proof is in the pudding approach with the ALEXA digital camera maintaining that optimum image quality is attained through slightly fewer, yet larger, pixels filling the available space on a 35mm sensor.

Utilizing Your Vocal Skills to Pay Bills with Voice over Jobs

Posted by admin - February 10th, 2010

Voice Over Jobs

Voice over jobs are not just about going into a vocal booth, reading a few lines, then going back home. It is about taking direction from various people at once, without taking it personally or getting accusatory. There are substantial skills involved in maintaining a voice over career. These are skills that usually not everyone is born with, irrespective of how nice their speaking voice may be. You have to be the complete package to justify receiving your paycheck. And before you even begin your career as a full fledged voice over talent, you must first begin with voice over training and a vocal coach. This education is essential for anyone determined to have a career in the voice over arena.

The finest recording engineer in the universe may be able to aid you with mixing and dubbing, but ultimately it falls on you to render the professionalism and vocal skills promised to the client. First, you must have the acting chops to know how to carry your lines. Then you have to cultivate on your accents, as well as your intonations. Various words should have various emphasis placed on them, but words that are spelled the same may not necessarily have identical inflection when said each time. It is crucial to know this before you arrive in the booth and start recording. Otherwise, this can be a waste of the client’s time and put a blemish on your reputation.

Alan Ball’s Genius Shows in True Blood

Posted by admin - October 28th, 2009

Alan Ball is one person who knows how to focus on the simplest aspects of work and construct an intriguing and absorbing show to steal the viewers’ hearts away. Ball changed Charlaine Harris’s original stories to depict the vampire-as-social-outcast characters in True Blood to the very real outcast people in America. Ball could have just included some simple titles in, but he chose to create one of the most stunning and spectacular opening sequence. Many critics believe that the titles are too good. It’s not that they under estimate the True Blood’s brilliance, but the opening sequence steal the show. Personally, the titles are amazing and they show the true colors of the rituals and people. The title sequence is based on stream of images with an increasing speed and repeating scenes until it ends with a women being ritually plunged into the lake and to return from the water as a freak. These images show that the society is divided into many segments, one of the being outcasts, and discriminate them on basis of race, color, religion and even humanity. The title song by Jace Everett, with its blend of southern blues, country music and rock, adds spice to the sequence and is a must buy for music lovers.