A 20+ year veteran of the film and television world, Lance Bachelder’s recent credits include Steve Oedekerk’s CG comedy feature Barnyard: The Original Party Animals and the hit Nickelodeon series Back at the Barnyard where he served as Supervising Editor.
Explains Lance,
“We use NewBlueFX to make movies more interesting. These plugins bring originality to our production that is different from other plugins. When we use industry standard plugins, people have already seen the effects, but with NewBlueFX, we get a cool and fresh look.”
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Meet Scott Spiro, a 28 year veteran of professional broadcasting at KNBC and a NewBlueFX user. His work has won dozens of awards, including a national Emmy for the series “Beating the Odds” which he edited.
Check out MicroFilmmaker writer Ryan Graham’s excellent review of NewBlue Film Effects . Thanks for the good grades, Ryan!
Much of making a video look like film involves recreating the unintended artifacts of old technologies (hand cranked cameras, for example) and the ravages of time and lazy projectionists.
There’s also a very positive side to the look of film. For example, film responds to light in a non-linear way that compresses the brightest and darkest parts of the image with appealing results. Different film stocks accentuate different colors.
Often, people go to great lengths to achieve a particular “film look” which they use throughout a movie or even a TV series. They set a unique look that might be tied to mood, place, or a time period.
You can design your own look using the appropriately titled “Film Look” plug in.
