NYC Production & Post News
Not too long ago, Lenovo invited NYCPPNEWS to Nice Shoes, a well-regarded color grading house and full-on production studio in Manhattan. We had a chance to tour all of the floors of the Manhattan-based creative house, then got into details about the soon-to-be released Lenovo ThinkPad P1. This thin and light mobile workstation was touted […]
Photo credit: Kreg Holt (This is a long release from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment; if you would like a more enjoyable reading experience, check out The Bridge, Brooklyn Business News’ article.) Brooklyn, New York – On October 24, 2018, New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the Mayor’s Office of Media and […]
Reported by by Vienna McGrain, RIT University News October 30, 2018 Live filming of a commercial. Live audio mixing with sound engineers. Screenings of short films created by students. Video game development demonstrations. Tours and hands-on experiences were the order of the day as Rochester Institute of Technology formally opened the newest building on campus—the 52,000-square-foot MAGIC Spell […]
HP decided its connection to creatives needed nurturing, and in new ways the company hasn’t tried before. Last week at annual Adobe Max, the company revealed just that, new plans and initiatives to better deliver their hardware to the world’s creative professionals. At the conference, HP announced Z Club, a program to offer creative professionals […]
These days, for those involved in professional music production and audio editing, your main tool of the trade is pretty obvious these days: a good and capable digital audio workstation (DAW). But if you’re checking out the market, possibly for an upgrade or whole new package, you face a similar situation to someone moving to […]
This past July, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law tax credits worth 35-percent of $1 million plus of a production’s state tax spends. (New York’s state tax set aside runs 30-percent in NYC and the immediate area with 35-percent available upstate.) This reinstated tax credits that Gov. Christie’s administration revoked. News […]
An article recently posted by Katie Kilkenny of the Hollywood Reporter presents the results of a recent economic study that puts growth of LA’s film and digital media industries as topping that of New York… Despite attractive tax incentives in other states and changing consumer behaviors, the film and digital media workforce in Los Angeles […]
Okay, okay, so maybe that’s a bit much. But I really like the idea behind this Kickstarter project. Today, everyone’s very conscious that we’re at “peak oil”. Look at what you will – the dried out forests, encroaching oceans – but humans simply can’t act as if oil and coal don’t have consequences. We’re ready […]
Annette Michelson around 1966. Image credit: The Peter Hujar Archive LLC; Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Film historian, scholar and teacher Annette Michelson passed away at 95 on September 17th. Known both for her sharp intellect and suffer-no-fools attitude, she helped start the program in cinema history and criticism at New […]
“The “Hollywood East” movement isn’t exclusive to New York City’s five boroughs. Over in Saratoga Springs, filmmaker and Skidmore College screenwriting professor Nicole Coady has launched a new production company called Trident Fantasy Films. Coady, whose film career spans more than 25 years, has had screenplays produced by big name companies, including New Line Cinema […]
