Jan
03

The New Toy: a RedRock DSLR rig with an ARRI follow focus

It’s just arrived and Mario wouldn’t do anything today before he configured and installed the new rig for our Canon 7D DSLR. That big smile on his face should be sufficient to tell you how excited he is. I am too! Talk about in it for the fun We’ve actually already produced a number of [...]

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Dec
22

TV is dead!

No it isn’t. And I don’t think it will ever be, either. It will morph into something that we might not be able to imagine at the moment, but I predict that it will (and must) fuse with the Internet and together provide a richer, more interactive experience. Production for this new hybrid beast will [...]

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Dec
21

What to look for in new corporate website design

I’ve been involved in electronic communications before the Internet came to be! That means, if there is an animal you know of before the dinosaur, that, my friends, would be me! But, thankfully, I’m not going to go into that story at the moment, suffice it to say that when I started in electronic communication, [...]

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Dec
17

Death by Google Docs?

I, like many of you I suspect, have sat through interminable and painful PowerPoint presentations the sole purpose of which seemed to have been to strengthen our latent view that the end is nigh. And you, like me, would have done anything to accelerate its occurrence just to get out of the room without murdering [...]

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Dec
16

Interactive movies

This is a fantastic and much awaited feature in movies and movie-making. Another paradigm shift that will transcend the 3D-craze? I certainly hope so. Making films with a viewer-supplied direction is much more interesting than simple immersion in 3D. Turbulence is one of several recent experiments in interactive filmmaking, given new life by the advent [...]

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Sep
29

Business support for charity drive

Think Pink Bahrain is launching its annual breast cancer awareness drive and, this year, it has greater support from sponsors. Apart from wider support from the community, Think Pink has four platinum sponsors – Gulf Broadcast, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland-Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI-MUB), Royal Golf Club and Gulf Brands International who will [...]

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