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Film and Website Production - Technical Info.


Film Production

It was very important to me that the ENG camera used through out the film by White Light's lead character, Peter McMullen, a seasoned Freelance Cameraman, was not only the camera manufacture of choice used by those in the profession, but was capable of producing exceptionally high quality natural images.

Ikegami's new HL-DV7W 16:9 2/3" IT CCD DVCAM camera

The HL-DV7W has only just been released but as with the many professional Ikegami ENG cameras before it, I am sure that it won't be long before the new HL-DV7W starts to see some heavy action in the ENG field. Continue to read my full report on Ikegami's HL-DV7W...

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Website Production

The onsetTV™ video reports and Online Diary stills are taken with a Canon XM-1, called a GL-1 in America, PAL DV camera. The DV footage is then edited in Apple's Final Cut Pro™ and compressed using Media 100's, Cleaner 5.

The onsetTV™ package, a Canon XM-1 and a PowerBook G4 laptop.

The viewfindercam™ is a webcam, fed directly from the Director's monitor into a Apple PowerBook™ G4 laptop. Where it is captured, wrapped, packed and up loaded by CoolCam on to our server every two minutes. On exterior locations, where a direct connection to the net is not possible, the files are up loaded using a mobile phone network.

The web site was designed and is kept up to date, with Adobe's GoLive™ 6 and Photoshop™ 7 on a Apple PowerBook™ G4 using Mac OS X. The rest of the photographs where scanned using an Agfa SnapScan™ scanner and Agfa FotoLook™ software.

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www.makingmymovie.com now has its very own Sun Cobalt RaQ3 server, with 128MB RAM and 8.2 GB HD, at NetNation in Vancouver, Canada. Ideal situated between Europe and the US, NetNation's datacenter has 4 feeds from 4 seperate providers and uses BGP4 routing, which allows traffic to take best route to any of the major backbones. The server is located in the most wired building in Western Canada which has a direct link to Seattle, one of the key stops for bandwidth.

The RaQ3 is a high-performance, easy to use, dedicated server solution. The best part of the RaQ3 is its performance. In its basic configuration, it is able to concurrently handle over 140,000 emails, 50,000 file transfers, and over 250,000 web page requests in one day. If being used only as a web server, the RaQ3 can handle over seven million web page requests per day. For added security and to offset any extra CGI load, makingmymovie's OpenTopic forum software is run from Infopop's own servers in Seattle.

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I would also like to thank the following companies who have make the filming of White Light possible: