Our website hasn’t been updated for a while, thanks for the great work of everybody in the office, now we are one step away from the new website online, the new website looks neat and nice, moreover it’s going to provide more infomation to our dear visitors.

In the new website we are going to focus on the following parts:

1) The business range we focus on

2) Showreel page, Yeah!

3) News Update

4) Solution of different end clients

5) Company&Staff Bio

etc

Did you know our website is based on CSS? It’s truly a difficult language for a beginner, but the page it creates is great.

Here is a pic of the draft.

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It might be a surprise for you but honestly it was a surprise for all of us, one of our client decided to give us this foosball table in the studio, we managed to get everybody in the office have some fun, what else? A box of beer!

Thanks for Ying and Heinken, now in the studio, you can find two teams already: Bright Shadow Films VS Simply Sound studio.

Bright Shadow Films VS Simply Sound Studio

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It might has nothing to do with the company but it’s still cool because it was did by me, I went to Beijing with the NIKE 6.0 BMX crew for two days, did some filming about it as well.

Beijing is called the center of film&art, most expats there enjoy the Chinese culture and old Beijing enviroment, with the Olympics, the government is trying to refresh this city with some new elements, it does make this city much cooler.

Here is a video made by me two days ago about the BMX trip.

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Have you visited the bund last week? If you did, two things could be very interesting for you:

1) The golden Cow statue has just been located on the bund, as one of the lucky stock sign, this one is just like WallStreet.

2) The big warehouse built quickly for the Dior fashion show, John Galliano as the designer give Shanghai fashion a big hit! Bright Shadow Films got chance to provide the film production for this amazing fashion event, same time catch up with the new fashion trendy wave, meet the cool people.

The project was simple but complicated, we need to connect with 5 SONY HDW camera, also provide the live switch signal to sina.com and some other media.

In the beginning we were struggling with the HDW camera, for 9 HDW camera in Shanghai it’s difficult to have them together, another problem is that HDW series is designed for HD tape recording instead of the live mixing.

We managed to found 9 camera in a really short period of time, not just that, we also found a good solution for client, we spent 2 days in the set up in the warehouse, putting the cable together, set up the camera, connect to the mixing table, monitor, backstage  LCD for John Galliano.

Do you know that we used film tripod instead of the TV tripod? No joke, we found 4 really heavy tripod for the client’s back up, in the end it turn out to be a good idea, there were some other media staying with the camera, so even if they touch the tripod, it’s hard to move them.

Here are some pics of that night, Clark as the production manager worked that day for 24 hours for our clients, from 7AM Saturday to 7AM Sunday, Rick Tullis as the steadicam guy also worked on this project, his previous working experience including some big project with Jackie Chan.

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As many of you probably has been testing the cracked versions somewhere, adobe cs5 is going to be available in the store today, with many new amazing features updates in photoshop, premiere and other software in the suite, it’s going to make the a bunch of creative people excited about it for quite a while.

To us the most important thing would be premiere update, so far what I have heard is that the RED 4k editing ability of premiere will be much better, especially you will find out that with a Quadro FX graphic card, you can easily playback all the 4k footage on your PC. Same thing would be much useful for those of you who want to replace the background, special effect, video encoding etc, they all will be faster!

Many people would be surprise how these things could be updated in this version of Creative Suite, I am not surprised with these new functions, if you are always pay attention in the graphic card company you will know the reason, ever since the Nvidia released the PhyX and Cuda, adobe has been follow up the tech for a while, last year, some codec software even released some CUDA based version, which allows you to convert the video 3 times faster.

Interested? Here is the preview of the premiere CS5, you will love it.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 – Mercury Playback Engine Sneak Peek

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As a film production company you might deal with many clients everyday, ever since film production turn into a industry, people start to think about the idea of making everything faster, in this way you will have more advantage than others who don’t care about the communication. Nowadays, people try to make this better by digital revolution, all the stuff you heard of: google calender, skype, gmail, etc.

When it comes to the solid solution, a proper server always comes first, you might heard of server as a IT term, it’s not as far as you think in film production, in the big company you heard of: icon film, dreamwork studio, HBO, etc, that’s where the big server boxes can be founded.

So what exactly does it help in a production company?

Today, I want to show you a little bit of what a server can do in film production company.

1) Files Back up: now if you think your harddrive is stable enough then you should google “harddrive broken” and find our how many people suffering from harddrive everyday, we are talking about keeping you and your employee’s document safe somewhere else out of the computer, same logic for the post-production, footage, project files, all needs to be saved somewhere else as a back up.

Most server can run the back up with your LAN connected computer, daily, weekly or according to your schedule. Moreover, if you are running a linux server, the harddrive partition works better than PC, no worries for the maintaince, linux will take care of it.

2) Printer sharing server: printing is such a basic office work, if you have a printer with a net adapter then good for you, but if you don’t, server will take care of that, with a printer sharing server, you can share the printer all over the LAN, even with the VPN while you are miles away from the office.

One other thing you should consider as a good thing, printer is not consider as a healthy thing in the office, it polluted air as much as a mine powered car does(I guess), so keep the printer away from the person is the best thing you can do when you hope the office air gets better.

3) USB nanny: USB and mobile harddrive is everywhere nowadays, same as the virus, you can’t really risk your post production computer to have it, nor does your production office PC, so having a server could make it easier, normally a server with anti-virus software could help you avoid those virus, same time some 64 bits OS(WIN 2008, Linux, Mac) doesn’t have trouble with virus since most of the virus are 32 bits.

When the virus scanning is done(usually less than 10 seconds by Kaspersky), you can copy the file through the LAN to anywhere you want safely.

One more thing you should remember, Anti-virus software is not recommanded to be installed in PC, so having a server can save you from that awkward situation.

4) Internet Routing: this is a function which server can offer nicely, the server can simply control the bandwidth of your internet, especially stop the Bit-torrent, over-speed download. Server will simply arrange the speed for each computer in a average way or the way you want it to be.

5) Communication: it’s not ancient time and people no longer shout to each other in the office, you need a platform to organize a office, you can find so many server based communication software out there, such like IBM lotus, Microsoft ERP, etc.

For a production company you can easily have a platform between pre-production, management, post-production, or even with the creative guys, by having this platform, people no longer need to stick post-it everywhere, share the info by a few mouse click. The idea is share the info in group, the software in server usually offer some function like task map, status update(like twitter), file sharing, calender sync.

It’s one of the key function people looking for, a good platform now could work not only with Computer, but also with your mobile phone.

6) Website: website runs on server somewhere you probably never been to, but it could be closer! If you have enough bandwidth and one static IP(in China it’s expensive), set up a website on your server is just cool.  Even if you don’t have a website but you want to create one for the people in the company, you can do that, by creating a company wiki, you editor now could explain to most of people how to upload the footage from camera to the computer, and it’s only in your company.

Above are the 6 key functions I can think of how a server could help a film/video production company better, a little bit more:

A branded server usually cost you some money, to achieve the function, you might need:

XEON CPU*1, 2G Memory*1, Harddrive 2T to 10T or more, stable power supply with a UPS supply in case, a solid server tower case, a cool place to store it.

Usually it won’t cost you more than 2000USD for everything, depends on how big your server harddrive.

There are so many article out there introduce the server, but did you know you can set up a server with a old PC? We are going to show you how later this week how we did it.

If you have any comment or info want to share with us, feel free to leave them here, we really appreciate it.

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Shooting Green Screen is always fun, lucky us have this client coming this month, they required a 3M*6M*3M green screen and needs everything to be done in one day.

We managed to finish the shoot earlier than we thought because of the experience crew we always work with.

Green Screen Shoot China Expo

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We had a shooting in Hongkong beginning of this year, the client requested the production support from us, the client didn’t know how would it go, they required location scouting, equipment rental, production support and expect everything to be finished in one week, with the great network and resource we have, we manage to arrange the shoot smoothly, the client were happy about the result.

Just in case you have to have a quick look:

There is a Bright Shadow Production assistant live in HK? Of course we do, JoJo is our hero in this shoot!

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(Houston, Texas–March 31, 2010) Royalty-Free stock library 123RF.com has relaunched its website promising to be faster, more responsive given a sleeker and modernized interface furnished with several added features.

“We recognize that some of our clients are always on the move, so we’ve developed a mobile-enabled website that specially caters to clients who own an iPhone, iPod or other 3G enabled device. The mobile website can be accessed immediately at http//:m.123rf.com.” says Stephanie Sitt, CEO of 123RF.com.

“Among other features that clients can enjoy at the new 123RF.com are the extra-large image sizes in 100, 200 and 300 MB TIFFs that are available on demand. Though these image sizes cost a little more, we’re confident that our clients will appreciate this value-added service – thanks to our partnership with a team of expert image enlargement professionals.” adds Sitt.

To commemorate this event, 123RF.com is celebrating the launch by running a 3-month Apple iPad Giveaway campaign. Every week until the end of May 2010, 123RF.com will give away 4 Apple iPads to 4 lucky winners who have joined as a Fan on 123RF’s Facebook Fan Page (http://facebook.com/123rfFans), retweeted a message from 123RF’s Twitter account (http://twitter.com/123rf) or made a purchase on 123RF.com. “It’s one of the many ways that we reward our loyal customers for their continued support for 123RF.com” says Sitt.

123RF.com is currently seeking business partners who wish to represent 123RF.com to their business community. 123RF’s business development team promises good income sharing models, responsive partner support and technical help for suitable partners. Sitt elaborates further by saying, “Interested Entrepreneurs wanting to jump-start a Microstock business are invited to contact us at partners@123rf.com to further explore business possibilities or obtain further information.”

About 123RF.com
123RF.com is a royalty-free stock photo library, also a targeted subscriber and community-based website that provides an avenue for the creative community. The 123RF.com platform gives photographers, illustrators and designers a chance to showcase their photographs, vector illustrations and design talent, allowing them to promote and sell their creations to a worldwide audience. Since its debut in June 2005, 123RF.com today hosts over 6,500,000 stock photographs and vector illustrations with over 8,000 photographers and illustrators.

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Directed by China’s young director Yang Shupeng, THE ROBBER, whose leading actors include Hu Jun and Jiang Wu, has been on theatrical release since Nov 20th, 2009.

THE ROBBER is one of the films going  public screening among the projects of SIFF’s China Film Pitch and Catch. It is Yang’s second feature film after his maiden work THE COLD FLAME.

Since its debut in CFPC of SIFF 2007, THE ROBBER has been considered as market promising and won CFPC’s award for Most Promising Project to Invest. It was well evaluated by investors and received collaboration intentions from international distributors including AVIX of Japan when it started to shoot.

In addition to THE ROBBER, other CFPC’s projects such as ONCE UPON A TIME IN TIBET by DAI Wei and THE LAST RAINSTORM by Leste Chen are now almost finished and scheduled for theatrical release the coming year.

SIFF’s CFPC serves as a bridge for the connection between film projects and investors, the place in which the young film makes can benefit from the concept of investors as well as their insight to the market. This helps young film makers better understand the market and enlarge the possibility for their project’s success.

The China Film Pitch and Catch is one of SIFF’s efforts to explore, support and promote the young. During the past few years, SIFF integrated its resource to be an effective system consisting of pitching, co-production and competition. The China’s annual leading festival hopes these efforts could encourage directors’ brave innovation and practice in arts while at the same time provide them the chance for their development worldwide. Wanma Caidan, SIFF’s best director of Asian New Talent Award 2006 for his THE SILENT HOLY STONES, brought his project ON THE ROAD TO LHASA to CFPC. His latest THE SEARCH competed for the grand Jin Jue Award of SIFF and is selected by the jury panel head by Danny Boyle as the winner of Jury Grand Prix. It’s now going for the theatrical screening in France by the end this year.

Either Yang Shupeng or Wanma Caidan, or THE ROBBER or THE SEARCH, it’s just a start. The young generation of China’s Film Industry grows fast and shows their talent to the world. The Shanghai International Film Festival will continue to set up a international stage for them.

The 13th Shanghai International Film Festival is due to start on June 12, 2010.

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• 123RF.com Launches New Website with Many Exciting Features
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• Nike 6.0 Stoked Tour-1
• Dior Fashion Show-Action!
• A new look