Twitch Post | Editorial, Color Grading, Motion Graphics, Finishing

Twitch Accepts “Made in NY” Discount Card

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:18:02 +0000

Twitch now offers a 15% discount on all post-production services to qualified projects participating in the “Made in NY” incentive program created by the New York City’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting.

This discount is offered in addition to a new tax credit incentive created earlier this year by New York State’s “NY Loves Film” program that encourages projects not shot in the state, or that don’t qualify for the production credit, to do their post production in New York. Eligible productions that complete 75% of their post production in New York can now apply for a 10% credit for the post production work done in New York. If you need help navigating the New York City and State incentive programs, give us a call.

Beta-testing DaVinci Resolve

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:30:30 +0000

Twitch’s Colorist, Alexis Van Hurkman, starts beta-testing Resolve, DaVinci’s real-time color-grading system. DaVinci is the name behind more feature films, television commercials, documentaries, episodic television production and music videos than any other grading system. Among feature films graded with DaVinci systems are “Avatar,” “Transformers,” “Valkyrie” and “Quantum of Solace.”

CMS Forex “The Arena”

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:34:30 +0000

Twitch provides editorial, sound design, motion graphics and finishing services to this action-packed spot for CMS Forex, one of the world’s leading online currency trading companies. The U.S. Dollar, the Japanese Yen, the British Pound and the Euro fight it out in the middle of a coliseum packed with currency traders.

World Cup Team for Safe Roads

admin — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:27:50 +0000

Twitch completes post-production (editorial, motion graphics animation, color grading and finishing) on a new spot for the Federal Road Safety Corps of Nigeria. Featuring top soccer players from the Nigerian national team, the spot aired during the broadcast of the 2010 World Cup. Shot on RED ONE camera in 4k resolution, the spot was edited by Robert Lopuski and graded by Alexis Van Hurkman.

From YouTube to the Tube

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 13:03:26 +0000

“Drink Yourself Fat” spot, edited by Abigail Honor, will play on the 11pm news on CBS, NBC, WPIX and WNYW in NYC. For all of you Glee fans out there – it will also be airing during tomorrow night’s show. The campaign was a hit on YouTube with over 500,000 in the first two weeks.

Frolicking at the MoMA

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 13:02:17 +0000

Colorist Alexis Van Hurkman completes grading on John Pilson’s nine-screen HD video installation “Frolic and Detour” for its premier at the New York Museum of Modern Art.

Commissioned by MoMA, “Frolic and Detour” takes its title from a legal term referring to “employee conduct that is outside the scope of employment and is undertaken purely for the employee’s own benefit.” The video employs both documentary and hallucinatory observations to describe one man’s daily routines and departures as punctuated by a kaleidoscopic mixture of painting, sculpture, cinema, and architecture. Shifting atmospheres ranging from offices, bedrooms, tennis courts, psychiatrist couches, forests, nightclubs, and hospitals provide the backdrops for days in the life of its “lion-in-winter” protagonist, native New Yorker and Attorney-at-Law Arnold Mandell.

Red One Camera Workshop

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:01:12 +0000

Twitch Post and Persona Films co-present the Red One Camera Workshop, designed to educate producers, directors and cinematographers about the best practices of shooting with Red One and navigate filmmakers through the minefield of high-end digital cinematography. Limited to 8 participants, the workshop will cover topics that range from format selection and set procedures to editing and color-grading workflows. Participants will have a chance to familiarize themselves with the Red One camera and visit our grading suite specifically designed for handling Red media. Admission is free. Coffee and brownies included.

When:
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
7:00pm-8:30pm

Where:
Twitch Post
114 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011
Phone: 212-300-6719

To sign up, please RSVP by emailing:
twitch@twitchpost.com

Twitch Launches New Grading Suite

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:00:01 +0000

We now have one more dark, dark room in our facility. But it’s not just dark. It’s as dark as DCI specifications for a perfect color grading theater dictate it to be. The 10-foot screen on the wall is not just bright. It’s as bright as it must be for grading your 35mm, Red or High Definition images. The projector is not just sharp and accurate. It’s THX-calibrated for projecting your footage so that the image you see on the screen is the same one your audience will enjoy in a movie theater, on TV, or online. Oh, and the man who operates all the bells and whistles, Alexis Van Hurkman, doesn’t just know what he’s doing. He knows enough for Apple to ask him to write the official Apple Color Manual. Welcome to the ultimate color grading suite.

Our Mouse Ran Up the Clock

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:59:17 +0000

Twitch completes an animated promotional film for Bulova, one of the world’s leading watchmaking companies. Produced by Persona Films, the presentation premiered at this year’s Baselworld Watch and Jewelry Show in Basel, Switzerland.

Twitch Starts Post on “Cargo”

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:57:28 +0000

Editor Abigail Honor begins cutting “Cargo,” a feature film directed by Yan Vizinberg. The film was shot on RED One camera at 4K resolution. Twitch will be providing all post-production services to the project, from offline edit to finishing and DPX output for film-out.

The film tells a story of a young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter, hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, who form an unlikely bond that transforms them and threatens to derail the traffickers’ plans.