Trevor Hogg chats to the Academy Award-winning cinematographer John Seale… “I came out of the Outback using a little 8mm camera to record all of my family activities,” states Australian cinematographer John Seale whose experience in making home movies led him to his calling. “I wanted to get into the ABC because I met a […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisor Christopher Townsend… “I come very much from a design background,” states Visual Effects Supervisor Christopher Townsend who studied Graphic Design at Coventry University. “I learnt a lot about composition and how to place things in relation to each other so as to make a decent looking image.” The […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-winning film editor Anne V. Coates about Lawrence of Arabia… “I was doing some turning out in England the other day because I’m selling my apartment there,” recalls British film editor Anne V. Coates who made a surprising discovery. “I came across this letter which said, ‘Dear Mr. Spiegel, I […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-winning film editor Anne V. Coates… “When I was a really small girl I was very horsey; I used to think I’d like to be a race horse trainer,” recalls British film editor Anne V. Coates whose cinematic career spans over six decades. “Once I reached about 16 and became […]

Trevor Hogg chats with VFX Supervisors Alessandro Cioffi, Sean Faden, Richard Higham, Dave Morley, Charlie Noble and Edson Williams about the visual effects industry… There was a time when visual effects were viewed as B-movie trickery. The path to mainstream respectability began with the landmark release of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and the establishment […]

Trevor Hogg chats with art director Paul Inglis about ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Prometheus’… “What’s great about the way Dan [Weiss] and David [Benioff], the show’s creators and main writers, adapted the books was that there was a concrete feel on the page, of what those environments needed to be,” states Paul Inglis who served […]

Trevor Hogg chats with art director Paul Inglis… “My parents appreciated the arts,” says British Art Director Paul Inglis who as a child was taken to the theatre and gallery exhibitions by his statistician father. “They were happy for me to take the route I did through art college. I did a master’s degree at […]

Trevor Hogg chats with author Daniel H. Wilson about filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s upcoming cinematic adaptation of his novel Robopocalypse… Hollywood director Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan), upon reading a partially written manuscript about an artificial intelligence known as Archos which takes over modern technology and converts into it a lethal weapon against humanity, optioned the […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Daniel H. Wilson, author of the recent sci-fi novel Robopocalypse… The elder son of an automobile mechanic sheepishly confesses, “I always worked at the shop but I never did learn much about cars.” When asked if his father’s profession had influenced him, writer Daniel H. Wilson reflects, “You would think that […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker George Lucas in the sxith of a six part feature… read parts one, two, three, four and five. “When I was working on Young Indy [ABC, 1992 to 1993] with Harrison [Ford], the obvious occurred to me,” recalled George Lucas who had a breakthrough idea for a […]