As three-time Academy Award-winner Ang Lee shot his upcoming
film "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk", the director relied on the
Delta Infinity Media Server from media serving experts, 7thSense Design,
throughout the production for test and dailies screenings. “4K, 3D, 120 FPS
capture gives extraordinary clarity to a film,” said Ang Lee. “It allows us to
explore new ground in cinema and engage the audience on a more emotional
level.”
Renowned for its
specialist display technologies and media serving product range, 7thSense
Design is often the supplier of choice for many film-makers, producers and
experience directors seeking the very best in video playback performance and
innovation in up to 10-bit colour.
The ability to
playback natively uncompressed image sequences enabled a quick workflow for the
production team to quickly review and generate content for the test and
production screenings.
“Getting first
test images, and then actual show footage onto a screen, was paramount to us
getting our heads around these new high frame rate formats,” explained Ben
Gervais, the film’s Production Systems Supervisor. “7thSense Media Serving technologies were key
to facilitating this.”
This effort
demonstrates the strength and flexibility of Delta Media Server to be used in a
variety of environments, adding feature film production and post-production to
a growing list of high impact and immersive audiovisual experiences.
ABOUT BILLY
LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALKThree-time Academy Award® winner Ang Lee brings his
extraordinary vision to Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, based on the
widely-acclaimed, bestselling novel. The
film is told from the point of view of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn (newcomer
Joe Alwyn) who, along with his fellow soldiers in Bravo Squad, becomes a hero
after a harrowing Iraq battle and is brought home temporarily for a victory
tour. Through flashbacks, culminating at
the spectacular halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day football game, the film
reveals what really happened to the squad – contrasting the realities of the
war with America’s perceptions. The film
also stars Vin Diesel, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, and Steve
Martin. Lee used new technology, shooting at an ultra-high frame rate for the
first time in film history, to create an immersive digital experience helping
him dramatize war in a way never seen before.
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