• Rotary Club of Adliya’s “Pink Walkathon”

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    The purpose of the RCA Pink Walkathon is to raise funds for two charitable initiatives: “The Gift of Life Bahrain [GOLB]” project which is for the benefit of Children with Congenital Heart Defects in which the Rotary Club of Adliya will purchase necessary medical equipment to be used in the Salmania Medical Centre; and to…

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  • The New Toy: a RedRock DSLR rig with an ARRI follow focus

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    It’s just arrived and Mario wouldn’t do anything today before he configured and installed the new rig for our Canon 7D DSLR. That big smile on his face should be sufficient to tell you how excited he is. I am too! Talk about in it for the fun :) We’ve actually already produced a number…

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  • TV is dead!

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    No it isn’t. And I don’t think it will ever be, either. It will morph into something that we might not be able to imagine at the moment, but I predict that it will (and must) fuse with the Internet and together provide a richer, more interactive experience. Production for this new hybrid beast will…

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  • Death by Google Docs?

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    I, like many of you I suspect, have sat through interminable and painful PowerPoint presentations the sole purpose of which seemed to have been to strengthen our latent view that the end is nigh. And you, like me, would have done anything to accelerate its occurrence just to get out of the room without murdering…

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  • Interactive movies

    Interactive movies

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    This is a fantastic and much awaited feature in movies and movie-making. Another paradigm shift that will transcend the 3D-craze? I certainly hope so. Making films with a viewer-supplied direction is much more interesting than simple immersion in 3D. Turbulence is one of several recent experiments in interactive filmmaking, given new life by the advent…

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