What We’re Up To: Week 1
It's a whole new world out there. With the price of professional and prosumer production equipment within reach of even the most uninitiated of enthusiasts and burgeoning craftsmen, how does any one video/media company stand out amongst the rest? The consistent,...
Making A Huge Broadcast Shoot Happen: Part 4
Last week, we left off on the topic of staying in sync. While this generally refers to audio keeping sync with what's happening on screen, we're talking about timecode sync here. "Timely" and "economic" wouldn't be one way to describe this particular broadcast shoot....
Making A Huge Broadcast Shoot Happen: Part 3
With so much happening inside and outside the flight simulator, the rest of the crew and the host of the show had to keep an eye on everything that's happening. Without crowding the inside of the simulator while it's, well, simulating, our crew had to think outside of...
Making A Huge Broadcast Shoot Happen: Part 2
Following up on our previous post in this series, we were recording footage from 4 different Toshiba Ice Cube cameras, as well as 2 additional Canon C300s outside of the aircraft simulator. The Ice Cubes record to their own individual decks, and the C300s recorded to...
Making A Huge Broadcast Shoot Happen: Part 1
The Atlantic crew worked on a television show that recently started broadcasting on National Geographic. It was one of the most technically complicated shoots we worked on just last year alone. And since all of us at Atlantic are all secretly (or perhaps...
Atlantic Highlights “Games of Thrones” Creator
George R.R. Martin is an interesting fellow. Not only in appearance, but also through his writing, his persona, and his anecdotes. We recently got the chance to shoot an interview with the man, the myth, the legend himself for a "Games of Thrones" highlight reel....
Snow? What Snow?
Despite some major hype from our brethren in the media, we are happy to announce that the dreaded Snowpocalypse 2015 didn't slow down any of our productions or anyone on our team this week. And now, a day later, we're treated to some scenic, snow-laden New York City...
Atlantic Rolls With Rock History
At the Atlantic office in New York, we play classic rock pretty much every other day on the speakers. So when the opportunity came up to shoot interviews with Andy Summers, former guitarist of '70's and '80s rock band The Police, as well as legendary audio engineer...
Atlantic Helps Prove That People Don’t Listen
You're on a plane. Everything is going well. They just came around with the snack cart; you decide not to pay $6 for a special pack of cheese and a Sprite. Fine. The plane jutters for a second--no worries. It jutters again. That's odd, right? BAM! The lights go out...
The Tim Geithner Sandbag
So, we used a sandbag as a stand-in for the former Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner. An Atlantic team consisting of a camera operator, sound recordist, and one crafty coordinator shot a piece-to-camera with Geithner introducing a video challenge that will be...
The Mysterious Sandbag and the Sony F800
What does a black sandbag have in common with a Sony F800? Better yet -- what do a sandbag and an F800 have in common in a white cyclotron? You'll find out. Stay tuned, folks!
Be a CF Card Hero in 2015
Hello everyone! We're back to the production grind after celebrating an excellent end to 2014, and we look forward to a stellar 2015. A big thank you to everyone who has made Atlantic a success thus far! We truly couldn't be here today if we didn't have every single...