Avid and Law & Order HD
I am always interested in how the major production company produce the primetime television shows and major films. As an online editor at the Los Angeles-based post facility FotoKem Film & Video, Bill Admans has worked on several of the primetime shows in the Law & Order franchise including the veteran Criminal Intent, starting its fifth season this September, and Conviction, which concluded its first season this year.
Conviction is one of the first primetime shows to be shot in HD with the new Panavision Genesis digital film camera. The camera is designed not only to acquire the full bandwidth of HD-RGB data, but also to more closely match the color qualities and subtleties of traditional 35mm film. The Genesis camera uses HDCam SR RGB 4:4:4 tape.
A typical hour-long dramatic episode for primetime network TV costs approximately $1 million to produce. Since the network license fee covers only about $600,000, the studio needs to make up a shortfall of approximately $400,000 per show. The studios typically do this by selling the series into syndication, to off-network sales, to basic cable, to international sales, and so on.
"We're in the business of creating an asset that will have value on the shelf for the studio for the next 20, 30, 40 years."
- Bill Admans, Director of Creative Editorial, FotoKem
Check all the details about the new Law and Order Conviction.
