tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49678328265975966462024-03-13T09:01:22.980-07:00NEWS Randall Dark ProductionsRandall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03264116327845737327noreply@blogger.comBlogger172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-15934042108232901752018-01-17T18:49:00.000-08:002018-01-18T18:50:28.439-08:00Spotlight: Randall P. Dark<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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MediaTech Ventures Director, <b><a href="https://seobrien.com/paul-obrien" target="_blank">Paul O'Brien</a> </b>caught up with HD Pioneer, Randall Dark at a coffee shop in Austin, Texas. They talked about the longevity of Dark's storied career. Below is his interview found<b> <a href="https://mediatech.ventures/spotlight-randall-p-dark" target="_blank">here</a></b>.<br />
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If you’re old enough to have used a cassette tape, I’d be surprised if that photo isn’t imprinted on the back of your brain as it was one of the iconic images of the 1980’s. That anonymous man in the chair, who he was and what we were experiencing in that poster – music, speakers, print, early MusicTech – in many way exemplify, by inspiring, what you might think of as a MediaTech professional.
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I sat in a local coffee shop in Austin, TX, months ago, and shared passions and possibilities with a now clean(er) cut and gray Randall Dark.<br />
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In meeting for the first time, I had no idea that the poster from my youth, a poster that got me excited about music and audio, had Dark so early in my life as to influence my path toward media innovation. He’s an exciting personality, visionary, passionate, and just what you’d expect from a Canadian: a person you just enjoy spending time with.
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Today, Dark is a director, producer, writer, cinematographer, and media consultant who has not only embraced new camera technology, he is considered by the television industry to be one of the guiding thought leaders and adopters of the HD medium. Since seeing HD first in 1986, if you can believe, he has gone on to capture on the screen Julie Andrews, Bill Clinton, Willie Nelson, Harry Connick Jr., Leonard Nimoy, Lyle Lovett, Sting, and Stephen Hawking.
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<i>“Because high definition was so real and so vivid — the colours were perfect, you could see the tiniest detail — I believed that if you had a 65-inch TV in your home and you watched a documentary about starving children, it would touch your heart in a way that you would have to react,” says Dark. “I believed it was a technology that would have an impact on people and change their hearts. I honestly believed it would change humanity.”
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Evidence of our vision that media cross pollinates throughout music, video, and other formats, Dark, found himself from Canada (he’s a native of Saskatchewan) to New York City, working out of the Ed Sullivan Theatre, where he worked with bands like Aerosmith and Crosby, Stills and Nash. He helped build one of the first multi-camera, high-definition production trucks and shot Victor-Victoria on Broadway with Julie Andrews. We all know the significance of the media in sports and Dark was behind the camera for Super Bowl XXX and NBA All-Star games as well as the first to broadcast in high definition a live sporting event to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. as the American Public looked to Congress and the FCC to determine if high definition was a viable new TV standard for the United States.
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In 2013, he found himself collaborating with Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Connick Jr., Connie Britten and Lyle Lovett as one of the executive producers of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_4LG9YUTfQ" target="_blank"><b>Angels Sing</b></a> and of watching Nelson and Connick Jr. create a new song, he noted, “I got to watch these two geniuses at work. My life is so amazing. I have never been star-struck working with celebrities because people are just people. I think what happens is so many big name stars get worshipped and people go ‘I’m a big fan’ and it gets tiring after a while. I think, because I am an expert in my field I can sit down and say, ‘Hey, I know nothing about what you do but do you want to know about high definition?'”
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I could relate. This is the guy who sat the chair of a poster on my wall for years when I was growing up. Yeah, I’m that much of a media geek that I had a Maxell cassette tape poster on my wall. I was a little star-struck, here I was having coffee with an inspiration of mine that I’d not even realized until I met him. Dark, pointedly, wasn’t in that original chair; his influence is such that he recreated it with Maxell.
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Dark is a media personality that we want to spotlight not just because of my personal connection with him. He is known for taking the experimental approach that we want to challenge everyone to embrace. He’s long been digital technologies and as we all wonder at HOW we can afford quality media production, whether we’re advertising, producing a film, or in need of a music video, he just does it. For his 2012 documentary <b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2357309/" target="_blank">Seadrift vs The Big Guy</a></b>, he used an Apple iPhone and a 4K camera. Whatever it takes.
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Truly, embracing all forms of media. If you’re as inspired to write as am I, you can appreciate that bubbling in the back of such a brain are stories to be told, and not always through video. Dark wrote a children’s play some 25 years ago, Tale of Sasquatch, and found it later published by the Playwrights Guild of Canada. Today, it’s an animated mobile app, available now [<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.everaftertales.sasquatch" target="_blank"><b>android</b></a> | <b><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tale-of-sasquatch/id976735663?mt=8" target="_blank">apple</a></b>].
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What brought us together to share chairs in a coffee shop was our alignment on so many ideas for the future of media and it’s therein that I’d like to encourage you to get to know Randall Dark. Thinking globally and in the sense of how networking and education will drive forward our media economy, he co-founded the <a href="http://www.lifeofguangzhou.com/node_981/node_989/node_996/node_1017/node_1045/2011/10/24/131944257792454.shtml" target="_blank"><b>Macao China International Digital Camera Festival</b></a> and serves today as its artistic director. He, as do we, works with companies and non-profit organizations on how to use technology to grow their businesses.<br />
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To see articles written about Randall and the projects he has been involved in, check out his<b> <a href="http://randalldarknews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a></b>. Curious about listening to more of his story? Join him on Marsha Casper Cook’s podcast <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/worldofinknetwork/2018/01/04/its-all-about-entertainment-movies-books-screenplays-plays" target="_blank"><b>World Of Ink Network</b></a> as they explore even writing books beyond producing movies.
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<br />Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03264116327845737327noreply@blogger.com271tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-36241652661671278452017-11-16T15:00:00.000-08:002017-11-16T15:00:31.702-08:00ANGELS SING Holiday Broadcasts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Relive the holiday magic and inspirational moments of <b>"Angels Sing"</b> on the Hallmark Channel starting this Saturday, November 18 through December 21. Executive produced by Randall P. Dark, the film has been a perennial favorite by the network.<br />
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Sunday, November 26 - 11am/10c<br />
Friday, December 1 - 7am/6c<br />
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A father's holiday spirit was crushed by an accident when he was a child. When his son faces a tragedy, a mysterious man instills in him the courage to find the joy he lost. Stars Harry Connick Jr. and Connie Britton, with guest appearances by Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, and Kris Kristofferson.<br />
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<br />Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03264116327845737327noreply@blogger.com114tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-80104372712685827672017-10-05T11:00:00.001-07:002017-11-16T13:43:32.892-08:00Guest Speaker for Inmates<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On October 4th, Randall Dark had the opportunity to mentor a group of young men being held in the Travis County jail in Austin, Texas.<br />
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As a filmmaker, Dark encouraged the inmates by offering a new perspective and equipping them with the tools needed for life-lasting change.<br />
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Nearly 10% of the county's inmate population is between the ages of 17 and 20.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">source: <a href="https://www.tcsheriff.org/images/about/docs/Newsletter_OCT_17.pdf" target="_blank">Travis County Sheriff's Office</a></span><br />
<br />Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03264116327845737327noreply@blogger.com234tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-75718748278558921972017-04-25T15:00:00.000-07:002017-11-16T14:24:13.161-08:002017 Studio50 Honorees Revealed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Randall P. Dark was chosen as FILMMAKER in the category of THE INDEPENDENTS. Here is his interview:</div>
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Randall Dark is a long-standing innovator in digital video, having founded HD Vision in New York City in 1992, becoming one of the first specialists in the technology behind HDTV. More recently, he has been executive producer on films including <i>Angels Sing</i>, featuring Harry Connick Jr., Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, and the documentaries <i>Makarios: A Rising Tide</i> and <i>Seadrift vs. the Big Guy</i>. He also produced the trailer for the Howard Lukk-directed SMPTE documentary <i>Moving Images</i>. He runs Randall Dark Productions out of Austin, TX. </div>
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See the entire list of StudioDaily's 2017 honorees <a href="http://www.studiodaily.com/studio-50/" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.</div>
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<br />Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03264116327845737327noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-8753942177211546102017-04-20T15:50:00.004-07:002017-04-20T15:54:00.496-07:00Video Didn’t Kill the Radio Star, It Just Gave It a New Platform<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Recently, Randall Dark participated on a panel of video production professionals to discuss video and how it relates to start ups.<br />
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Held at Impact Hub Austin, the panel talked about how startups can use video – where it can bring them the most value to finding the resources to produce it.<br />
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With that shift to smartphones and VR, audiences have become increasingly harder to attract and keep interested in companies and products.<br />
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When creating video, Dark noted, “Our attention span has shrunk dramatically. I need to be compelling in the first 15 seconds."<br />
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Along with Dark on the panel were Lyn Graft, Carlana Stone and Pat 'Shaggy' Welsh.<br />
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Read an article on the event on <b><a href="https://mediatech.ventures/video-didnt-kill-radio-star-just-gave-new-platform" target="_blank">mediatech VENTURES</a></b>.</div>
Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03264116327845737327noreply@blogger.com267tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-13966524570634024712017-04-04T14:00:00.000-07:002017-11-16T14:23:51.520-08:00Dark Selected as HonoreeRandall P. Dark has been named a 2017 StudioDaily 50 Awards Honoree!<br />
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The StudioDaily 50 recognizes influential creatives and technologists whose leadership breaks new ground in media and entertainment.<br />
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The List is populated by executives and producers who make great work happen; directors, cinematographers and editors who push the creative envelope; and scientists, engineers, inventors and other innovators who keep pushing the state of the creative arts.<br />
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StudioDaily announces the 50 honorees on its inaugural list of the StudioDaily 50 — key creatives and technologists whose leadership and influence in all parts of the industry who are breaking new ground in media and entertainment.
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The list honors executives from major corporations, visionary creative thinkers, technology mavens who make awe-inspiring images possible and specialists in advertising, B2B communications and more who do great work on a national, regional, or local scale. Through their leadership, expertise and execution, these are the people who make media and entertainment such a vibrant industry.
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The complete list of StudioDaily 50 honorees and profiles will be announced on Tuesday, April 25. In recognition of his accomplishment, Dark will be honored during the <a href="http://www.studiodaily.com/2017PrimeAwards" target="_blank"><b>StudioDaily 2017 Prime Awards</b></a> presentation on the NAB show floor.Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03264116327845737327noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-19800983010059927122017-01-03T12:17:00.000-08:002017-01-03T20:15:49.251-08:00Dark to discuss new project on inspiration through music<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Randall P. Dark will join Jeanette Arsenault for a live interview with Marsha Casper Cook on The World of Ink Radio Network, Wednesday January 4 at 4:30 EST/3:30 CST/2:30 MT/1:30 PST.<br />
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The discussion centers on the collaborative project about Arsenault’s brother Ron, who has cerebral palsy. He lives in Canada at St. Joseph Hospital Complex Care due to his particular needs.<br />
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Dark brings his skills as writer, producer/director to tell the heartfelt story of how Arsenault's music, inspired by her brother, motivates her to help others by touching their hearts through song.<br />
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Together they plan to explore the emotional subject many people face each day when a crisis strikes their family.<br />
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Listen to the interview here: <a href="http://bit.ly/2hOzgEn"><b>http://bit.ly/2hOzgEn</b></a>Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03264116327845737327noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-65604179232441202572016-12-19T19:49:00.000-08:002016-12-19T19:49:58.753-08:00High Definition Visionary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The University of Ottawa's monthly publication TABARET highlights the stories that have shaped and continue to shape the university's history. Along with discoveries by professors, they highlight outstanding alumni.<br />
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Recently, Mike Foster profiled high definition visionary and alumnus, Randall P. Dark. The following is an excerpt from the story:<br />
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Randall P. Dark (BA ʼ79, Honours), one of the pioneers of high definition television, says he embraced the technology because he believed sharper images had the power to change the world. But it wasn't easy convincing film industry bigwigs of the merits of HD.
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"I was laughed at many, many times," says Dark. "After one demonstration of HD to some of the top cinematographers, directors and producers in New York City, I was viciously attacked. They were saying it looked like video, it was horrible, it was never going to happen. I remember one of my staff asking me, 'Randall, how do you feel? They tore you apart.' But I was elated. I said, 'Did you see how passionately vicious they were, how much they hated it? If it touched them that much, we're on to something.'"
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Today, Dark is a producer, director, cinematographer, writer and media consultant who has shot some of the most famous personalities in high definition, including Julie Andrews, Willie Nelson, Harry Connick Jr., Lyle Lovett, Sting, Bill Clinton, Leonard Nimoy and Stephen Hawking. He is considered by the television industry to be a visionary guru who has played a key role in advancing the HD medium.
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Dark compares the moment he first saw HD in Toronto in 1986 to someone seeing a Model T Ford during the days of horses and carriages.
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"My brain fired and I thought this was going to be the future of so many things. I wanted to help bring it to the world and I was blessed enough to be involved in so much of the roll-out," says Dark.
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"Because high definition was so real and so vivid — the colours were perfect, you could see the tiniest detail — I believed that if you had a 65-inch TV in your home and you watched a documentary about starving children, it would touch your heart in a way that you would have to react," says Dark. "I believed it was a technology that would have an impact on people and change their hearts. I honestly believed it would change humanity."
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In the mid-1980s, he worked on the CBC's Chasing Rainbows, the first television mini-series to be recorded in HD. From there, he moved to New York City, working out of the Ed Sullivan Theatre, which was sometimes used in those days as a high definition sound stage for MTV's Unplugged series. He got to work with bands like Aerosmith and Crosby, Stills and Nash.
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In 1992, he founded HD Vision Inc., an HD production and post-production company in New York and Dallas, Texas.
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"I was one of the first in the world to build multi-camera, high-definition production trucks. I got to shoot Victor-Victoria on Broadway with Julie Andrews. I got to shoot Super Bowl XXX. We got to shoot the NBA All-Star game. I was the first to broadcast in high definition a live sporting event to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. where members of the (U.S.) Congress and the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) analyzed the images to determine if high definition was a viable new TV standard for the United States. I ended up doing a lot of the very first events because I was one of the only people in the world to own HD trucks," says Dark.
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He later co-founded HD Vision Studios in 2002 in Los Angeles and, in 2007, Randall Dark Productions LP. Over the years, he has been involved in around 2,000 feature films, documentaries, music videos, commercials and corporate presentations.
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One of his latest projects is the film Angels Sing. Released in 2013, it features Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Connick Jr., Connie Britten and Lyle Lovett. As one of the executive producers, he got to watch Nelson and Connick Jr. create a new song, which plays during the film's credits.
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"I got to watch these two geniuses at work. My life is so amazing," says Dark. "I have never been star-struck working with celebrities because people are just people. I think what happens is so many big name stars get worshipped and people go 'I'm a big fan' and it gets tiring after a while. I think, because I am an expert in my field I can sit down and say, 'Hey, I know nothing about what you do but do you want to know about high definition?'"
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Dark is also known for taking an experimental approach and mixing a variety of digital technologies. In his documentary Seadrift vs The Big Guy (2012), which follows contestants in the 260-mile Texas Water Safari canoe race, he used everything from an Apple iPhone to a 4K camera, which yields a resolution four times higher than standard HD.
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"I used 20 different types of camera technology to do that documentary, everything from cutting-edge 4K to high-definition sunglasses to shoot it. I think I used a total of 40 cameras," says Dark.<br />
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Speed Junkies: Randall Dark and Sharon Rankin on Fast from the Past
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Filmmaker Randall Dark brought a lot of cameras to his latest shoot. Fast from the Past, the pilot-in-progress for a proposed reality-based television series following everyday characters as they rebuild classic muscle cars into racing vehicles to take out on the track. The project originated with Mark Mcilyar, a self-taught mechanic, body shop owner and vintage race-car driver who acts as producer, host and storyliner for the program. Dark describes Mcilyar and his friends as "interesting people with an outrageous hobby" worthy of a series dedicated to their exploits. We talked to Dark, director and cinematographer on the pilot, and his colleague Sharon Rankin, who helped wrangle cameras and shot behind-the-scenes stills for the project.<br />
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Randall Dark: I love all sports. If it's 'the best in the world,' I'm there — whether it's tiddlywinks, the Olympics, or these crazy people putting together these cars. We follow a dentist and a fireman in their adventures racing on the Indianapolis Speedway. So when the show's host, Mark Mcilyar, brought the project to me, he had me at 'hello.'
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RD: I brought a 4K JVC camera and a Canon camera, but I also had 10 GoPros and 10 JVC ADIXXION cameras with me. Part of telling the story is that you don't want to be up in the stands. You need the wide shot, but also the medium shot and the tight shot to tell a story. And it's innovative companies like JVC and GoPro and Canon, et cetera, who've developed the technology that gets people like me and Sharon inside events instead of outside of them.
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Sharon Rankin: I'm a Nikon shooter. I brought Nikon D3s with four different lenses, and I had just tried the Sony a7R II.
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RD: I've shot NASCAR and other speed events, and it's really tricky to get cameras in certain places on these cars. The cars are unbelievably expensive, for one thing, and normally the professional drivers don't want you filming where you can see them doing their secret things. But what's different about a fireman and a dentist is that they are so generous and nice. We were allowed complete access.
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RD: The JVC action camera has a side LCD viewfinder and a zoom lens, so I can put it on the outside of cars, inside them, on the top of them. But when I was framing, with a GoPro you're running and gunning so you set it there and hope the angle is right and off it goes. But with a viewfinder and a zoom lens, I was able to get cool shots, zooming in or out a little bit for more flexibility. The JVC 4K camera was a very portable run-and-gun camera with an attached mic. I also brought a Canon HDV camera, and we brought in the 5D Mark II. I try to keep my camera technology as light as possible. I would use a more elaborate rig with a matte box and filters on a feature film like Angels Sing, but for this project I couldn't tell the story I wanted to tell with big technology.
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RD: Yes, and here's why. When you shoot an interview, you can shoot it at 4K and light it beautifully and it looks great. When you've got a GoPro or a JVC portable camera on the outside of a car racing by and you intercut that footage, your brain forgives the difference in image quality. You accept the difference in resolution because of the type of shot you're seeing.
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SR: There was a shot that I took in the aisleway next to the racetrack where you see the car coming toward the camera. That was one of my favorite shots, partly because I was leaning out into the track and the car, in order to pass, came probably within a foot of me at 200 mph. I was pelted with stones and debris. For me, getting that shot was exhilarating and as scary as anything.
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RD: I really loved some of the POV shots I was able to get with the portable technology that I never could have gotten if I had to crawl in with the driver. I do love one shot that Sharon took. I was using one of the JVC cameras to shoot a car going by, and it looks like I've got a gun and I'm shooting at them. If you're a spectator, and you don't know that it's a tiny camera, you're wondering why that guy's following the car like he's got a lightsaber or something.
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RD: When I did <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1907719/" target="_blank">Makarios: A Rising Tide</a>, I was in the Dominican Republic, shooting in a village that had no running water or electricity. In that environment, I moved slowly, quietly and respectfully. I'm going into their impoverished environment to tell their story as best I can, with as much respect as possible. My style in that world was calm, quiet. I became a different type of director because the environment required me to be a different type of person. On the Indy 500 racetrack I can get away with running around screaming and yelling because the track is so loud, but it's a type of energy I'm bringing to the type of cinematography I'm trying to create. You can't go around screaming in someone's house. If you look at the documentaries I've done, you'll see a different type of feeling and camerawork because the story I'm trying to tell demands it. Not because "Randall Dark's style is to use a shaky-cam."
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RD: One thing Sharon has taught me is to believe in vertical marketing. A lot of the time, I'm so busy directing or shooting that I forget about getting the shots that I need for marketing. Sharon, how many shots did you take?<br />
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RD: It's a lot of work for her to find those shots. But all of a sudden, I'm talking to broadcast and distribution and they ask, 'What do you have [to promote this]?' To say we have an edited program and behind-the-scenes photography, it just makes it a better package for presentation.<br />
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On Thursday, March 10 at 11 pm ET / 10 pm CT, join the conversation with Randall P. Dark on Deadly Reads Radio.<br />
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Randall will be talking about HDTV, of course, and loads of other fascinating topics... like his play and children's app <b><a href="http://everaftertales.com/apps/tale-of-sasquatch-by-randall-paris-dark/" target="_blank">Tale of Sasquatch</a>,</b> and his brand new play and children's app <b>Easter Frog: The Brains Behind the Bunny</b>.<br />
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Click <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/journeyintothenight/2016/03/11/spend-the-evening-with-producer-director-and-cinematographer-randall-p-dark" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a> to listen to the interview. Call in live to talk with Randall at 646-668-2716.Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03264116327845737327noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-90699607287786635312015-06-29T12:08:00.000-07:002015-07-02T12:21:10.576-07:00Randall P. Dark Named to Caucus Foundation Advisory BoardLOS ANGELES, June 29, 2015 - The Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors Foundation announced its new <a href="http://www.caucusfoundation.org/about_board.html" target="_blank">Board of Directors</a> and a milestone $1.4 million awarded through its national <a href="http://www.caucusfoundation.org/grants.html" target="_blank">Student Grant Program</a>. The program combats the lack of diversity in content and creatives working in the entertainment industry by helping to launch the careers of student filmmakers from currently underrepresented groups.<br />
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Producer Randall P. Dark, director John C. Moffitt and producer Frank von Zerneck were named to a newly created Advisory Board. The alumni network welcomed new CFAN President, Karen Pyudik, a 2001 grant recipient, who completed her masters degree at AFI and is a producer at 124th Street Films.
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Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955956175738289228noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-71958375506710541972015-05-12T19:35:00.000-07:002015-05-12T19:35:12.602-07:00Producer Randall Dark and Director Howard Lukk on "Moving Images"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Producer Randall Dark and Director Howard Lukk discuss the forthcoming SMPTE documentary "<a href="https://www.smpte.org/moving-images-documentary" target="_blank">Moving Images</a>" at NAB 2015.Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955956175738289228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-66399831808809191752015-04-21T10:30:00.000-07:002016-01-04T09:59:47.317-08:00Featured Playwright Q & A with Randall Dark<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Playwrights Guild of Canada recently talked to Randall Dark about his love for theatre and technology, turning a play into a mobile app, and finding new ways to reach a broader audience. His "Tale of Sasquatch" is now available in the iTunes store and for Android in the Google Store. <br />
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iTunes - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tale-of-sasquatch/id976735663?mt=8">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tale-of-sasquatch/id976735663?mt=8</a>
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<b>Q: Your play "The Tale of Sasquatch" is now available on the Apple Appstore and Googlestore. What was it about this particular play that made you think it would lend itself to being transformed into an interactive ebook?
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A: During the 80's "Tale of Sasquatch" was produced many times throughout Canada both as a stage play and a touring play that was performed in city parks and schools. I found that the interaction between the audience and actors enhanced the play and I saw how the children became more animated.
A few years ago, I did a major re-write and added an additional character to the the play that would further increase the interaction. When Hal Waite told me about his interactive ebook initiative I immediately saw the potential for this play to be a great fit.
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<b>Q: You are recognized for your work as a technological visionary. Your work in High Definition projects have included feature films, documentaries, music videos and corporate presentations. Additionally, you have also been the recipient of the International Electronic Cinema Festival's Pioneer Award and are a member of the Television Arts and Sciences Academy and the Consumer Electronics Association's Academy of Digital Pioneers. It's safe to say that you are very tech-savvy. How did you come up with the idea to create an app from one of your plays? How involved were you in the design process?
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A: A few years ago, I had a conversation with Hal Waite, who is an extremely talented filmmaker with a stellar resume in the world of children's content. Hal told me about Ever After Tales and his plan to create this cool app for kids. He was looking for stories and invited me to share my work with him. Although I've written a number of children's plays over the years, I thought "Tale of Sasquatch" had the most potential for fun images and unique interaction.
Panagiotis Rappas created the illustrations and I'm so pleased with his vision. He was very generous, seeking my feedback along the way, but it was largely unnecessary since he brilliantly interpreted my characters.
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A: Although I have a reputation of being "tech-savvy" in the world of high definition, in this instance I was able to enjoy being the writer while the Ever After Tales team forged the technology journey.
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<b>Q: What have you learned from the experience of turning your play into an app? Do you think that by doing so, "The Tale of Sasquatch" can still be considered a play?
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A: The most important lesson was staying true to what originally worked as a play. I didn't try to re-invent the story or alter the characters. I believed that what made my story unique in the world of theatre would carry over into the world of app technology.
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Hal and Panagiotis kept the play format when they created the app and in the "About / Info" section, I describe a Three Act play and created "Rupert's Ten Acting Words Of Wisdom" as well as "Rupert Dictionary of Theatrical Terms From A to Z". I thought a young reader would find it interesting.
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I think a good story crosses over the boundaries of technology and as writers we owe it to ourselves to push not only the traditional writer/audience theatrical relationship but also embrace new ways of getting our plays to a broader audience. I honestly don't care if my plays are seen in a theatre or on a iPad, iPhone or Tablet. I just want to share the world I created with as large an audience as possible.
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<b>Q: Is integrating your theatrical work with new media a priority for you? Has it changed your writing process in any way? How important is it for you to find new ways for audiences to interact with your work?
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A: My career has be defined by being on the bleeding edge of technology (especially in the early years of high definition), so it seemed only natural to combine my love of theatre and my fascination with technology. My writing process hasn't changed, but my writing has. Understanding the technology allowed me to write scenes that are enhanced by these new tools. It has allowed me to find exciting new ways to interact with the audience.
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A: I'm currently producing a documentary feature titled, "Moving Images" which will explore the contributions of SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) to the last 100 years of film and television. I'm also working on two new children's plays that are intended exclusively for app distribution. One of the two is being co-authored by William Lucas and will include original songs full of fun, clever lyrics. <br />
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courtesy <a href="http://www.playwrightsguild.ca/news/featured-playwright-q-randall-dark" target="_blank"><b>Playwrights Guild of Canada</b></a><br />
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A proposal for Rupert in the interactive ebook "Tale of Sasquatch" written by Randall P. Dark. Soon to be available from Ever After Tales as an app in Applestore and Googlestore.</div>
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<i>Stage design of "Tale of Sasquatch" from Ever After Tales</i></div>
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<b>Ever After Tales</b> is also delighted to present: "Tale of Sasquatch", by Randall Dark, acclaimed Canadian theater and film director and high definition TV pioneer. This great story, which has been very popular in Canada as a theater play, is published for the first time worldwide in interactive e-book format. "Tale of Sasquatch" will soon be available in English, Spanish and Greek via Applestore and Googlestore.<br />
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“Tale of Sasquatch” follows the misadventures of Rupert (or Woopert, as he would say) and his best friend Mr. Stinky the sock, as they search the woods for food. Faced with wacky challenges and hilarious encounters with quirky characters, the story is really about feeling like there’s something “wrong” with you — and discovering that it’s okay to be different. During their quest, they wrestle with good vs. bad and ultimately stumble upon the origin of Sasquatch!<br />
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More at Ever After Tales <a href="http://everaftertales.com/apps/tale-of-sasquatch-by-randall-paris-dark/" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955956175738289228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-25813591157629168272015-01-06T17:28:00.000-08:002015-01-24T17:30:00.755-08:00SMPTE Producing Documentary on the Story of Imaging for Its 100th BirthdayFor its centennial celebration next year, SMPTE is producing a historical documentary on the human stories behind motion-imaging technology.<br />
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The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) will be 100 years old in 2016. To commemorate the event, SMPTE has chosen Randall Dark, a Texas-based motion-imaging technology specialist, as producer of the film. Howard Lukk, former vice president of production technology at The Walt Disney Studios, is directing.<br />
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The documentary, which has the working title “Moving Images,” will embrace the excitement and human stories surrounding the development of motion-imaging technology from the turn of the 20th century through the present.<br />
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“What makes documentaries compelling are not just fact after fact after fact, but the stories of the compelling people involved that maybe we don’t know about,” said Dark. “We will tell the story of SMPTE even before it was founded. The group came about due to what was happening with early inventions prior to 1916. We want tell the story of the people who made this all happen.”<br />
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Among the topics in the film will be the development of color bars, time code, digital cinema standards, timed text and the transport of high bit rate media signals over IP networks. There are plenty of other topics to choose from, since SMPTE has developed more than 800 standards, recommended practices and engineering guidelines over its lifetime.<br />
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For Dark, it’s the human side of technology that’s most important to the success of the documentary. “A lot of very talented people are telling incredible stories because of SMPTE. We are in pre-production and meetings and calling people over the next few weeks to determine the actual structure of what we want to do. We are determining who we want to talk to. This project will take a considerable amount of time based on the complexity of the story. It is not a simple story to tell. There are so many moving parts.”<br />
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Most of the shooting will take place in the United States, Canada and Europe, Dark said. “To keep the look consistent, there will be a small core crew, though we will hire some freelancers in some cities.”<br />
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Dark said many great documentaries are made that shine light on important subjects like poverty and other human plights. But this one, he said, will be different.<br />
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“This film is important because it will show how we view our world,” he said. “We have high definition television and cinema and each day our lives are greatly influenced by these technologies. SMPTE helped bring them to the table. At the end of the day, I think this documentary will be important because it shows how we got where we are and the people who made it possible.<br />
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“We wouldn’t be able to do this past, present and future story without an organization like SMPTE. These are the stories of the people who made my own career happen. If it wasn’t for this group, I would never have discovered HD in the mid-80s. How cool is that? I’m blown away having the opportunity to work on this film.”<br />
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Dark and his team are plowing ahead with the production. The group will produce a trailer to show at NAB 2015. It is his goal to have the film finished by late this year, in time to enter into competition for various film festivals. “We’ll begin shooting as early as mid-January,” he said. “But the full project will take months and months to shoot and edit.”<br />
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Read the full article by Frank Beacham at <a href="https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/1134/smpte-producing-documentary-on-the-story-of-imaging-for-its-100th-birthday#.VK3d3wujVp0.twitter">The Broadcasting Bridge</a>.Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955956175738289228noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-36213107758782168372015-01-02T02:00:00.000-08:002015-01-24T18:48:12.513-08:00"Tale of Sasquatch" coming in 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Something very exciting is happening with "Tale of Sasquatch," a children's fairy tale by Randall Paris Dark.<br />
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The story chronicles the misadventures of Rupert as he begins his search in the woods for food. Frankly, though, Rupert could be anybody, including you. "Tale of Sasquatch" is really about feeling like there's something "wrong" with you - and discovering that it's okay to be different.<br />
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Watch for announcements about the latest development later this month!Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955956175738289228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-72993899256129521142014-12-23T16:18:00.000-08:002015-01-24T17:30:39.120-08:00HD and Beyond: A Conversation with Randall Dark<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Recently Broadcast Engineering Extra's Bob Kovacs sat down with HDTV pioneer Randall Dark to discuss the state of television production, as well as what to expect from the upcoming SMPTE production of "Moving Images," which looks at the history of cinema and television.<br />
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BE Extra: What is it about motion pictures and television that has made them lasting forms of communication and art?<br />
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Dark: <i>The traditional motion picture in a cinema is an immersive experience allowing an intense relationship between the story teller and the audience. Television also has this influence to a somewhat lesser degree, while having the advantage of allowing this communication to be immediate. Both art forms are powerful tools in the hands of creative people, and the evolving technology has allowed us to advance the art forms in many different ways that include sound and image quality, ultimately enhancing the viewing experience.</i><br />
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BE Extra: Tell us a little about the film that's tentatively titled Moving Images. What do you plan for it to contain? What is the intended audience?<br />
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Dark: <i>Moving Images is the story of the people behind moving-picture technology. It focuses on the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, which was founded in 1916, and will also look into the future. Filmmakers like Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are household names because of the way they managed to bring our imagination to life on screen. There are epic stories of triumph and tragedy amidst the engineers who painstakingly developed the technology and standards that ended up in the hands of creative filmmakers. This documentary will shine the spotlight on the unsung heroes who are the inventors and perfecters of what is arguably the most important communication tool in the history of the industrial age. There are many fascinating stories out there about how some amazing moments came to be, and we're going to pull back the curtain and show viewers how it all happens.
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Read the entire interview on <a href="http://www.tvtechnology.com/news/0086/hd-and-beyond-a-conversation-with-randall-dark/273878">TV Technology</a>.<br />
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The Oscar and Emmy Award-winning <a href="https://www.smpte.org/" target="_blank">Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)</a> has named motion imaging technology and creative visionary Randall Dark as producer of the feature length documentary, "Moving Images." Howard Lukk, former vice president of production technology at The Walt Disney Studios will direct from an initial treatment written by Chris Kenneally.<br />
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"Moving Images" will explore excitement surrounding the development of motion imaging technology from the turn of the twentieth century through the present while inquiring what the future has in store. Featuring interviews with top filmmakers, historians, entrepreneurs and engineers, the documentary will investigate the influence art and science have on each other.<br />
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"SMPTE has played a vital role in the advancement of movies and television for nearly 100 years. I'm so honored that I get to help tell the story of the people who literally invented the technology that I've built my entire career on," said Dark.<br />
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The SMPTE Board of Governors authorized the initial funding for the project for a 90-minute theatrical feature, as well as an abbreviated television version. In order to continue with the production work required, SMPTE is now seeking supporters to underwrite the project through an Indiegogo campaign. Supporters will become part of the SMPTE legacy of setting the standard for motion imaging.<br />
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For more information on the "Moving Images" documentary, <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/smpte-documentary-moving-images" target="_blank">visit the project's Indiegogo page</a>.<br />
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<br />Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955956175738289228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-31058716293043897252014-06-13T19:48:00.000-07:002014-06-13T19:48:51.170-07:00University of Ottawa Feature Story on Randall P. Dark<h2>
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The University of Ottawa's online magazine, Tabaret, is a digital publication highlighting the stories that have shaped and continue to shape the university's history. The June 2014 issue features an in-depth story on alum Randall P. Dark.</div>
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<i>"Because high definition was so real and so vivid, I believed that if you watched a documentary about starving children, it would touch your heart in a way that you would have to react."</i> ~ Randall P. Dark</div>
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Randall P. Dark (BA ʼ79, Honours), one of the pioneers of high definition television, says he embraced the technology because he believed sharper images had the power to change the world. But it wasn't easy convincing film industry bigwigs of the merits of HD.<br />
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"I was laughed at many, many times," says Dark. "After one demonstration of HD to some of the top cinematographers, directors and producers in New York City, I was viciously attacked. They were saying it looked like video, it was horrible, it was never going to happen. I remember one of my staff asking me, 'Randall, how do you feel? They tore you apart.' But I was elated. I said, 'Did you see how passionately vicious they were, how much they hated it? If it touched them that much, we're on to something.'"<br />
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Today, Dark is a producer, director, cinematographer, writer and media consultant who has shot some of the most famous personalities in high definition, including Julie Andrews, Willie Nelson, Harry Connick Jr., Lyle Lovett, Sting, Bill Clinton, Leonard Nimoy and Stephen Hawking. He is considered by the television industry to be a visionary guru who has played a key role in advancing the HD medium.<br />
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Dark compares the moment he first saw HD in Toronto in 1986 to someone seeing a Model T Ford during the days of horses and carriages.<br />
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"My brain fired and I thought this was going to be the future of so many things. I wanted to help bring it to the world and I was blessed enough to be involved in so much of the roll-out," says Dark.<br />
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"Because high definition was so real and so vivid — the colors were perfect, you could see the tiniest detail — I believed that if you had a 65-inch TV in your home and you watched a documentary about starving children, it would touch your heart in a way that you would have to react," says Dark. "I believed it was a technology that would have an impact on people and change their hearts. I honestly believed it would change humanity."
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Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955956175738289228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-67916485766368623812014-04-15T17:20:00.001-07:002014-04-15T17:21:02.811-07:00XiN Magazine Profile<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="http://www.xinmagazine.nl/" target="_blank">XiN Magazine</a></b> painted a vivid word portrait of Randall Paris Dark in China Stories. Read the article in Chinese and English <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2822171/Randall_Paris_Dark_XiNMagazine.pdf" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955956175738289228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-28283625714009474862014-02-26T12:40:00.000-08:002014-02-26T12:41:20.036-08:00Documentary Team Used Everything But the Kitchen Sink<h4>
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"Seadrift vs. The Big Guy" presents the viewer not only with an involving look at a group of very determined sports enthusiasts taking on a daunting physical challenge, but also a technological tour de force of digital filmmaking. The combination of video formats from cell phone to eyewear to 4K is impressively successful, demonstrating that source material can come from any perspective both subjectively from the participants and objectively from observers.</div>
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The result is that only the editorial selection of the shots the documentarian chooses to include sets the parameters of the ultimate communication, rather than the limitations of his or her production capabilities. In my opinion, by demonstrating the unlimited potential of multiple video formats, this "Seadrift vs. The Big Guy" is a landmark in the future of potential filmmaking.</div>
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Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955956175738289228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-10879256772130765542013-08-22T09:00:00.000-07:002013-08-22T22:09:08.841-07:00Behind the Camera: Randall DarkRandall P. Dark was interviewed for Randi Altman's postPerspective about choosing the right tools for the right job. Read the article in its entirety at <a href="http://www.postperspective.com/2013/08/behind-camera-randall-dark.html" target="_blank"><b>postPerspective</b></a>.<br />
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<br />Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955956175738289228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-47576661477347033802013-03-28T21:12:00.000-07:002013-04-10T21:13:54.531-07:00HD: Past, Present, FutureRandall P. Dark tells his story as an early adopter of HD to Post Magazine.<br />
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Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955956175738289228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4967832826597596646.post-38890045538934148302013-01-11T19:07:00.000-08:002013-01-11T19:10:16.897-08:00Random Thoughts from CESPost Magazine caught up with Randall Dark at CES, which included a little fun with singer/songwriter Lyle Lovett. Read all about it here: <a href="http://www.postmagazine.com/Post-Blog/2013/January/Even-more-random-thoughts-from-CES.aspx" target="_blank">Post Magazine</a>Randall Dark Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955956175738289228noreply@blogger.com1