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SGO Mistika Supports Grupo 7
Spanish Awards Nominations

Director Alberto Rodriguez’s latest ﬁlm Grupo 7

T

he complete post-production
of Director Alberto Rodriguez’s
latest film Grupo 7 was achieved
using SGO’s Mistika.
The film has been nominated to
win 16 Spanish Academy Goya
Awards, for categories that include
‘Best Visual Effects’ and ‘Best
Photography’. The Mistika system

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was selected for its advanced
toolsets for the entire visual effects
process, which included colour
grading, compositing, as well as
mastering and DCP creation.
Grupo 7 (Unit 7) was filmed using
various high-end digital cameras
with majority of the footage captured
on two Red One Mysterium X

cameras at 4K. “Due to a wide range
of formatted material, Mistika was
a huge help in matching different
shots from various formats, and
giving them a consistent look
throughout the film” says Juan
Ventura, Colourist and FX Supervisor.
“During post-production we were
a bit concerned with some of the
shots where the edge of the image
was too sharp and also some
aliasing had occurred.
"Mistika helped us to resolve this
in real-time at 4K, without rescaling
the material. The change to 2K was
achieved using Mistika to correct
these issues by adding blurs and
re-focusing areas, where required.”
Grupo 7 is a compelling action
movie about a police combat and
campaign against drug trafficking.
Since its release, box office
figures have already exceeded 2
million Euros.

DPA Records For Les Miserables
A

ward-winning Production
Sound Mixer Simon Hayes
selected DPA 4071 Lavalier
Microphones to capture live audio
for Les Miserables.
DPA Microphones played an
integral part in recording the
audio for the film version of the
hit musical Les Miserables, which
features an all-star cast including
Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and
Anne Hathaway.
Nominated for nine BAFTA
Awards, including one for
Sound, Les Miserables used an
innovative technique that involved
recording vocals live on set with
the cast singing to a live piano

accompaniment played to them
through earpieces.
Production Sound Mixer Simon
Hayes, who was responsible for
capturing the film’s entire audio
content, says it was a truly unique
way of working and one that would
not have been possible without DPA
4071 lavalier microphones.
“When judging different lavaliers
I had always considered the
differences in sound between
various brands of lavalier to be a
matter of taste. That was until I
listened to a DPA up against the
competition. In my opinion the
DPA is better, more open sounding,
less chesty and sounds more like a

Adobe Unveils
Cloud Update
GBR: Adobe Systems Incorporated
has revealed a major update to its
Adobe Creative Cloud offering.
During the Create Now online
event, the company announced that
Creative Cloud members will now
have access to over a dozen exclusive
new features for Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe highlighted the customer
momentum behind Creative Cloud,
with more than a million free and
paid memberships, including
approximately 326,000 paid
individual members who have signed
up through November 2012.

Doremi China
Servers Deal
USA: Doremi has announced the
sale of 350 digital cinema servers
to China’s Wanda Cinema Line.
Wanda Cinema Line has 100
premium cinemas with plans to
have more than 1,000 screens
across China from this month.
It will add another 35
cinemas with 350 screens
in China by the end of 2013.
The acquisition of Doremi's
Integrated Media Block (IMB) with
ShowVault digital cinema servers
will supplement its continued rapid
expansion across Asia.

Calrec Audio For
Pinewood Studios
Simon Hayes on set with the Les
Miserables sound crew

boom mic than any other lavaliers
I have heard.”
Hayes had 50 DPA 4071 lavalier
microphones at his disposal during
the filming of Les Miserables, all of
which were supplied by Richmond
Films in conjunction with DPA’s UK
distributor Sound Network.

GBR: International production
powerhouse Pinewood Studios
Group has installed an Artemis
Beam console in its new
5.1-capable sound-control gallery
to mix audio for live and recorded
television shows, the first of which
was a children’s show for BBC.
The sound-control gallery is part
of a new television studio facility in
Buckinghamshire, England, which
includes all new control galleries
and equipment.

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