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5 ways to make your acting showreel stand out
As a director and casting director of short films, I regularly go through hundreds of actor profiles on platforms like Lacasting, Spotlight, Mandy, Castforward and many others. It always strikes me how little aspiring actors seem to be invested in their showreels. In...
Vital Julian Frey on the marketing strategy for digital concert formats
Bachwochen Thun shines as a popular music festival in Switzerland with innovative concert formats and smart forms of cooperation. Epic Lab had the opportunity to talk to festival director Vital Julian Frey about the marketing strategy of the new concert format...
Actress Anna Brochmann about filming “The Rest Cure”
Anna Brochmann is the lead actress in the literary short film drama "The Rest Cure". Epic Lab had the opportunity to talk with her about the filming process and the special challenge to depict the role of Alice, a character based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novel...
Epic Lab responsible for “Digital concert” at Bachwochen Thun
In April of this year we were responsible for the "Digital Concert" film production of the Bachwochen Thun music festival. Released in September, this special concert format will make use of a newly developed video player called "SwipeKam", which allows audiences to...
New version of “The Rest Cure” released
Last year we went back into the editing bay together with film editor Austin Nordell, sound designer Jonathan Coomes and special effects artist Lucia Scianetti, to create an entirely new version of our 2016 literary low budget short film “The Rest Cure”. It has been...
The Location Manager – a race against time
Is it possible to create a shortfilm from scratch within one afternoon? The Location Manager served as a proof of concept for director and cinematographer Andreas Graf and actor Neville Jason Fahy who decided to make use of a free afternoon during the filming of the...
Marcel Barsotti and the future of digital music albums & soundtracks
Marcel Barsotti is one of the most successful German film composers. He has written the music for over a hundred cinema, television films and commercials (including Die Päpstin, Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen, Jesus liebt mich), and has published 40 music albums. He...
Creation of the music video “Der Steppenwolf”
In 2019 Helen Steinemann and Regula Dodds commissioned the composer Niklaus Vogel to compose a duo for two violins for their concert entitled “à la Mozart”. The resulting musical work "Steppenwolf" was premiered on October 19, 2019 in Ebikon and has already been...
Meet film composer Yagiz Oral, founding conductor of the Agora Symphony Orchestra
Yagiz Oral is a film music composer and founding conductor of the Agora Symphony Orchestra, based in Ankara, Turkey. Epic Lab had a chance to talk with him. Yagiz Oral, what made you follow the career of a film composer? Actually, I can say that my journey started...
The Sony A7 SIII – a love hate relationship for professional videographers
Jonathan Moy de Vitry is a filmmaker and the founder of RightHere/RightNow Productions, a team of Geneva-based artist-technicians infusing the best elements of classic cinema into modern media formats, from event videos and social media campaigns to livestreams and...
Meet Bernard Duc, Swiss film composer and conductor
Bernard Duc is a Swiss film composer and conductor living in London. He is also the organiser of Perspective, an event for film and media composers that is held annually in London. Bernard Duc, if you had to name 3 characteristics a successful film composer needs in...
Meet Jeffrey Gaiser at Audiomachine Los Angeles
Jeffrey Gaiser is an award-winning film composer at Audiomachine, a production music company based in Los Angeles. Many of Audiomachine's tracks have been featured in theatrical movie trailers, including those of Avatar, The Chronicles of Narnia, Iron Man, Venom and...
Quick Hack for Creating a Multiframe 3×2 Layout in Premiere Pro
My video project "Die Lockdown-Probe" is a satirical comedy about six musicians rehearsing online via Skype call. I wrote and filmed it during the coronavirus lockdown in spring 2020, and it officially premiered on New Year's Eve 2020 as part of the streaming program...
Meet Jonathan Coomes, sound mixer and sound designer in Hollywood
Jonathan Coomes is a sound designer and sound mixer in Los Angeles and an active member of Motion Picture Sound Editors and the Motion Picture Editors Guild. He has worked on numerous films, episodic series, and video games in a variety of roles. Epic Lab had the...
How music influences the perception of a scene
Exploring the effects of music and sound on the perception of motion picture has always fascinated me. This short clip is an example I put together just for fun, comparing two identical film excerpts with different music and sound effects applied. Depending on your...
Meet Esin Aydingoz, assistant music director for Disney’s DCappella & secretary for the Alliance for Women Film Composers
Esin Aydingoz is a Turkish film composer based in Los Angeles, who also happens to be the assistant music director for DCappella, Disney Music Group’s a cappella singing sensation featuring 7 world class vocalists. Known for their reimagined classics from the Disney...
Elephants Dream Rescored
Elephants Dream (code-named Project Orange during production and originally titled Machina) is a 2006 Dutch computer animated science fiction fantasy experimental short film produced by Blender Foundation using, almost exclusively, free and open-source software. The...
Epic Lab provides film music for Dance Festival Thun
As the Dance Festival Thun cannot happen this year due to the coronavirus crisis, a dance movie will be produced instead. Epic Lab is providing the film music for the movie that will be premiered in the cinema Rex in Thun beginning of May.
Color correction example with DaVinci Resolve
Take a quick look at a color correction example from our music video produced for Swiss cellist Albert Roman. Filming location was the church of Seewen (canton Solothurn), a popular recording and concert venue for classical musicians.
Interview with film composer Peter Hauser
Peter Hauser is one of the creative minds behind Epic Lab. His compositions have been praised for their ability to get stuck in people's head, for their catchy themes and poetic touch. Learn more about his creative process, his equipment and his philosophy in our...
New movies entering festival circuit
We are glad to announce that two new movies are entering the festival circuit . “Pink Bike” with American actor and comedian Chad Ridgely in the lead role, who is also known for his appearance in Quentin Tarantino’s new movie “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood”, and “When...