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Engadget
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Engadget
'28 Years Later' used 20 iPhones in tandem for some wild shots
It's no secret that 28 Years Later used iPhones to shoot parts of the film. Now its director, Danny Boyle, has discussed the use of iPhones for the film in more detail with IGN . The first film in the franchise, 28 Days Later , was shot on digital video, giving it a homemade feel. Boyle explained that he and writer Alex Garland got the idea from the fact that home video cameras were common at the time, and people would've shot videos with them if an apocalypse had indeed happened. Those cameras, of course, have since been replaced by smartphones. The movies used three special rigs for the iPhone sequences: One for eight cameras that one person can carry, another with 10 and another with 20. "I never say this, but there is an incredible shot in the second half [of the film] where we use the 20-rig camera, and you'll know it when you see it," Boyle told IGN . He described the 20-iPhone rig as "basically a poor man's bullet time," which is a visual effect that uses multiple cameras to freeze or slow down time. Think the scene in The Matrix , wherein Neo dodged bullets in super slow motion. Doyle said that the 20-camera rig can be attached to cranes or dollies and give you 180 degrees of vision of an action. In editing, you can choose from any of the footage each iPhone takes to, say, move between perspectives or jump forward and backward. For 28 Years Later, the team used the rig for violent scenes to emphasize their effect. "For a moment the audience is inside the scene, the action, rather than classically observing a picture," Doyle explained. In addition to the iPhones, the filmmakers also used drones, cameras attached to actors and even farm animals to achieve an immersive feel for its 2.76:1 widescreen aspect ratio. They decided on the aspect ratio to create a sense of unease, since you'd have to keep scanning the screen to see potential threats coming from the sides.
Belfast Telegraph
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
New stage to debut at 2025 AVA Festival on Titanic Slipways
The two-day event kicks off on Friday with a new stage, The Dock. Watch: AVA Festival returns to Belfast Event organiser Sarah McBriar said: 'It's looking amazing, we've got so many new additions to the festival this year and sunshine is forecast for Friday.' The Dock features layered platforms for dancers, a Funktion-One sound system supplied by Hertz-U Audioand a custom audiovisual rigfrom Visual Spectrum Studio. She added: 'It's a mixture of dancing and live shows, it's that kind of an amphitheatre-style stage as well, and we have built lots of shipping containers and scaffolding stuff around it. 'So, it's still got the industrial feel of AVA, but the intimacy of an epic stage.' The Dock is an 'homage' to Belfast. She explained: 'I think that's what we've always done, both with who we programme and who we book, but also, like, the scenery and the location. 'It's an amazing site here on the slipways, and the fact that we've got the Titanic (museum) and the cranes as a backdrop. We've got the city, the water, the boats come in, the sunsets over the city... it's a gorgeous location.' This year's festival promises 'something for everyone'. Ms McBriar added: 'If you're into bands, we've got Chalk, we've got obviously Underworld playing live, and Overmono, all the way through to lots of local acts like DJ Time of the Month, Reger, Mark Blair... and also, if you're into techno, we've got 9x9. 'So yeah, it's pretty much like a massive bill. But I think also just the atmosphere and the people and the crowd and the energy... you know, even if you're not massively into the music, it's also just the atmosphere and the whole experience.' The AVA team is working hard to ensure festival-goers enjoy a quality experience. She said: 'We've got 'chill out' spaces, a really cool hospitality space with Wing It, lots of amazing local food traders, a new Be Perfect bus, where people can go and get a facial, and then obviously all the amazing stages as well. 'You can chill, you can dance, you can rave, you can get lots of amazing drinks from our bars.' AVA will run from Friday to Saturday with tickets still available online. 'Our weekend tickets are actually really close to selling out. So if you haven't already got your ticket, get onto it ASAP,' she said. 'And then we've got a handful of day tickets remaining.'
Korea Herald
26-05-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
XCMG Opens 7th XCMG International Customer Festival, Strengthening Collaboration with Global Partners
XUZHOU, China, May 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- XCMG Machinery ("XCMG", SHE: 000425) has successfully hosted the 7 th XCMG International Customer Festival (the "Festival") from May 20 to 23 in Xuzhou, China. More than 2,000 customers from over 80 countries and regions as well as 60 journalists from both home and abroad gathered in Xuzhou, China, to celebrate and witness the largest edition of the Festival to date. Yang Dongsheng, chairman of XCMG Group and XCMG Machinery, expressed his gratitude and respect to the partners from all over the world. "As the old saying goes, 'Nothing, not even mountains and seas, can separate people with common goals and ideals.' Every breakthrough and leap forward in XCMG's globalization journey is full of the trust and entrustment of our global customers; it's the cohesion of everyone's wisdom and contribution and a chapter of the times we grow together." XCMG lined up 16 top-selling cranes, which heralded the beginning of a new journey with global partners. 2,500 drones drew the "SOLID TO SUCCEED" manifesto with the night sky as canvas, mapping the blueprint for building a greener future for all during its opening ceremony. XCMG also showcased groundbreaking products and green technologies, including the pure electric unmanned excavator XE215E and electric loader XC968-EV, both utilize XCMG's self-developed algorithms and AI models and are equipped with multi-line LIDAR, cameras and deep learning computing units that are extensively configured in the intelligent equipment to achieve truck positioning, path planning and accurate loading. At the opening ceremony, Yang Dongsheng presented six golden keys to deliver a batch of high-end hoisting machinery, intelligent and digital mining and road equipment. The interactive experience zone with 12 programs of the Festival was set up close to the actual working conditions of customer experience projects, including excavating machinery, road machinery, shoveling machinery, truck-mounted cranes, fire trucks and the city's operating platforms. Rooted in more than 190 countries and regions, XCMG, as a leading construction machinery brand, has made remarkable achievements in product technology, intelligent manufacturing, brand building, international market development and more. Against the backdrop of profound changes in the current global economic landscape and accelerated restructuring of the industrial chain and supply chain, XCMG is actively responding to the challenges and grasping opportunities, showing strong resilience and vitality in development. Li Qi, vice president of China Machinery Industry Federation, noted in his speech that XCMG has set a benchmark for the transformation and upgrading of the construction machinery industry. "We hope that XCMG will continue to play a leading role in the industry, strengthen in-depth cooperation with global partners, and make greater contributions to the development of the global construction machinery industry," said Li Qi. From the Simandou iron mine in Guinea to the Future City in Saudi Arabia, from the wind farms in Europe to mines in Indonesia, XCMG is committed to responding accurately to the market demand, and each solution originates from the in-depth insight into the local regulations, standards and operating habits, constantly breaking through the boundaries of the construction machinery to build a future of shared success.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
'Immense sense of pride': Behind the cranes that help build Phoenix
The Brief FOX 10's Lauren Clark chats with Christopher Oehl, president and CEO of ORBIT Industrial Services and Maintenence, about the use of cranes, the different ones, and all the training that goes into operating one. Cranes are the backbone of building a city, and the operators take pride in their work when they see the skyline full of developments that couldn't be created without them. PHOENIX - Cranes and crane operators do most of the heavy lifting for construction across the Valley. FOX 10's Lauren Clark shows us what's needed to work among the clouds and Phoenix skyline, and why what you think you know about cranes is probably wrong. What they're saying You can't miss it across the Phoenix skyline – a sea of cranes towering from above. What does it take to work behind one? Christopher Oehl would know. He's had a lot of time and experience with cranes. It's even in his DNA. "My grandmother in Germany was a crane operator. She was certified in overhead cranes, mobile cranes, tower cranes, she was also a certified rigger," he said. Now, he's taking the legacy to new heights. He's the president and CEO of ORBIT Industrial Services and Maintenence, a company that provides training and safety inspections for many cranes across the Valley and world. If you think you know everything about cranes, think again. "The average person assumes that cranes are only tower cranes, they're downtown. The world is full of compact equipment. You have these compact spider cranes, you have jib cranes," he explained. But, no matter the form, it's a job where skill does the heavy lifting. "The industry calls for 2,000 provable hours before an individual can become certified," Oehl said. "Gobs and gobs of training." It's where precision is hoisted to the forefront. "It's very important. The crane is moving every material, every tool, every other aerial equipment that the construction workers need is being put in place for them," Oehl said. "These guys are sitting in hot cabs. Some have air conditioning, some don't. They are sitting in the sun, they are confined." What does that mean about bathroom breaks? "On a tower crane back in the day, it used to be a bucket and your helper would help you, and lower it down. Nowadays, they have facilities on board," Oehl said. While many look at the skyline view and only see giant cranes, Oehl and his operations manager, Jordan Bedard, see a higher calling. "That is an immense sense of pride. When you see something that wasn't there before, but you are able to install it and know for the next 50 years that is going to be there–and your group got to do that," Bedard said.
Business Recorder
18-05-2025
- Business
- Business Recorder
Afghan goods: FBR slaps 10pc processing fee
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has imposed 10 percent processing fee on wide range of Afghan transit commercial goods, including agricultural equipment, ships' derricks; cranes, steam vapour generating boilers, industrial/laboratory furnaces and ovens, automatic data processing machines and dozens of other goods imported into Afghanistan in transit via Pakistan. The FBR has expanded the list of items subjected to 10 percent processing fee on Afghan transit commercial items. The FBR has issued an SRO.816(I)/2025 on Saturday to amend SRO.1380(I)/2023 for imposition of the said processing fee on five major categories of Afghan transit commercial goods. FBR rolls out new protocols for Afghan cargos Earlier, 10 percent fee was applicable on five major categories of Afghan transit commercial goods covering confectionaries/chocolates, footwear, machinery (mechanical/electrical), blankets/home textiles and garments imported into Afghanistan in transit via Pakistan. The FBR had received proposals of the Ministry of Commerce that as Customs duty in Afghanistan is extremely low as compared to Pakistan, and this facility is being misused with the connivance of businessmen from both sides. It suggested that the FBR should to take the following measures to curb the misuse of Afghan Transit Trade: (i) the requirement of Revolving Insurance Guarantee for all Afghan Transit goods has to be substituted by the FBR with bank guarantee at 100% of the assessed value; and (ii) processing fee at 10% ad valorem shall be imposed on the Afghan Transit goods showing unjustified increase in forward transit cargo Afghanistan's Customs duties on these goods are negligible. According to the notification issued on Saturday, the federal government has imposed processing fee at the rate of 10% ad valorem on the following Afghan transit Commercial goods imported into Afghanistan in transit via Pakistan: Pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists; winches and capstans; jacks; ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane; Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment; other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics); 0ther moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile- drivers and pile- extractors; snow-ploughs and snow-blowers; agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation; lawn or sports- ground rollers; harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce, other than machinery of heading 84.37; milking machines and dairy machinery; other agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry- keeping or bee-keeping machinery, including germination plant fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment; poultry incubators and brooders; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables; machinery used in the milling industry or for the working of cereals or dried leguminous vegetables, other than farm- type machinery; machines for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man-made textile materials; automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included; transmission apparatus for radio- broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders; electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, fuses, lightning arresters, voltage limiters, surge suppressors, plugs and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage exceeding 1,000 volts; electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere and electrical and electronic waste and scrap. Copyright Business Recorder, 2025
