'Quantum of Solace' Chooses DALSA 4K For Complex Visual Effects Shot

A press release announces that the forthcoming Quantum of Solace will feature a complex visual effects shot that will be captured with eight DALSA 4K Origin cameras.

While specific details related to the shot in the James Bond film are being kept underwraps, the company did reveal that it included actors Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko (Camille).

The full release follows:

James Bond “Quantum of Solace” Chooses DALSA 4K Origin Camera for Complex Visual Effects Shot

DALSA Digital Cinema (TSX:DSA) today announced that the next James Bond motion picture, Quantum of Solace, starring Daniel Craig as James Bond, will feature a complex visual effects shot captured with eight DALSA 4K Origin cameras.

As with most of James Bond’s missions, the details surrounding the cameras’ use must be kept top secret for the time being. However, the company revealed that the technically ambitious visual effects shot featured Mr. Craig and actress Olga Kurylenko, and involved simultaneously shooting with eight shutter-synchronized DALSA Origin 4K cameras. Quantum of Solace, the 22nd James Bond film and the second to star Daniel Craig, is scheduled for release on October 31st, 2008 in the UK, and November 7th in the US and internationally.

The decision to go with DALSA was made by Visual Effects Designer, Kevin Tod Haug. Kevin remarked, “The DALSA Origin was the only uncompressed, high-resolution, low-noise camera system we could count on to do what we needed to do. The folks at DALSA were completely supportive of all our complex needs. We could not have done this sequence without them.”

DALSA shipped all the camera packages from Los Angeles to Movietech Camera Rentals at Pinewood Studios. Working closely with Movietech, the cameras were all prepped for the complex shoot. The eight DALSA cameras recorded their data to eight CODEX digital disc recorders. Then, after the successful shoot, the CODEX disc packs were delivered to sohonet in London for backup, after which the RAW 4K files were delivered to Double Negative in Soho for rendering and final compositing.

David Stump, ASC, the consulting VFX cinematographer, collaborated with Director of Photography Roberto Schaefer, ASC on the shoot. Stump observed, “Working with uncompressed 4K gave us the ability to mine the maximum amount of detail from the scene. The low noise floor of the DALSA enabled us see every nuance of detail from the dark blacks of the clothing.”

“We were incredibly excited to be chosen for this complex part of the movie,” commented Rob Hummel, President of DALSA Digital Cinema. “It was amazing as we watched all eight cameras shooting and pouring data into the CODEX disc units. In total, we recorded over 3.8 gigabytes of image data every second. After a year of fine tuning the DALSA camera system, we felt we were ready to put the camera to the test. Of course, passing this particularly tough test, with eight cameras synchronized together, was the best outcome I could imagine!”

DALSA and 4K – a history that goes back almost 20 years

Although “4K” is a relatively new term in the field of cinematography and motion picture archiving, it actually dates back almost 20 years to the early days of machine vision. In the late 1980s, DALSA released the world’s first commercially available high performance line scan image sensor chip capable of capturing at 4K resolution (4096 pixels per horizontal line). The company’s chip technology evolved over the next decade into a viable and widely deployed solution for scanning 35mm film, which helped to usher in an era of affordable, high quality 2K and 4K film scanning and lead to the successful restoration of film classics and the digitization of new projects as the motion picture industry moved toward the digital intermediate process. In the late 1990s, the company developed the world’s first 4K eight million pixel image sensor chip for Japan’s NHK. That development proved to be a springboard for the eventual development of the current DALSA motion picture image sensor and the award-winning DALSA Origin 4K camera, which was launched at NAB in 2003. In 2005, Director and visual effects guru, Alan Chan, used the Origin to shoot the world’s first, fully digital, 4K project, Postcards from the Future, premiering in May, 2007. Also in 2007, DALSA completed its first 4K feature length motion picture, “Reach for Me”, directed by LeVar Burton. After nearly 20 years, DALSA’s 4K legacy continues, as the company delivers on its commitment to bringing the motion picture industry the very best image capture tools, without compromising on image quality.

About DALSA Corporation

DALSA is an international leader in high performance digital imaging and semiconductors with approximately 1000 employees world-wide. Established in 1980, the company designs, develops, manufactures, and markets digital imaging products and solutions, in addition to providing semiconductor products and services. DALSA’s core competencies are in specialized integrated circuit and electronics technology, software, and highly engineered semiconductor wafer processing. Products and services include image sensor components (CCD and CMOS); electronic digital cameras; vision processors; image processing software; and semiconductor wafer foundry services for use in MEMS, high-voltage semiconductors, image sensors and mixed-signal CMOS chips. DALSA is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “DSA” and has its corporate offices in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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'Quantum of Solace' Shooting At Chilean Paranal Observatory

A new press release announces that the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, has moved into the Paranal Observatory located in the Atacama Desert in Chile.

The location hosts ESO’s (the intergovernmental European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere) Very Large Telescope and will serve as a hideout for villain Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric). The full release:

A Giant Of Astronomy and A Quantum Of Solace

Cerro Paranal, the 2600m high mountain in the Chilean Atacama Desert that hosts ESO’s Very Large Telescope, will be the stage for scenes in the next James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace.

Looking akin to Mars, with its red sand and lack of vegetation, the Atacama Desert is thought to be the driest place on Earth. Cerro Paranal is home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which, with its array of four giant 8.2-m individual telescopes, is the world’s most advanced optical observatory. The high-altitude site and extreme dryness make excellent conditions for astronomical observations.

“We needed a unique site for a unique set of telescopes, and we found it at Paranal,” said Andreas Kaufer, ESO’s Paranal Director. “We are very excited that the Bond production team have also chosen this location.”

The excellent astronomical conditions at Paranal come at a price, however. In this forbidding desert environment, virtually nothing can grow outside. The humidity drops below 10%, there are intense ultraviolet rays from the sun, and the high altitude leaves people short of breath. Living in this extremely isolated place feels like visiting another planet.

To make it possible for people to live and work here, a hotel or “Residencia” was built in the base camp, allowing them to escape from the arid outside environment. Here, returning from long shifts at the VLT and other installations on the mountain, they can breathe moist air and relax, sheltered from the harsh conditions outside. The Residencia’s award-winning design, including an enclosed tropical garden and pool under a futuristic domed roof, gives its interior a feeling of open space within the protective walls – this is a true “haven in the desert”.

It is this unique building that serves as the backdrop for the James Bond filming.

Quantum of Solace producer, Michael G. Wilson said: “The Residencia of Paranal Observatory caught the attention of our director, Marc Forster and production designer, Dennis Gassner, both for its exceptional design and its remote location in the Atacama desert. It is a true oasis and the perfect hide-out for Dominic Greene, our villain, whom 007 is tracking in our new James Bond film.”

In addition to the shooting at the Residencia, further action will take place at the Paranal airstrip.

The film crew present on Paranal includes Englishman Daniel Craig, taking again the role of James Bond, French actor Mathieu Amalric, leading lady Olga Kurylenko, from the Ukraine, as well as acclaimed Mexican actors, Joaquin Cosio and Jesus Ochoa. This cast from across Europe and Latin America mirrors the international staff that works for ESO at Paranal.

After leaving Paranal at the end of the week, the film crew will shoot in other locations close to Antofagasta. Other sequences have been filmed in Panama and, following the Chilean locations, the unit will be travelling to Italy and Austria before returning to Pinewood Studios near London in May.

Quantum of Solace will be released in the UK on 31 October 2008, and in the US and internationally on 7 November 2008.

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The Literary James Bond In The 1970s

Written by ‘SILHOUETTE MAN’

The literary Bond’s life and adventures are chronicled from the early 1950s onwards, and we know something of his life in the period before this. We know of his missions on into about the mid 1960s, with Kingsley Amis’ Colonel Sun (1968). After this mission however the life of Bond becomes sketchier. In fact the only decade of the literary Bond’s life that we do not seem to know very much about is the 1970s. This decade had no real continuation novel connected to Ian Fleming’s Bond novels as such, but it did have John Pearson’s James Bond: The Authorized Biography of James Bond (1973). It details Bond’s life from his birth to the events just after Colonel Sun, which means that it is still set in the 1960s.

The other real literary continuation of James Bond in the 1970s were the two screenplays from the two last Bond films of the 1970s, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, published by the screenwriter and novelist Christopher Wood under the titles Jame Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me and James Bond And Moonraker, published in 1977 and 1979 respectively. As these are novelisations of the films to tie in with the Fleming Bond universe, they are not really seen by fans as being part of the literary Bond continuation. They do however tie in well with Fleming’s style of writing, making the books of the film at least owing more to Fleming than the films on which they are based.

When Glidrose continued the literary Bond series proper with Licence Renewed (1981) by John Gardner, there are some very interesting details of Bond’s life in the period in between. We learn that “there was not much to console Bond these days. There had even been times, recently, when he had seriously considered resigning – to use the jargon, ‘go private’.”

There is recalled the famous exchange between M. and Bond on the disbanding of the OO Section,

“‘Changing world; changing times, James,’ M had said to him a couple of years ago, when breaking the news that the elite Double-O status- which meant being licensed to kill in the line of duty- was being abolished.

“This was during the so-called Realignment Purge, often referred to in the Service as the SNAFU Slaughter, similar to the C.I.A’s famous Hallowe’en massacre, in which large numbers of faithful members of the American service had been dismissed, literally overnight. Similar things had happened in Britain, with financial horns being pulled in, and what a pompous Whitehall detective called ‘a more realistic logic being enforced upon the Secret and Security Services’.”

Gardner assures us that Bond’s role will still remain much the same. As M says to Bond, we are told a two years before Licence Renewed begins, so it can be assumed this was in 1979,

‘As far as I’m concerned, 007, you will remain 007. I shall take full responsibility for you; and you will, as ever, accept orders and assignments only from me. There are moments when this country needs a trouble-shooter – a blunt instrument – and by God it’s going to have one. They can issue their pieces of bumf and abolish the Double-O Section. We can simply change its name. It will now be the Special Section and you are it.”

Later we learn,

“Bond had left M’s office on that occasion in an elated mood. Yet, in the few years that had passed since, he had performed only four missions in which his Double-O prefix had played any part. […] It was the active life that Bond missed; the continual challenge of a new problem, a difficult decision in the field, the sense of purpose and of serving his country. Sometimes he wondered if he was falling under the spell of that malaise which seemed, on occasions, to grip Britain by the throat – political and economic lethargy, combined with a short-term view of the world’s problems.

Bond’s four most recent missions had been quick, cut and dried, undercover operations; and while it would be wrong to say that James Bond yearned for danger, his life now seemed, at times, to lack real purpose.”

We learn of the changes in Bond’s lifestyle since the 1960s,

“Bond had even managed to alter his lifestyle, very slightly, adapting to the changing pressures of the 1970s and early 1980s: drastically cutting back – for most of the time – on his alcohol intake, and arranging with Morelands of Grosvenor Street for a new special blend of cigarettes, with a tar content slightly lower than any currently available on the market.”

“With fuel costs running high, and the inevitability that they would continue to do so, Bond had allowed the beloved old Mark II Continental Bentley to go the way of its predecessor, the 4.5-litre Bentley.”

The most interesting titbit of information comes when the details of Dr. Anton Murik and Franco are being told to Bond in M’s office. Bond says,

‘Not a healthy mix – an international terrorist and a renowned nuclear physicist. Been one of the nightmares for some time, hasn’t it, sir? That some group would get hold of not only the materials but the means to construct a really lethal nuclear device? We suspect some of them have the materials – look at that fellow Achmed Yastaff I took out for you. At least four of the ships he arranged to go missing were carrying materials…’
M snorted, ‘Don’t be a fool, 007. Easiest thing in the world to construct a crude device.’

It would perhaps be an interesting idea to look at the literary Bond in the 1970s because there has been so little written about Fleming’s creation in this period. It would give new scope and new ground for the literary Bond to work within. Perhaps the mentions of the four missions where Bond used his licence to kill could be expanded on in a novel or short story collection by a new continuation author at some stage, including the story of Achmed Yastaff. It might be some sort of an answer to the problem some see in continuing the literary Bond character indefinitely into the future, as the dates given in Fleming’s work give his revised date of birth as 1924. It would also be an adult antidote to the ‘Young Bond’ series. Of course in the novels Bond hasn’t really aged very much, but the 1970s could be an interesting retro angle rather than writing adventures in between the 1950s novels as some have suggested.

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'Casino Royale' Collector's Edition DVD Details – Special Features

As reported by CommanderBond.net over the weekend, a three-disc collector’s edition of Daniel Craig’s debut James Bond film, Casino Royale, was given a French release date of 18 June 2008.

The report also noted that the special features (which will make up the second and third discs of the set) would reportedly include an audio commentary with director Martin Campbell and the producers, a cut scenes montage, and much more.

Now, the DVD Times website has posted it’s own update with a reported Region 1 (USA, Canada) release date of 3 June 2008. The special features list follows:

• The Road to Casino Royale
• Crew Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Paying Taxes
• Rescue & Recovery
• Old Boyfriend?
• James Bond in the Bahamas
• The Art of the Freerun
• Death in Venice
• Catching a Plane: From Storyboard to Screen
• Filmmaker Profiles
• Storyboard Sequence: Freerun Chase
• Ian Fleming: The Secret Road to Paradise
• Becoming Bond documentary
• James Bond: For Real Documentary
• Bond Girls are Forever (2006)
• Chris Cornell ‘You Know My Name’ Music Video

007 fans will recall that the rather barebones initial DVD release in March 2007 only contained the final four extras listed above.

Further details and pre-ordering information are yet to be announced, but we’ll keep you informed with all the latest news regarding this upcoming Casino Royale collector’s edition DVD.

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Three-Disc 'Casino Royale' DVD Coming In June 2008

Back in August 2007 of last year, CommanderBond.net exclusively reported that a three-disc DVD edition of 2006’s Casino Royale was on the way.

As stated at the time, this forthcoming edition would be a follow-up to the rather barebones initial release in March 2007. The film would take up the space of one disc, while the followng two would be allocated for special features.

Now, according to 007 website JamesBond-fr.com, a release date has been set for the DVD in France: 18 June 2008.

Special features will reportedly include an audio commentary with director Martin Campbell and the producers, a cut scenes montage, and much more. Full details regarding worldwide release dates and further special features will follow soon.

Back in March 2007, Campbell discussed the Casino Royale DVD with USA Today and revealed that a commentary would be in store for the next release: ‘Yes, we are doing a commentary. I think [the studio] tends to milk these things [with Bond films]. When I did GoldenEye, I did it with the producer [Michael G. Wilson]. We’ll probably do it with [the producers].’ He also added that 007 fans may see some of the deleted scenes included as well.

In another interview with Hollywood In Hi-Def in August of last year, Campbell was asked if he had begun work on any of the special features to accompany the new Casino Royale release: ‘All I’ve done is watch the movie. I’m fascinated by the quality of it. But that’s about as far as I’ve gone. I’m sort of busy at the moment looking at other projects.’

‘Certainly I have to OK the scenes that have been cut out,’ he continued. ‘That’s good. I think people are fascinated by scenes that are cut out and I put most of them back into the disc. I hope there’s going to be an extended documentary because they (documentary film crews) are with us all the time, doing interviews all the way through. The documentary on the existing movie (DVD/Blu-ray discs) is just a little short. I just wanted more…’

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'James Bond: The History Of The Illustrated 007' Coming In September 2008

Mark your calendars. 2008 is shaping up to be yet another year filled with various literary 007 releases, and today we report on another new one.

Due for release in September 2008 is Alan J. Porter’s James Bond: The History Of The Illustrated 007.

As the title suggests, this 240-page paperback will be focusing on Bond in the world of comics, as most recently reprinted by Titan Books throughout the past four years. The book will be published by Hermes Press.

According to the author’s personal blog:

The fully illustrated book will chronicle the story behind Bond’s comics adventures around the world, from British newspaper strips, to original stories produced for markets such as Sweden and Chile, to Japanese manga, and of course the various American series and movie adaptations.

I’ll also be taking a look at the various Bond spoofs, 007’s influence on comics art in general, and hopefully lining up interviews with some of the creators who have added to Bond’s story over the years.

Alan J. Porter

Since that posting, writers Mike Grell and Doug Moench, who worked on the original US Bond adventures Permission To Die and Serpent’s Tooth in the early 1990’s (Moench also worked on 1994’s Minute of Midnight), have been mentioned as part of Porter’s research for the book.

In addition, fans can view an early design concept cover for James Bond: The History Of The Illustrated 007 on Porter’s blog.

Most recently, Porter has contributed his articles on the US comic book adventures of Bond in Titan’s Death Wing and Shark Bait collections. He’ll also be contributing to Titan’s forthcoming Bond collection, The Paradise Plot (due out on 27 June).

For more on Porter’s researching for James Bond: The History Of The Illustrated 007, visit his personal blog.

Now for the first time, the complete history of the illustrated James Bond is chronicled by pop culture historian Alan J. Porter in James Bond: The History Of The Illustrated 007. Porter’s new book examines James Bond’s adventures in newspaper strips and comic books. Before Bond became world famous with his movie series, the character was the subject of successful English newspaper strips and later in comic books. With the explosion of Bond on the screen the character and his exploits become even more popular in comic strip and comic book versions all over the world. James Bond: The History Of The Illustrated 007 examines it all, and covers Bond’s newspaper strip and comic book appearances from the 1950s to the present. The release of this all-new history is timed to coincide with James Bond’s newest movie appearance and is sure to be a must for all Bond fans. The cover of the book presents a never-before-seen painting by noted artist Bob Peak who made a significant contribution tot he Bond canon’s movie poster art.

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Daniel Craig Says 'Quantum' Will Impress

Daniel Craig is promising that his second turn as James Bond in Quantum of Solace impress 007 fans according to Digital Spy.

The Bond actor has a particularly interesting way of measuring up how he think’s the film will turn out: ‘I can only gauge it by how much pain I’m in, and I think we’re doing pretty good,’ he said. ‘They’ve [the stunts] started to hurt.’

And despite the occasional blank stares that result when fans are told the title of the 22nd 007 adventure, Craig has a different point of view:

‘I’m very happy with it. It encapsulates what the movie is at heart and a lot more which I can’t give away.’

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'Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History Of The James Bond Films' Released In US

Despite a few delays in the release date, 007 fans in the US can now order the revised edition of James Chapman’s Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films.

Officially released on 18 March 2008, Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films can currently be ordered at amazon.com.

First published in 1999 in the UK, Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films aims to show that there is more to the 007 franchise than just girls, guns and globe trotting adventures. The original blurb:

“The James Bond” epic is the most popular film series in silver screen history: it is estimated that a quarter of the world’s population has seen a Bond feature. The saga of Britain’s best-loved martini hound (who we all know prefers his favorite drink “shaken, not stirred”) has adapted to changing times for four decades without ever abandoning its tried-and-true formula of diabolical international conspiracy, sexual intrigue, and incredible gadgetry. James Chapman expertly traces the annals of celluloid Bond from its inauguration with 1962’s Dr. No through its progression beyond Ian Fleming’s spy novels to the action-adventure spectaculars of GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies. He argues that the enormous popularity of the series represents more than just the sum total of the films’ box-office receipts and involves questions of film culture in a wider sense.

Licence to Thrill chronicles how Bond, a representative of a British Empire that no longer existed in his generation, became a symbol of his nation’s might in a Cold War world where Britain was no longer a primary actor. Chapman describes the protean nature of Bond villains in a volatile global political scene – from Soviet scoundrels and Chinese rogues in the 1960s to a brief flirtation with Latin American drug kingpins in the 1980s and back to the Chinese in the 1990s. The book explores how the movies struggle with changing societal ethics – notably, in the evolution in the portrayal of women, showing how Bond’s encounters with the opposite sex have evolved into trysts with leading ladies as sexually liberated as Bond himself. The Bond formula has proved remarkably durable and consistently successful for roughly a third of cinema’s history – half the period since the introduction of talking pictures in the late 1920s. Moreover, Licence to Thrill argues that, for the foreseeable future, the James Bond films are likely to go on being what they have always been, a unique and very special kind of popular cinema.

The revised paperback edition of Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films is published by I B Tauris & Co Ltd and retails for £12.99 / $19.95.

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State-Of-The-Art Sound Equipment For 'Quantum of Solace'

The 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, will feature state-of-the-art sound equipment according to 4rfv.

Production sound mixer Chris Munro will be using a PD606 recorder from leading company Fostex.

Munro said: ‘The Bond movies often use innovative techniques and new equipment. It’s fitting that the Fostex recorders have been used on all my Bond movies so far and each new film has seen the release of a new product. On Tomorrow Never Dies, the DV40 was used, The World Is Not Enough, the PD6, Casino Royale used the DV824/PD6 and now Quantum of Solace will be the first to use the PD606 along with the DV824.’

The PD606 takes full size DVD discs for greater recording time and has been redesigned for simpler operation when used on this latest 007 film. According to Fostex, demand was so high that almost all the units of the first allocation were pre-sold.

Munro continued: ‘Despite what the name suggests, the PD606 is effectively an 8 track machine. Whilst it has 6 inputs, there are also 2 mix tracks available.’

‘As the PD6 was design-based on the DV40 the PD606 is design-based on the DV824, an 8 track machine.’

‘What’s more, varying numbers of tracks can be recorded throughout a single disc and track configuration can be changed at will. If only 2 or 4 tracks are required it doesn’t fill the others with blank space, which is a real space and time bonus for editors,’ he said.

Munro will also be traveling along with the Quantum of Solace production around the world: ‘Starting in the next few weeks, I will be travelling to Panama, Peru, Chile, Austria and also Italy. I am confident in the PD606 and know the Fostex design quality won’t let me down. It’s so important to have a machine I can rely on when recording on location away from home.’

Along with Eddy Joseph, Mike Prestwood Smith, Martin Cantwell, and Mark Taylor, Munro won the BAFTA award for Best Sound in Casino Royale at the February 2007 awards event.

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'I think Bond still carries Vesper in his heart.'

Olga Kurylenko has briefly spoken about her her character, Camille, ties in with James Bond and Casino Royale‘s leading lady, Vesper Lynd.

An ITN video report regarding yesterday’s announcement of the Quantum of Solace release date switch included a short interview with Kurylenko.

The actress said: ‘I think Bond still carries Vesper in his heart. Camille… might be there to distract him… but maybe not.’

Kurylenko earlier said of her character’s relationship with Daniel Craig’s 007: ‘In the beginning they come as opponents, but at a certain point they have to collaborate. They go through a lot of things together.’ According to the 7 January press release, Camille ‘challenges Bond and helps him come to terms with the emotional consequences of Vesper’s betrayal.’

Click here to watch the video online.

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