As chronicled in Part 1, the Java Post Aerial Photography crew has been spending the past several months using virtual reality (VR) to document the on-going construction of several new public schools being built in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. When last we left you, our shooting had taken us into winter and we were experiencing a challenge keeping the batteries warm in our cluster of six GoPro VR…

Since last summer, the Java Post Aerial Photography crew has been recording virtual reality (VR) footage at a series of construction sites in and around Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. This VR project documents the on-going construction of some new schools being built in several new areas of the city. UAV tech and camera operator, Trevor Bennett, unloads the gear from the Java Post Aerial…

In preparation for a series of feature film projects Java Post Production will be undertaking with Minds Eye Entertainment, we've been making some modifications to the monitoring system in one of our colour correction suites, in order to work in the three-screen Barco Escape format. Pictured below is an example of how the three-screen Barco Escape format appears in a suitably-equipped theatre.…

Java Post Production helped the Saskatchewan Roughriders football club to create 3D representational images of the soon-to-be-completed exterior plaza, which will be located on the northeast corner of new Mosaic Stadium, slated for opening in 2017. This was done to promote the Fan Wall, part of the Build the Pride Capital Campaign, led by the Saskatchewan Roughriders as a way to give back to…

The animators at Java Post Production have been doing some work on the Landslide Entertainment animated children's show Louis Says. Broadcast on APTN, Louis Says is the story of Louis, an Aboriginal elder, whose mission in life is to help the people in his community in any way he can. Louis is getting older and it’s getting harder for him to help people on his own. So he decides to…

This past fall, Java Post Aerial Photography was out doing some aerial mapping for a large industrial complex. Using one of our UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as a "drone"), Java Post can create very accurate high resolution 3D aerial maps of large areas and industrial complexes. And it takes a lot of images. Over the course of four to five shooting days on this project,…

In Flanders Fields - by John McCrae, May 3rd, 1915 In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.   Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from…

Java Post Production will be providing colour correction, mastering, and final deliverables to the upcoming sci-fi feature film thriller The Recall, starring Wesley Snipes and R.J. Mitte (Breaking Bad), and produced by Minds Eye Entertainment. The Recall was shot for the new Barco Escape, three-screen, panoramic theatrical format, which fully surrounds audiences and offers the ultimate immersive…

Java Post Production is providing colour correction, mastering, and final deliverables for the Minds Eye Entertainment sci-fi thriller The Recall, starring Wesley Snipes, which just announced a strong debut at the American Film Market (AFM). Along with Wesley Snipes, the film stars R.J. Mitte (Breaking Bad) and follows a group of five friends vacationing at a cabin while aliens attack Earth. Mauro…

The Government of Canada and the Nature Conservancy of Canada recently partnered to protect grasslands habitat in Southern Saskatchewan, and the Java Post Aerial Photography team captured aerial and ground-based footage of the protected area. The footage will be projected on the walls of an art gallery during an upcoming "escape to nature" event, giving the attendees the feeling that…