Though the movie ends, the memory of touching scenes are held for long. Yet, hardly does any of us ever bother to reckon the effort that went into making those scenes.

Effort in Movie Making

Usually, we enjoy movies that project nature at its vivid best. Did you know that shooting movies in such exotic location is possible only after surmounting every conceivable difficulty? The entire crew has to reach the specified spot, taking with them the cameras, wardrobe, technical equipment, food, bedding and all sorts of supplies. If wild animals figure in the story, an entire zoo load has to be transported. Such settings are reached only by traversing over difficult terrain. In the absence of a motorable road, the wild animals get carried.

Usually, once a proper road ends, the entire crew traverses on horse-back for days together. Reaching the required vicinity takes days and the entire unit has to fight mosquitoes, snowfall, rain and every other imaginable natural calamity that might also include poisonous ivy and snakes. At times, the landscape is so difficult that when horses fail to climb, the entire unit climbs themselves along with their supplies. All the people working in the film should be prepared to face physical challenges. To compensate them for forgoing the comforts of civilisation for weeks on end, they have to be handsomely paid.

After spending millions of dollars and struggling for weeks on end, a movie gets made finally. However, the job is only half done. Much more effort is required for sending the cinema to the theatres. The filmed movie should be given a proper shape and form by the editor.

Editorial Role

The editor first watches the entire film for hours on end. He begins his work taking the audio and the video of the film and arranging it according to a well-thought out, pre-prepared framework. The logical arrangement of the screenplay should be in a smooth transition and the viewer should not be jarred by the sudden difference between scenes. The whole job of editing takes a few months before the film gets ready to be released.

After the editor completes his job, the producer and the director give their approval. The editor generally works on ‘work prints’ and negatives are made for the approved version. These negatives are sent to the film lab for creation of prints which ultimately get played out in theatres.

Nowadays, the entire movie production business has turned digital. Raw footage is stored in digital form and then edited using computers or non-linear digital editing system. This is an efficient process which enables editing of the movie and resaving it with the same file name. The powerful software tools enable the editor to delete a frame, crop it, resize it, rotate or flip it and trim it. The audio video volume can be adjusted and the film emerges a true work of art.

If the entire motion picture that is stored on the computer were to be lost, what an enormous disaster would it be? Not only would months of effort be wasted, it would also be impossible to re-shoot the entire film once again. The only solution to such a situation is approaching the data recovery experts.

Data Recovery Experts

The hard disk that contains the lost data should be shipped to the data recovery service personnel. No attempt should ever be made to open the hard disk. Modern day hard disks are extremely sensitive to dust, and would get damaged even by gaseous contaminants.

Data recovery professionals are experts in their field and can handle any type of eventuality. They carefully analyse the problem and, if required, they work on the hard drive in class 100 clean rooms. Further, if the situation warrants, a team of individually assigned engineers develop customised services to enable data recovery even for the most difficult cases. The precise tools used by deft experienced hands enable complete recovery of the lost data.

Volatile technology helps us realise the value of services provided by the data recovery experts. All people, business entrepreneurs to movie producers, would lose millions of pounds, in the absence of such expertise.

James Walsh is a freelance writer and copy editor. If you are concerned about data loss and would like more information on Data Recovery see www.fields-data-recovery.co.uk