Frame by Frame

Today another editor on my course came into my room sounding rather excited about Microsoft’s latest announcement for user interfacing – the Windows 7 multi-touch:

Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7
This of course is a subject we’ve all discussed before – what if editing could have the user interface of Minority Report?

In the film, Tom Cruise reviews [...]

Playing around with Wordle, I entered in the text from my ‘about’ sections here and on my website as well as my CV…. and generated the above. It’s interesting to see without the surrounding context – some things are titles or synopses of projects, some things are background information which aren’t so relevant to what [...]

In what some would call an extraordinary feat of self-publicising (whilst others may point out that that’s sort of what a blog/ website is anyway), here’s my present showreel:
http://reel-exchange.com/members/cc8e25f7/profile/
I intend to do another one in a few months’ time once all of the grad projects are over, since they should technically be my showcase pieces… but I find it useful to at least know that I’ve got something up [...]

Production designer James makes some last minute adjustments
The second stage of editing on my NFTS graduation animation, in which the live action background rushes are assembled according to our original animatic, has been completed. The backgrounds from the first shoot were done a few weeks ago, and given to the animator as a low-res .mov [...]

This email was forwarded to everyone at my Film School, and I wanted to share it further afield.
It’s from the INDEPENDENT FILM & TELEVISON COLLEGE in Baghdad, and details some of their most recent news, tragedies, and their achievements in the face of it all.
Remarkable, really. Makes you think that little bit longer before complaining about [...]