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As a student, I got free access to the press and industry screenings at this year’s London Film Festival. I could also attend daytime (before 5pm) screenings so long as they hadn’t sold out. It’s a pretty good deal, and one that I’ll be sorry to see go once I leave the NFTS.
I managed to [...]
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(in, out, in, out, shake it all about - for those unfamiliar with the childrens song)
The past month or so has been devoted to the Fiction graduation film. It’s been a bit of a journey, and our final structure is borne of the knowledge that we’ve tried just about all reasonable alternatives in-keeping with the [...]
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… as copied from a printout on the wall at the place where I digitise. Origin unknown. Argue on the precise ordering/ repetition amongst yourselves.
Optimism - “This could be really good.”
Confidence - “This is great!”
Doubt - “This is what they want, right?”
Resolve - “Fuck ‘em! We can do this!”
Despair - “Fuck, we can’t do this!”
Siege [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]