Frame by Frame

Last night I went to a reading of “Wall” by David Hare. I’ve enjoyed several of his plays, and there was a £5 offer on, so I went along.
“Wall” is about Hare’s own experiences with the Middle Eastern conflict between Israel and Palestine, and is being presented as a companion piece to “Berlin”. I think [...]

When I was around 10, my parents took me to Stratford-Upon-Avon to see a Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of Twelfth Night in an effort to get me exposed to plays and especially Shakespeare before going through the trauma of secondary school English Literature lessons. I ended up going there several times with them and my school to see Romeo & Juliet, The Merchant Of Venice, All’s Well That Ends Well, Sheridan’s Rivals, Henry IVi, and many others.

Now that I live in London, I’ve continued to see plays old and new by the National Theatre, Royal Court, RSC, Almeida, and many others…. and I find that it stretches the part of my brain that I use for editing in a most pleasing way.

I had an interesting experience last week, when we were getting some actors (from the sketch show I’m currently editing as a NFTS TV student’s graduation piece) to do some additional voicework to help ease transitions/ smooth over some cuts we’ve had to make to the sketches.
As we were running late, I had to go to pick up one of the [...]

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 [...]

(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 [...]

… 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 [...]

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 [...]