Frame by Frame

The line-up for the 53rd London International Film Festival was announced today, and you have not just one opportunity to see Cherry on the Cake, not just two…. actually, I’m not quite sure how many times they’ll be screening it. But there’s certainly a lot of opportunity to engage with it!
Cherry and her creator, Hyebin [...]

It’s that time of year.
‘Cherry On The Cake‘, the NFTS graduation animation I edited is playing at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival in the International Student Shorts Award section this month (incidentally competing against another NFTS graduation animation from the year before which just won a Welsh BAFTA), and ‘The Love Bureau’, the NFTS [...]

From the TV graduation project, ‘TV or Not TV?‘, some clips have been uploaded to YouTube by the producer/director, Guy Press. Please rate and/or comment them!
TV or Not TV? YouTube Channel
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And the animation  which I edited, ‘Cherry on the Cake‘, has had its DVD packaging finalised and it looks glorious. It’s now ready [...]

With the graduation ceremony at the start of the month came a lot of new websites (or at least placeholders) from my yeargroup at the National Film and Television School. We have profiles on the NFTS website for the next year or so with links where available (a lot of people don’t seem to have [...]

I’m starting to get a lot of emails and questions from people who are considering applying to the National Film and Television School this year or next, asking for tips and advice on the application procedure.
I can’t really say anything specific, mostly because I just don’t know. They’ll be looking for different things each year, [...]

… at least that’s what the certificate says. If you remove certain words.
My time at the NFTS culminated in 3 days of graduation screenings at the British Film Institute on the South Bank in London. Wednesday and Thursday were industry days – where various members of the film and television industry were invited to see [...]

Today I went to a preview of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was followed up by a really short Q&A session with the director David Fincher. How do you make a film like that? Well, you’re really meticulous in the way that you do it, working with people who are exactly on the [...]

Having just joined vimeo (username jaaed), I’m using the handy embedding feature to self-promote. Which of course is what blogs are for…. sort of.
So here’s my new showreel, updated from the previous to include my graduation films from the NFTS and some of the animations I’ve worked on at the school:

Editing Showreel Jan 2009 from [...]