Frame by Frame

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 [...]

(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 [...]

The documentary’s finally onto the post-editing stages (i.e. sound and colour). We ended up getting another editor who spoke Italian to do some work to finish it off, I think the final count was 10 or 11 weeks in the edit between everyone.
This is one of the later stages, complete with temporary subtitles. The main video (and associated audio) is mostly [...]

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 [...]

Because of commitments to other films, the documentary film that I’m editing is effectively a week into the process, or a week and a half ‘real’ time. It’s been an interesting one to plan out – mostly because the rushes are largely in Italian (with some parts in Ukranian), and I speak neither language. An [...]

There must be some law of blogging or general internet social communication, similar to Godwin’s Law (but without the Nazis), which covers the situation that whenever things which are worthy of telling others are happening you’re too busy actually doing them to be able to tell anyone else about them in a way which is [...]

Over the last few days, during the quiet(er) moments, I’ve been trying to do some work on my website. Some of it’s not visible, some of it’s very small indeed – for example, the new favicon which I’m actually quite happy with:

Some of it however is fairly significant. I’ve uploaded some clips to my previous [...]