Frame by Frame

We have yet to team up for our graduation fiction films, got documentary finally sorted at the start of the week (hopefully I’ll be getting some rushes on Monday for that)… but animation’s been in the works for a while now, so I thought I’d write a bit about that. Wednesday is our ‘final’ board [...]

Inspired by a comment by beowulf.grimbly: As part of the film school process, we constantly have reviews of the film as we’re working on the edit so that the tutors can advise when something doesn’t seem to be working out, ask the right sorts of questions about how necessary certain scenes are or the ordering [...]

I’ve just migrated my blog from movable type to wordpress. Whilst I do enjoy learning new programming languages (ish) and being able to customise to my heart’s content, movable type was just a little too advanced for me and most of the time I had no idea what had gone wrong whenever something didn’t appear right, [...]

Our Richard III exercise is over. It was pretty enlightening, and we had some great tutors – namely Alex Mackie and Roger Crittenden. They were totally supportive, whilst pointing out possible weaknesses and parts which just didn’t really flow – right up to the very last moment. Literally. On the morning of the slightly flexible [...]

The first excercise of the second year editing course at the NFTS is Richard III. We get the rushes from the 1995 feature film directed by Richard Loncraine and starring Sir Ian McKellen, and each of the six students on the course edit a section. All of the parts are put together at the end [...]

The new school year at the NFTS begins tomorrow. Of course, I’ve been back since Wednesday 16th, but that’s generally the lot of the editing students. One of us came back on the 2nd, but he’s mad (and was doing a few exciting extra-curricular projects). Personally, I was quite content to take the opportunity to [...]