Comments for Frame by Frame

Comment on ShuttlePRO v.2 by Judith Allen

Judith Allen — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:22:44 +0000

I use it in Final Cut a bit – largely for scrubbing through material and assembling rather than any of the trimming functions you get in Avid or any effects work… but I’m looking to learn Motion properly soon, so I’ll have to see if it’s intuitive to have a wheel or not.

Thanks for reading!

Comment on ShuttlePRO v.2 by salvador jaramillo

salvador jaramillo — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:51:28 +0000

I thought about getting this after an instructor recommended it. This blog post was very useful. Have you ever tried using it in other applications? (final cut, photoshop, color, after effects, etc)

By the way, love the blog. It’s quite informative.

Comment on Notable people encountered during my time at the NFTS by Judith Allen

Judith Allen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:51:47 +0000

The directing fiction course is especially competitive, but there’s no bias towards UK students as far as I’m aware.

I’m not sure how the directing selection works, but I’d guess it would depend more on your proven ability and potential to get something out of the school than what other people have to say. I couldn’t even say for sure at which stage of the application the reference checks come – they may only be made if you get through everything else so that the fewest people are inconvenient.

Comment on Notable people encountered during my time at the NFTS by Mathieu

Mathieu — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:38:56 +0000

Hi,
Thank you so much for relating your experiences from the NFTS. I want so badly to get into directing there for the 2010 intake. I was wondering if you could let me know just how competetive it is, and do they really favour UK students?
I am from Canada, and this is definetly a concern of mine.
Also, if you happen to know if the referees (references) are important to one’s application, and can help them in getting accepted. I ask this becuase I think at least one of mine is quite good., and I hope the NFTS places importance on them (or I may be out of line). I’m kind of in panick mode right now, as I really want to attend this school.
Any answers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
and congratulations on graduating

Comment on End of an era, and the freelance fear by Judith Allen

Judith Allen — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:28:35 +0000

Well from what I can make out just about anything remotely creative in the UK is freelance, so I’ve accepted this stage as being necessary for a while now.

Doesn’t make the future seem any less uncertain, of course….

Comment on End of an era, and the freelance fear by Andrew Birkhead

Andrew Birkhead — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:03:13 +0000

It sounds like you’re doing all the right things. Keep up the great work.
Good luck. Even with the drawbacks, freelancing is WAY BETTER than job-having!

Andrew

Comment on The Eight Stages of the Edit by Andrew Birkhead

Andrew Birkhead — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:19:33 +0000

9. Anger – ‘Fuck ‘em, they wouldn’t know a good edit if it hit them in the face!’

Comment on Showreel now online by dd

dd — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:08:38 +0000

Good one.

Comment on ShuttlePRO v.2 by Eduardo Serrano

Eduardo Serrano — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:29:52 +0000

I guess i need to take a look at this again. I have one in the basement, i bought like 2 years ago. I guess if I was used to tape decks, I’d probably use it more.

Do you have any tips for it?

Speaking of interfaces, i was really looking at this new Tangent Wave for controlling Apple Color. I guess at color grading those simultaneous moves ca really make a difference.

Cheers, nice blog.

Comment on Dead is the king. by Judith

Judith — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:41:41 +0000

Well the advantage of being at film school in an editing class with five others is that we all quite quickly learnt to watch each other’s work from the early stages through to the finished product and see the potential/ themes that we were bringing out (often with the same material in the early exercises). Even so, it’s still tricky when you know that the sequence you’re showing is nowhere near where you want it to be.

But it’s more of a distribution issue – exercises are copyrighted by the original filmmakers, and films made at the school are subject to all sorts of restrictions on uploading because of past problems. A few years ago one of the documentaries made here got short-listed for an Oscar, but then it was disqualified because the filmmaker had uploaded it on to youtube to show his friends and family. Since then it’s become quite difficult to even get material from a film approved by the school for showreel uploads!

But anyway, thanks for your comment and I hope you keep reading when I have something more to say!

Comment on Dead is the king. by beowulf.grimbly

beowulf.grimbly — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:32:21 +0000

Just wanted to say, really enjoying your blog.

I wanted to comment on this post first, because it’s editing of drama which I’m most interested (and least experienced) in. Like you say, it can’t be learned by reading about it, but I do enjoy reading about the challenges (and successes!) of editing fiction. Sometimes those techniques can also be applied to documentaries, as you mentioned.

Don’t know if you would ever consider posting examples, eg. “before & after” edits? It could be quite enlightening. Though I know most editors are loath to show unfinished work to anyone but their producer (or instructor)!