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 [...]

According to the majority of agencies, it seems that to really get onto their books (and therefore have access to the types of jobs which don’t get advertised), then either I need to get more broadcast experience or there needs to be less recession. And since the former is somewhat of a catch-22 and the [...]

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 [...]

… 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]