Frame by Frame

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 [...]

… 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 graduating editors of the NFTS got to spend the weekend at this year’s Doc/Fest – delegates pass, hotel and travel expenses paid by the school. So off we trotted up the M1… traffic accidents and randomly somehow getting lost in Coventry notwithstanding, it was great to spend some time with the others who went [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]