Frame by Frame

Barring the usual paperwork, signing-offs and graduation itself, my time at the NFTS is just about over. The cafetiere and coffee bean grinder have been taken home, the relevant exports have all been done – and copies made for me to be able to advise remotely on any unclear points. The animation is still going [...]

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 [...]

As a student, I got free access to the press and industry screenings at this year’s London Film Festival. I could also attend daytime (before 5pm) screenings so long as they hadn’t sold out. It’s a pretty good deal, and one that I’ll be sorry to see go once I leave the NFTS.
I managed to [...]

(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 [...]

Today another editor on my course came into my room sounding rather excited about Microsoft’s latest announcement for user interfacing – the Windows 7 multi-touch:

Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7
This of course is a subject we’ve all discussed before – what if editing could have the user interface of Minority Report?

In the film, Tom Cruise reviews [...]

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 [...]