Editing in an unknown language

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 [...]

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It never rains…

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 [...]

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Site updates

Over the last few days, during the quiet(er) moments, I’ve been trying to do some work on my website. Some of it’s not visible, some of it’s very small indeed – for example, the new favicon which I’m actually quite happy with: Some of it however is fairly significant. I’ve uploaded some clips to my [...]

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Screening of work in progress

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 [...]

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