Frame by Frame

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 [...]

Playing around with Wordle, I entered in the text from my ‘about’ sections here and on my website as well as my CV…. and generated the above. It’s interesting to see without the surrounding context – some things are titles or synopses of projects, some things are background information which aren’t so relevant to what [...]

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 [...]

I’ve just migrated my blog from movable type to wordpress. Whilst I do enjoy learning new programming languages (ish) and being able to customise to my heart’s content, movable type was just a little too advanced for me and most of the time I had no idea what had gone wrong whenever something didn’t appear right, [...]

I always find myself fascinated by people who don’t keep a diary. Maybe I’m absent-minded, maybe I just have too damn much going on in my life and don’t necessarily know what I’ll be doing in 6 hours’ time let alone next week, maybe they all just have some higher filing system set up…. but [...]