Frame by Frame

When I was around 10, my parents took me to Stratford-Upon-Avon to see a Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of Twelfth Night in an effort to get me exposed to plays and especially Shakespeare before going through the trauma of secondary school English Literature lessons. I ended up going there several times with them and my school to see Romeo & Juliet, The Merchant Of Venice, All’s Well That Ends Well, Sheridan’s Rivals, Henry IVi, and many others.

Now that I live in London, I’ve continued to see plays old and new by the National Theatre, Royal Court, RSC, Almeida, and many others…. and I find that it stretches the part of my brain that I use for editing in a most pleasing way.

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 [...]

… as copied from a printout on the wall at the place where I digitise. Origin unknown. Argue on the precise ordering/ repetition amongst yourselves.

Optimism – “This could be really good.”
Confidence – “This is great!”
Doubt – “This is what they want, right?”
Resolve – “Fuck ‘em! We can do this!”
Despair – “Fuck, we can’t do this!”
Siege [...]

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 [...]

Our Richard III exercise is over. It was pretty enlightening, and we had some great tutors – namely Alex Mackie and Roger Crittenden. They were totally supportive, whilst pointing out possible weaknesses and parts which just didn’t really flow – right up to the very last moment. Literally. On the morning of the slightly flexible [...]

There’s something vaguely depressing in studying editing (and indeed working as an editor), in that the only cuts that people will tend to comment on are the bad ones. Most of the job is making the entire film look as if it flows naturally – sentences into one another (even if spoken days apart when [...]