Frame by Frame

… 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 [...]

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 [...]

The first excercise of the second year editing course at the NFTS is Richard III. We get the rushes from the 1995 feature film directed by Richard Loncraine and starring Sir Ian McKellen, and each of the six students on the course edit a section. All of the parts are put together at the end [...]

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 [...]