Showing posts with label editing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label editing. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Double Trouble



Just a quick and basic test of using a matte to get myself on screen twice at once. We'll be using this effect soon in a short comedy about time travel called Bob Time. I feathered the edge of the matte to keep it from being too harsh. I think I can see some blurring along the line of the matte, but it's not too obvious.

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Friday, December 14, 2007

Teas are good

We shot footage for Venn episode zero (a teaser/promo for the series proper) on Saturday and I started editing it together yesterday. It's very English, but right now I'm trying to get the "Tea and Sympathy" sequence down to a minute.

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

One week film challenge

Toshiba have offered to give me a laptop to review for a week or two. The details haven't been finalised yet, but I hope to get it later this month. They've said I can test it in any non-destructive way I can think of, so I'm going to see how good it is for making movies.

The challenge is to plan, shoot, edit and release a short film in a week, with as much work as possible done on the laptop. We'll start by batting around a few ideas now so I can put together a rough script or treatment for the start of the week. Work on the script over an evening, shoot stuff the next couple of days and then edit it all together.

I don't know when I'll be getting the laptop, and it may turn up at short notice, so I can't say when I'll be doing this. If you're interested, would like to be involved and/or can seed the project with ideas of what you'd like to shoot, please get in touch.


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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Bluescreen

Today, I noticed some YouTube videos on Chromakey (Blue / Green Screen)

The tutorial can be found Here


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Sunday, April 08, 2007

The art of the edit

I found this in the Spinneyhead archives- Making the cut, an article about the art of editing film. It makes a good companion to the last post.

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Thelma Schoonmaker- master editor interviewed

Thelma Schoonmaker has worked on most of Martin Scorsese's films and is often cited as the person who gets his visions cut together just right. The Independent interviewed her about her life and career in film. Sadly there were no words of wisdom on just how the art of editing works.

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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Video compression basics

Progress on editing the footage for Memory is slow, I know. Soon, hopefully, I shall be facing the problem of compressing video files for upload. The BBC has a short introduction to compression technologies, both hardware and software, which can serve as a start.

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