Currently writing a 3 day course in New Digital Media for Signal Films in Cumbria. I am off to the Lakes to meet up with the Film Company next week 25th to the 28th of November! Really looking forward to spending some time even more North West than were I am presently and meeting up with everybody up there!
I’ll post my Teaching materials in the next few days…and so watch this space!
Here is the final edit of our short film Vacuum. I am still in the process of grading it but the edit has finally been locked down and we are currently entering it on the festival circuit. Here is the synopsis;
A psychological social horror about a young couple expecting their first child who move into a new home only to find themselves tormented by the strange behaviour of their clandestine next door neighbour.
Here is a short 5 second snippet of a Stylized CCTV & type treatment for the credits to our short film ‘Vacuum’. I exported a frame from the POV (point of view) shot of the camera in the film and then took it into After Effects. Basically, I used Video Copilot’s Twitch to create the havoc in the type and then used Video Copilot’s Riot Gear to add an old style film texture to it. In both the POV shot & the Film effect, I desaturated most of the colour and then used the Curves filter to create a high contrast texture for the Type to work over!
The 2nd film I cut was the main Creamfields’ piece! In all fairness, I made some pretty elementary mistakes on the whole shoot during the weekend; The biggest mistake was trusting what the weather was going to be like and I now realize that I do not have any Michael Fish qualities. I had decided to get the DJ performance footage first and leave the interview narrative till the sunday but as you can probably guess it absolutely chucked it down on the Sunday! That’s why there is no content from the actual festival clubbers. I therefore decided to change tact in the edit and begin the film with some Rostrum work of Thoughtful‘s photo’s. This was definitely a ‘Happy Accident’ as I would never have dreamed with starting the film like this. The photos really capture the essence of the moment whereas trying to film clubbers is always difficult as people tend to play up to the camera!
Cream decided to go with David Guetta’s ‘I Gotta Feeling’ track which again was really easy to cut to once I had put some minor little sound edits in! The hardest part of the edit was trying to put a narrative down and create a ‘backbone’ for the film. Note to self; Get your narrative sorted out first as this is the real backbone of the structure of the film. The cutaways will slot in really easy once you have your story - Narrative is King. I am not going to be too harsh on myself though as my favourite part of the film is the rostrum work.
Creamfields ’09 from the Hatch on Vimeo.
Here is the first film I edited for Creamfields ’09. I wanted to do a moody little edit with Sander Van Doorn arriving at Creamfields. Sander’s management company sent over his Purple Haze – ‘Bliksem’ track which was ideal to cut the film to. It was quite hard editing the actual helicopter footage into 30 seconds as there was so much good content. Had to be quite brutal in what stayed and what went. I also tried to be quite bold with changing shot sizes to vary the footage in the confined space.
Shot with a Sony Z1 – Edited in Final Cut Pro & graded in Color
Here are a couple of photos from the Sander Van Doorn Helicopter shoot! Sander decided to do a competition where the lucky winners would accompany him on a guided aerial tour of the Creamfields’ Festival site.
