I’ve spent the past few weeks playing with storyboards, trying out various demos of software as well as drawing them by hand (might as well put that A-level in art to some good use) and discovered that, on the whole, storyboards are completely not what I thought they were. (For that matter they aren’t what …

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Got some seriously positive feedback on the script from a friend of mine in the States, which has given me a serious boost. Just what I needed as I was starting to get a bit down about it all. Have also made my first purchases – a set of three workman’s lights from Aldi’s (budget …

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I’ve spent hours bashing my head against the wall that is “what is the best way to shoot DV?” The answer, it seems, depends on what you want to do with the finished product. If you are shooting, as I am, DV on a camcorder that has the option of recording PAL in Progressive or …

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After a week of getting the Linux system tippity toppity and testing, I found out that my friend has a copy of Avid Xpress Pro on a decent PC we can use. D’oh! So last night it was back to Microsoft Windows land again – I desperately wanted to keep Fedora running as I really …

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Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite… I think I’m going blind! Still, the good news is that Secret Thoughts of Angels (Draft …

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