We finally got to shoot the extra footage of ‘Gertrude’ writing her book on Tuesday night and I spent last night cobbling it together. It looks quite good. Thing is I can’t quite get my head around what she should be saying in the voiceover. Still, I’ve plenty of time to think about it as …
Monthly Archive: October 2005
Oct
27
Oct
20
Pottering in the Garden
Weird, I’ve spent so much time this week messing about with the blog, I realised just now that I hadn’t actually posted anything lately. Jakob Nielsen struck again this week, his newsletter being the somewhat apt, 10 Design Mistake of Weblogs. I realised I was guilty of more than a couple of these, so have …
Oct
11
What You Dram Is What You Get
Being something of a webby type person during daylight hours, I get the e-mail alerts from the guru of Web Usability, Jakob Nielsen. This weeks alert was about the new User Interface paradigm that Microsoft have adopted for next years release of Office 12. They refer to it as Results Oriented, or WYGIWYS – What …
Oct
10
Off the fence
I’ve now completed my backwards pass through SToA and I’m much happier with the results. I’ve completely re-edited some scenes, looking for better performances from the actors and more dramatic ways of cutting it together, and others I’ve just trimmed and tweaked. It’ll still need further work, but for now I can concentrate on shooting …
Oct
06
slegnA fo sthguohT terceS
The re-edit of SToA continues at a pace. I’m working backwards through the film re-editing scene at a time. Not sure why, I just felt like editing the ritual scene first, and then it made sense to work back to the beginning, at which point I could then shoot the extra footage for the opening …