I’m mildly excited at the moment as this weekend I’m helping Ken Colley shoot a little short which I’ll be editing for him. He’s hiring a Canon XL-H1 for the shoot, so it’ll be my first foray into the world of Hi-Def (albeit HDV). I’m hoping to have the first cut of Voice of Silence …
Monthly Archive: October 2006
Oct
22
Good Things
The editing and writing continues full pelt filling all my spare time, but the process has been aided by three new Good Things I’ve started using. The first Good Thing is Dave’s progress trackers. I’m not sure why I never used them before, they give me an enormous amount of satisfaction when I update them. …
Oct
13
Stop! Carry on…
Chris came round last night to view the first five minutes or so of edited footage. By way of back story to the whole Voice of Silence project, it was actually written and shot back in 1998 over two weeks (in the building next door to where Charlie Chaplin grew up). Due to the unusual …
Oct
09
Bin it!
After an excellent meeting betwixt Chris, Darren and Myself last Thursday evening, I’ve spent every spare moment I’ve had sorting and organising all the shots for the film. It’s fascinating to see how the film morphed as it was shot, with scenes being improved or added, or simply changed where budget or location prevented ideas …
Oct
05
Deep sigh of relief
Found the fix to my Canon XM-1 (GL-1 to our US cousins) big fat ugly ‘Remove the Cassette’ issue. I just had to manually rewind the tapes a little and hey presto they worked. I’m a bit suspicious that the camera may have messed the tape a bit, but as the two main problems occurred …
Oct
04
Into the Infinite
Have spent the past few days getting to grips with Chris’s film. He dropped off the tapes last week and explained a little about the film. Since then I’ve been reading the script and going through the information he already had on a portable hard disk drive. I guess it’s a sign of improving technology, …