I now have perfect sound on House of Donn. Ben came round the other day and did a bit of ADR. I had an old radio mic which I’d spent 50 quid repairing so I could use it for SToA, but as it happened, remained unused. So I dug it out to use for this exercise. Ben sat in my lounge lip syncing to the film on the TV while I sat through in my little den recording it. It worked really well as my lounge is about the same size as the room we shot the footage in, so there is very little difference in room ambience.
The web work and development on the Digifest film festival continues at a pace (you can check out the work in progress at http://www.digifest.co.uk).
It’s basically boiled down to Ben, John Rackham, Lucy Lungley and Myself to organise the event. I’m working on the posters and web site, Ben and John are dealing with PR and Lucy is being generally very helpful.
The first event has been confirmed for Monday July 3rd at the Chambers in Folkestone, so get on down there if you can on that evening.
I’m really pleased with the line-up we’ve got. There’s the world premiere of ‘House of Donn’; John’s short, ‘The Liberator’; a couple of non-narrative pieces: Lucy’s ‘Up Close and Personal’ and James Newton’s ‘Readings’; a documentary about a nuclear (I think) incident in Iraq that was all hushed up back in the 90′s; and to top it all, Ken Colley talking about his life and career (and working with me!) and showing his short film ‘Nearly Silent Film.’
It should be a really good evening.
Sammy left a comment on my previous post suggesting I check out Iklipz, which I have duly done. I must say it doesn’t look half bad.
It’s still in Beta at the moment, but it seems to be very good. I’m not sure how it’llfair against sites like YouTube and iFilm. My big problem with those is that there is just too much stuff on them. At least, with it being early doors for Iklipz, there’s a chance of people finding my film on there! I’m uploading StoA as I write. I’ll do a fuller report a litle later once I’ve had more time to play with it.
1 comment
deepstructure says:
June 9, 2006 at 2:52 am (UTC 1 )
all of these sites have the same problem – loads of data and no good ways to sort and search through it. we need excellent rating systems combined with excellent search and metadata systems.
eventually everything is going to be online. the differentiation will be who provides the better tools for delving through it all.