phetheringtonnz

Russell Square

iPad’s are good for their versatility. I’m experimenting with their functionality with photos and video for a project I have coming up. The Photoshop Express app seems reasonable for fixing up photos. These photos are taken near my work, on the iPad. What do you think? Heavily pixellated, non? They’d be better for close-ups than …

Continue reading “Russell Square”

iAddicted

My work got me an iPad for filmmaking purposes. So I’m researching apps to suggest to students in the new academic year. Whaddya know? There’s a WordPress app. Right, experiment done. Back to work.

Reading Scripts

Tips for Producers and Scriptwriters: read many many screenplays.

Copper Update

Copper had its premiere.

Producer’s Masterclass

I’ve been attending Producing Workshops. Not filmmaking, but Producing

Videography gigs

I’ve been filming lectures and having editing issues.

An Elderly Neighbour and digital television

So I tried to help my elderly neighbour with her TV. It backfired.

Cabin In The Woods

What do you mean, Cabin In The Woods straight to DVD in NZ and Australia???

Dance Shows – a weekend of Bellydance and Cabaret

The teachers of the Bellydance classes that I have joined both were performing this weekend. I went to both shows.

Strange film opportunities

…The director thought that my role was to provide funds, and proceeded to hire cast and crew and source locations (without a script). He then got outraged that I would ask questions about the crewing (39 cast and crew? Who’s paying for that). He also thought that a gaffer is a sound recordist, that you need 4 camera people and did not understand what a DoP is, that he needed a 2nd and 3rd AD, and thought that I would be a 5th camera operator on set. Needless to say, the relationship has ended and I am no longer producing these films…