or DoPing my first feature I have just finished three out of ten days of scheduled production for a feature film. We’re shooting in Hackney and Westbourne Park. The story concept is by first-time director Swapnil Waghmare. Swapnil is Producing with Noel Wilson. The script was written by Catherine Adams, who is also starring in …
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Updates on my film projects: All I Do Is Dream
ALL I DO IS DREAM Pitch: A glitzy new short dance film. Recreating glamorous Hollywood films of a bygone age. A new short film set in Broadway New York about a young woman’s dream to dance. My role: Production Manager, First Assistant Director. I’m working with the Producer, Kira, and the Writer/Director, Andrew, of This Big …
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Editing: Reasons for a cut
Multiple Oscar winning editor extraordinaire Walter Murch (who literally wrote THE book on editing) famously said… An ideal cut (for me) is the one that satisfies all the following six criteria at once: It is true to the emotion of the moment It advances the story It occurs at a moment that is rhythmically …
Silent Films to see
I was listening to The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith podcast for The Artist, with writer-director Michel Hazanavicius. By the way, totally subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or listen to it from the Blogger website. There are some amazing Q&As there, and Goldsmith is a great interviewer. In response to an audience question, Hazanavicius lists …
Rural Victoria
On my way to London, I spent a week in Victoria. I went out to Rural Victoria to visit a friend. On the way home, I shot and recorded this video.
It is the first of many of these that I am making. What I do is take photographs of a location, and then record the ambient sound of that location. Hopefully you can better experience where I was.
Please to enjoy
Busy Times 