Gatehouse Films

Gatehouse Films, filmed on thursday in the gatehouse at BSU, edited as it should have been done. In 3 parts due the terms of uploading to youtube

i found something

Graeme Duane this guy is a cameraman of choice for National Geographic among his other jobs and i have rather enjoyed his works on TV and a few of the nature docs i have on dvd.

Production Manager

well some good news, i have been offered the roll of production manager on liquid soap. liaising with each episodes production team and the of members of crew i will be making sure everything runs smoothly and the shows keep the general feeling throughout. my production assistant is ciarans house mate myles and ciaran himself is the post production manager.
we have a couple of weeks whilst ideas are formulated and first draft scripts are written before getting together again with the rest of the production teams to see where we are.

also i am taking part in a collaboration with a fashion student to create a film showcasing her garments. lots of ideas flying for this, should be good.

well was this intentional

just watching the great human race on beeb 2 and the bit with the lass in the tent at night at the place where the oldest human remains have been found.
if you watched this i hope you noticed it was like a game of 20 questions. harry hill take note...
im not sure whether i would have used such a piece like that in this unless the idea is to try and keep it light hearted in an attempt to try catch what might be a normally uninterested audience(read fear of loosing mentioned audience if you like)

nearly done

well the group project was handed in yesterday morning. today, though i was late for the class to view all the projects i understand there was some positive feedback, but also some things that could have been changed.
most of it i think i had already realised, like where mike had too much head room and the lighting problems. also i realised during the editing that there should have been more close ups on the contributors individual tattoos and no actual stills in the project. with hind sight that is kind of what i envisioned but was unable to vocalise. as a group we decided to go with stills as they could be more visually pleasing so we have however learnt a lesson and know where we have gone wrong, but also where we have gone right.

mac or pc

mac
thats the answer, im going to kill my pc, im in the process of trying to recover data from the hard drive so i can copy it onto my portable hard drive and then leave the pc well alone. gods dammit!
yeah so i got a fun day and late night ahead of me, grrrrrrrr

editing trials and tribulations

well ive been editing the two projects we have been doing and getting stressed when meeting some problems along the way and finding it a rewarding experience when everything goes well.

im editing my individual project in premier pro CS3 and whilst being familiar with the programme and finding it is actually not so accessible when going into advanced features, it doesnt really go into the depth you get in FCP 6 like at uni. it may be that i have been spending more time with FCP as i have been spending more time on the group project to date which has been edited with a apple mac, and not had time to try out techniques learnt in class at home on Premier. ill have to spend some time getting used to using it or upgrade to PPCS4 and try again :)

few problems, my dodgey pc doesnt seem to like at the moment, keep getting the blue screen of death, not good. and the fact i didnt realise that FCP on the power book was set up for HD720 and not 1080i and so had to render every little bit i had edited every now and then. frustrating to say the least.

otherwise its been pretty good and i can safely say i reckon that it doesnt matter which programme is used to edit with, but as FCP is currently 'standard' i will be using this as often as i can. i wonder if i can find a mac OS that would run on an ex windows set up...