So, it’s been a while. Sometimes I get very busy at work, so not a lot of filmmaking happens. But this weekend writer Steve and I met for a discussion of the Winter project and set some short-term goals, so it feels like things are moving again. The chief difficulty with a greenscreen project is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Filmmaking’
First Steps to World Domination
Posted in Filmmaking, Winter, tagged Filmmaking, greenscreen, vfx, web serial, Winter on August 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Teaser details for “Winter”
Posted in Filmmaking, My Films, Winter, Writing, tagged Filmmaking, storyworld, Winter on June 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Scriptwriter extraordinaire Steve Turnbull has announced details of our latest project on his blog, adaddinsane. This is the flagship project in our shared story-world, which is very exciting because the setting Steve has created is far too rich to fully explore in one short serial. The words “epic” and “independent” are strange bedfellows, but I [...]
Monsters trailer shoot wrapped!
Posted in Directing, Filmmaking, My Films, tagged Filmmaking, monsters on February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My knee hurts. Somehow in all the running to and fro between the location and our “trailer” (Steve’s house) I did something to it, and now it’s a bit swollen and painful to bend it. It’s particularly ironic since our volunteer stunt team spent two solid hours hurling each other into walls, kicking each other, [...]
Fun and games with the Canon 5D
Posted in Directing, Filmmaking, tagged canon 5d, Filmmaking, handheld, lens, monsters on February 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just spent half-an-hour going through the settings on the 5D we’ve hired for our Monsters pickup shoot. I had hoped to use the lenses from my wife’s 350D, but they don’t fit – the 5D has a monster mirror to go with the monster sensor, and EFS lenses are too deep to allow it [...]
More Monsters shooting…
Posted in Directing, Filmmaking, tagged Directing, Filmmaking, monsters, trailer on February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Under a week now to our Monsters pickup shoot on Saturday, and we’ve just lost our DoP, which is unfortunate. We’re just filming a handful of action scenes and dramatic reveals of characters who didn’t make the mini-pilot, which I’m looking forward to – should have time to experiment a bit with the blocking and [...]
Finding a Niche
Posted in Directing, Editing, Filmmaking, tagged blender, Filmmaking, vfx on February 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been trying to learn Blender on and off for a few days. Sadly I’m too busy at work and prepping for next week’s Monsters pickups to really get into it, but there’s certainly a wealth of tutorial material, and lots of inspiring examples. I’ve also recently followed a bunch of other filmmakers on Twitter, [...]
Manuskript – Protect and Survive
Posted in Directing, Editing, Filmmaking, My Films, tagged Filmmaking, manuskript, music video, protect and survive on January 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Watch video This was a classic case of “not what you know, but who you know”. Mike Uwins of Neon Zoo also happened to be the lead singer of legendary pop-goth band Manuskript, and he liked Darkest Dance enough to ask me to shoot a video for their new single, launching their latest album. This [...]
Planning ahead
Posted in Directing, Editing, Filmmaking, Winter, tagged Filmmaking, web serial, Winter on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So, here’s my current plans for 2010 – outside work, at least. I’ll post about my TT projects when they’re announced. • Write making-of posts for the rest of my films. I’m doing them in chronological order, and the more recent ones are bigger projects and fresher in my memory – which means the posts [...]
Stereoscopic 3D – worth the effort?
Posted in Filmmaking, Game design, Video games, tagged 3D, avatar, Filmmaking, vfx on January 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I went to see the IMAX 3D version of Avatar over Christmas – I was sure I ordered digital tickets but the projection didn’t look digital, judging by the registration on the credit scroll. It wasn’t as crisp as I expected either. Avatar is certainly a technical tour de force. The story is fairly well-worn [...]
Joss talks about Horrible business
Posted in Filmmaking, tagged distribution, Filmmaking, horrible, joss whedon, web serial on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a bit slow to repost this, but I didn’t have a blog back in February. Joss Whedon discusses the business model behind Dr. Horrible. In a nutshell, it cost $400,000 to make (including cast and writer’s fees, which were deferred) and has at least broken even. Some sites claim it has raked in $2.5m. [...]
