Creative Sound Design on Star Wars This is a great video featuring sound design ‘godfather’ Ben Burtt on the sound design needed to create the Star Wars universe. Ben Burtt also did the...
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Short Film Inspiration – Coward
Short Film Inspiration – Coward Coward is a stunningly shot (35mm anamorphic) World War One short film by director David Roddham and shot by Stephen Murphy. Check out the 28 minute short film...
Color Grading Peter Jackson Movies
Colour Grading The Lord of The Rings & King Kong A few more youtube gems of color grading Peter Jackson’s epic The Lord of The Rings and also King Kong. These have been taken from the...
Cutting an Oscar nominated documentary – ”If a tree falls”
Editing a documentary – Director & Editor Interview Johan Walters has a superb interview with Marshall Curry & Matthew Hamachek who both wrote and edited Oscar nominated documentary If...
Crafting a 1 Minute Film
How to cut a short film South African editor Johan Walters has a fascinating interview with director/editor Bauke Brouwer on what it takes to craft a one minute short film for the International One...
Color Grading a Fincher Film
Color Grading on Panic Room & Se7en A few youtube gems on color grading a David Fincher movie. About 5 minutes into the Panic Room featurette world class colorist Stephen Nakamura color corrects...
The Post behind Life of Pi, Cloud Atlas & Hitchcock
Feature Film Editorial Round Up One of the things that’s great about the online post production community is getting insights into the latest interesting feature films even before they hit the...
2 Hours with Veteran Film Editor Dede Allen
Dede Allen, Film Editor Interview Dede Allen was a veteran of the golden years of 60-70’s Hollywood, editing films like The Hustler, Bonnie and Clyde, Serpico as well as other classics like The...
5 Amazing Visual Effects Breakdowns
Step by Step Visual Effects Reveals Visual effects breakdowns are always compelling viewing for me, as they are like watching the post production process in reverse. Peeling back the wallpaper and...
Books On Film Editing – Part 2
More Books on Film Editing A while back I listed my ‘Top 5 Books on Film Editing‘. Since then I’ve read a few more and thought I’d list them here. There really is a wealth of...
Post Production on LOOPER
Cloud-based visual effects on LOOPER There are plenty of interesting goodies floating around the internet around the release of Looper and you can find some of the best ones compiled here. To kick...
A Personal Project: Raising £10k for the best of causes!
Important Update – September 2012 Over the past six months I’ve been helping to raise money for a small but amazing community school in Kampala, Uganda for a vital building project that...
TED: Filmmakers
Great Talks from Filmmakers on TED.com Ted.com is amazing and well worth a regular browse to inspire, entertain and enlighten yourself on many diverse and amazing topics. Its just brilliant from...
5 books for creatives everyone should read…
There are a small selection of books that I keep recommending to people (creatives and ‘non-creatives’ alike – in my mind everyone is creative in some way) that I think are worth...
Filmmaking from an editors perspective
AVID Rough Cut Interviews Avid Rough Cut has 40 episodes under its belt. They feature in depth interviews with filmmakers and editors on their craft, careers and insights on the world of filmmaking...