Category - Creativity
Editing Documentaries with Scorcese
Studio daily have a short but interesting Q&A with editor David Tedeschi on what its like to work with Martin Scorcese on his numerous documentary films. Read all about it here.
Colour grading Cowboys & Aliens
Fxguide has a brilliant podcast with Steven Scott, colorist of many top features like Cowboys & Aliens, Captain America, Tree of Life, Iron Man 2, Jarhead to name just a few… He talks about...
Film Portraits & The Wisdom Project
Here is a great short talk, from the99percent.com, by Andrew Zuckerman on the lessons he learned whilst making the wisdom project. Insightful stuff. Here is the trailer for the final film…
5 Creative Culture websites
1. Kickstarter – watch this video and you’ll see why this is the future of everything, sort of. 2. Creative mornings – lots of cool creative people talking about what they do...
Harry Potter Colorist on FXpodcast
Fxguide’s podcast features an incredibly in depth interview with Peter Doyle, Senior Supervising colorist on Harry Potter 7 part 2 (he also worked on all three Lord of the Rings films and King...
Free Film – Sita Sings The Blues
Sita Sings The Blues is an epic animation project by Nina Paley, distributed under a creative commons license and freely available on the net. It took her three years to animate the whole thing in...
Baz Luhrman & his editors on Australia post…
Nice ‘podcast’ on the shooting (and more interestingly) post for Australia. A thoughtful 10 minute piece on the evolving technical and creative post process… free on Itunes.
Audio Explosion
Resonance is 11 minutes of animated audio exploration combining the creativity and talent of 20 international animators and 11 of ‘the best sound design studios’ around. My personal...
How to make your showreel great…
Make it like my friend Neil Edwards, who is the best editor I know and has a brilliant showreel for his shooting skills. This showreel is not only the funniest one I’ve seen but a great sales...
Download your learning
I’m all about learning. I love learning. I don’t know anyone who will ever tell you to stop learning. When you stop learning, you get boring very quickly. Here are some links to get you...
Newsletters – casting wide the net.
Newsletters are a simple way to stay abreast of the latest news and tech developments, viral videos and cool new sites. Here are three of my favourites… 1. Studio Daily – If it passes by...
If you really wanted to, you would have already…
A great post from Filmmakermagazine.com about the trap of being shackled to the idea that you need any money to make a film. If you really wanted to do it, you would just get out there are do it. The...
A beautiful short film
Tiny Inventions – Creative Genius!
Tiny Inventions are a creative dynamic duo called Ru and Max who do amazing things with real life materials and plenty of AE magic… Check out the film here and the making of on Red Giant TV...