Sound editing 30 minute bootcamp Vickie Sampson presented this 30 minute walk through at LAFCPUG about what your sound editor needs from all aspects of production, but also from you as the film...
Category - Craft
Anatomy of an Action Scene
Shot by Shot – Cutting an Action Scene In this great three part video essay Jim Emerson dissects the structure of several action scenes from The Dark Knight, Salt and The French...
Anatomy of a grade – node by node breakdown
Node by node breakdown of a grade Colorist Chris Hall from Basher Films has created nine episodes of ‘Anatomy of a grade’ which provides a creative look at some of his grading work. In...
A.C.E. Editors on their craft…
American Cinema Editors share their wisdom Cinema Editor Magazine, the official magazine of ACE, has a great selection of articles and interviews from its editors – for which you’ll have...
Sound Design on The Dark Knight Rises
Behind the scenes on The Dark Knight Rises The SoundWorks Collection by Michael Coleman is always worth keeping an eye on for his 10 minute behind the scenes featurettes on the sound design of the...
Christopher Nolan on The Batman Trilogy
Christopher Nolan in conversation The Treatment has interviewed director Christopher Nolan on all three releases of Nolan’s epic Batman trilogy and he is, as ever, erudite and entertaining...
Interviews with Master Editors
Master Editors – Anne V Coates Anne V Coates has cut such great films as Lawrence of Arabia, In the Line of Fire, Out of Sight and Erin Brokovich and in this excerpt from Justin Chang’s...
Crafting the edit – Episodic TV
Editing lessons from The Vampire Diaries Nancy Forner has written a great article over on Creative Cow with her thoughts on the art and craft of turning 40 hours of dailies into 42 minutes of...
A Month of Color Grading Learning
Learning the fundamentals of Color Grading Patrick Inhoffer of the Tao of Color (and a thuroughly fantastic free newsletter) has been blogging for the past month on splicevine on the fundamentals of...
Screenwriters on The Storytelling Process
Tony Gilroy & Terry George on Writing Hitchcock said that every film has three births; The Script, The Shoot and The Edit. Learning about the other two births is fundamental to pulling off the...
2 hours with a colorist
Colorist training – a lecture on real projects Colorist Rob Bessette delivers a 2 hour lecture walking through the fundamentals of color grading and then demonstrating how he graded a...
Interview with color assistant from EFILM
What does a colorist’s assistant do? Aaron Williams has a great interview with his friend Luis Silva on what its like to work at EFILM, one of the world’s major DI houses as a...
Telling a story well
Here are some of the best things I’ve found on the art, craft and power of storytelling. Storytelling Bobette Buster and the Arc of Storytelling gives a 15 minute overview of what Hollywood...
Learning ‘Why’ To Edit
Learning the logic of film editing Check out these beautifully put together videos by Joe LaMattina, featuring Angus Wall & Kirk Baxter talking about editing The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, and...
Interviews with film editors
DP/30 has a whole host of candid 30 minute interviews with many film editors including the legendary Michael Kahn and Thelma Schoonmaker. Here are a selection of my favourites. There is also a...