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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Hit!

Thursday, August 28, 2008

So, our shooting escapades went well on Sunday as it turned out. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Yesterday, my new Mac arrived. For the first time in the history of Macs-I’ve-Owned, this one is of the desktop variety. In other words, the hard drive doesn’t drag the overall speed of the rest of the [...]

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Some Indie Film-shoot Rules

Sunday, August 24, 2008

If you’re a director, DP, producer, soundie or any other person of ‘importance’ on an indie film set, do not talk about previous productions while working. Nothing slows things down like a segway into the shoots of yesterfilmcanister. If you have the choice to eat before moving to your next location, or eat at your [...]

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Bastard Ending Post-mortem

Thursday, August 21, 2008

So, it’s time to critically assault the short film we did last month. Firstly, if you haven’t seen it already, you should probably watch it so you have some clue what I’m ranting about. Don’t worry if you don’t like it – that’s not the point of this exercise. The point of the exercise was [...]

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Soundies

Sunday, August 10, 2008

A Dutch Sonar Operator. No, this isn’t our frickin’ soundie – he’s much scarier, and has a cooler hat. A tiny, random thought: something all audio engineers have in common, other than being awesome for their ability to listen to the same sound for hours without going bat-shit crazy (or rather, without going any MORE [...]

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Multi-Camera Editing & Further Thoughts on the Interview

Sunday, August 10, 2008

I just had the experience of editing the multi-camera shoot we did the other week. We’ve shot with a B camera before, sure, but not quite the same – the B camera has usually been wild (which means getting random b-roll kinda crap) and we never bothered sync’ing the sound. Anyway, multi-camera editing is very [...]

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