Archives for October, 2008
Observations on Errol Morris’s Standard Operating Procedure
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Still images don’t have to fill the frame or even touch its borders.
The right score makes a documentary much more compelling. The right scores includes the use of motifs so that musical themes act in harmony with the film’s themes.
Compelling interviews do not need b-roll to cover cuts. Fades, flashes, and other camera angles work [...]
The Single Greatest Website in the World
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Upside Down Dogs.
MediaStorm Workshop #2
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
The second MediaStorm Advanced Multimedia Reporting Workshop finished at the beginning of October. Bob Sacha led the charge. I added a bit of editing and production assistance at the end of the week.
From the description:
Since 1934, Amateur Night at the Apollo has been one of the best-known launching points for singers and performers in the [...]
Creating Subclips in Final Cut
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Previously, I lamented the lack of an expedient method for renaming sections of a long, digitized clip. We’ve been using the following method at MediaStorm.
WIth your long clip in the timeline, set an in and mark where you’d like the clip to begin and end.
Make sure your playhead is between those two marks and hit [...]