Archives for March, 2009
Editing and Empathy in the Fictional Film
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Editing is an act of empathy. Every cut should be in service of presenting your story in the most authentic, truest manner possible. To do that, you must immerse youself in the lives of your characters. Know them. More importantly, understand them as you create their world.
Rape of a Nation Wins Second Place at Best of Photojournalism, 2009
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Marcus Bleasdale’s Rape of a Nation, a MediaStorm project I produced in January 2008, has been honored with second place in the Documentary Video category at this year’s Best of Photojournalism contest.
MediaStorm also picked up third place for Jonathan Torgovnik’s Intended Consequences, produced by Chad A. Stevens.
First prize went to Jenn Ackerman’s Trapped: Mental [...]
copy-and-paste vs. drag-and-drop
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Sometimes when Final Cut crashes, I need to retrieve a sequence from the auto save vault that’s more up to date than the crashed version. I’ve found it quicker to copy-and-paste the backup sequence in to my project than it is to drag-and-drop. The latter method involves a spinning beach ball that is perilously long [...]
Manhattan Bridge, Front St., Brooklyn (with iPhone)
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Made with $1.99 TiltShift application for the iPhone.
XML to the Rescue
Saturday, March 14th, 2009
I’m currently editing Danny Wilcox Frazier’s multimedia version of Driftless. The project includes lots of beautiful video, shot by a professional DP in 24p anamorphic format with a DV codec. We’ve blown the the 4:3 standard footage up to 16:9 1080 high-definition, while retaining the 24 frames-per-second frame rate. The footage is now being edited [...]