Editing and Empathy in the Fictional Film
by Eric on March 28, 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, (…)
Rape of a Nation Wins Second Place at Best of Photojournalism, 2009
by Eric on March 28, 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 (…)
copy-and-paste vs. drag-and-drop
by Eric on March 22, 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 (…)
Manhattan Bridge, Front St., Brooklyn (with iPhone)
by Eric on March 22, 2009
Made with $1.99 TiltShift application for the iPhone.
XML to the Rescue
by Eric on March 14, 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 (…)