Short Films

Sifting through most of the absolutely terrible short films on both youtube and icewhole.com it's always nice when you come across a really good one.....

Association of Independent Creative Editors

These are the winners from the awards from the 'Trailer Wars' in which an editor has to change the film to a new genre from a list. These are absolutely amazing......

No Booze Means Productive Weekend Shock Horror!

Didn't go out at all this weekend. Which meant the time i'd have spent in the gutter was actually spent on massaging my ego.

I miss working on things and i miss people telling me how brilliant i am. Shame.....

Once again, i've ballsed up the compression for youpissin'tube so it'll be best to let it load before playing.....

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

This is currently on at the Natural History Musuem and is absolutely incredible..... An exhibition on lcd screens which i'd never seen before. Mind you, when you're spending £10,000 on your camera you're probably wanna show it in HD.

£3.50 un'all..... Lovely.

Deary Me....

ahhhhhh where does all the time go? once more in for the kill, now it's too cold and i feel too old. Nothing since last April? Not even a conclusion on my whole looniversity life? Not so much as a by-your-leave, charming. Truth be told i forgot all about it. Maybe it was the end of an era, the celebrations that followed or maybe it's the fact that post-that colour render you see below, i have nothing of any worth to warrant a blog entry (apart from the 2.1 of course, obviously! Also, the website went up to coincide with the dvd - http://www.davidsextonmagic.com - I really, really like the dvd as well and unlike EVERYTHING else i done up until that point, i can still look at it months later.)

I was speaking to my extreemely talented old friend from the playground Mr. Timothy Woodall and he is in the middle of focusing all his god given talent on a short film and i told him he should document it through his blog cause i want to know all about it. Then it dawned on me i used to have keep a blog. I used to enjoy keeping my blog and more importantly, used to DO things to put on my blog.

So this is a catch up and a promise that i am going to make my life need a blog again...... I promise. It will not just be used to rant and talk about music..... well, maybe.

Problems

Last night my colour grading render was cut short when my computer informed me i had completely ran out on room on it.......

Nice

Masking in Motion

After about a week of none-stop problem solving or attempted problem solving i think i have finally got my head round masking in Motion. Building up these layers and masking them off is not the easiest thing to do and it's certainly not the fastest flowing technique. I bought some RAM for my computer before i started this project and these clips still slow it down when i'm working on them. God knows what it'd have been like if i hadn't of bought any......

Anyway, this is me doing my moody magician thing........

Green Screen Progress

This is how far i've got with this whole green screen malarky. I've come to realise that the lighting was the best for the green screen as the left hand side is more lit than the right hand side. This makes for a lot of shadows and completely messes up the keying in Motion.

My first attempts looked shocking, quite frankly. The movement from the cards and the shadows that they cast when moving through the air caused a lot of problems. So this morning i sat through the whole scene, going through it frame by frame and taking out the movement of the cards leaving the cards appearing on the table. So the footage you see below is from stop motion, if you can't tell.

So, this is how far i've got with it. I think it looks awful and it's going no-where near the final edit at this stage. However, maybe putting it back into Final Cut and putting a filter on it or something, i don't know.....

Once again, if anybody reading this knows anything let me know. Infact, i should start by asking is anyone reading this full stop.