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Life Just Is: Finishing the Film
Back in April 2011, I wrote a piece for DN detailing the journey that I undertook with my debut feature (as writer/director), Life Just Is, as we went From Paper Cut to Fine Cut. What follows is an attempt to sketch out what happened next… In the run up to the last piece, my editor [...]
The Writing Never Ends
The Benefits of Being a Writer/Director on Your First Feature Film It was day 14 of our 16 day shoot of Love Magical, a wild and crazy romantic comedy. Our script was 105 pages, we were averaging seven pages a day with very little room for error. On day 14, we arrived at our location, [...]
Bunraku Opening Title Sequence
Way back when DN was still young we featured Guilherme Marcondes’ short Tyger and also had him join us for an interview. So I was pleased to see Guilherme applying his puppetry/animation skills to the stunning title sequence for Guy Moshe’s Bunraku. The folks over at Art of the Title have a great interview with [...]
7 Tips For Getting a Great Score for Your Film
If you’re thinking about getting an original score for your film, at some point you’ll want to start working with a composer. You might be pretty comfortable talking music, you might not. DO NOT PANIC. You directed your cast and crew, right? Whatever you did to get them to perform in the way you wanted [...]
Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film – 2011
Even if you have little interest in the ubiquitous ‘list’ style of blog post, there’s one annual collection that anyone with a propensity towards indie film looks forward to annually and that’s Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Aside from our usual level of curiosity as to which directors we should run to [...]
EIFF2011: All Change
As regular readers of DN may well know, this year will mark my third annual visit to the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Around this time last year I wrote about the anticipation I felt at the days of films, networking opportunities and socialising I had ahead of me. This year the anticipation is very much [...]
DN Picks: Apr11
April brought a stack of double bank holidays in the UK, but the clock never stops here at DN. Our picks of the month… Essential Killing – MarBelle’s review of Jerzy Skolimowski’s “brave piece of cinema” was full of glowing praise for some challenging filmmaking and rightly so. Vincent Gallo excels in what is surely [...]
Life Just Is: From Paper Cut to Fine Cut
Postproduction for my debut feature, Life Just Is, started back in November last year (the film was shot over 14 days in October). My editor, Murat Kebir, was very keen to spend time organising all the footage before we began cutting together, so I took it as an opportunity to familiarise myself with the rushes. [...]
DN Picks: Mar11
OK you got us! March on DN has undoubtedly been dominated by SXSW and so too have the picks of the month. But on the other hand, there are also four documentary picks this month and how many film sites could say that? DN SXSW2011: Way of the Morris – Tim Plester – I remember [...]
SotW: How We Launched Our Film Online
Not content with hitting us with one of the best animated shorts you’re likely to see all year, the guys at Short of the Week have now provided a detailed explanation of how they launched The Thomas Beale Cipher online. It’s a great insight for filmmakers who want to get their film noticed and shows [...]
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