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Off-topic Rants
Sam Robinson wants to be taken seriously. After years of frustration, indifference and rejection, Sam’s had enough. Today’s the day that all of that changes. Today, he gets the job that makes something out of his pitiful existence. After a crazy night of near death experiences out with his best friend Tony and Tony’s sister May, Sam drags himself to another job interview, trusty briefcase in hand. A mix-up at the train station leaves Sam holding the wrong case – a case that belongs to a dangerous man, who owes it to an even more deadly villain. Stuck between two charging bulls, Tony and Sam have to think fast and work together to save their asses or risk losing everything.
Well it’s that time of year again – MIFF time! Apologies for the lack of blog posts recently. For those of you that have been keeping an eye on the site, you’ll know that I’ve been overseas since February and have only just arrived back (you can see some photos of my travels here). But now I’m back, and things are seriously busy at the office! We are working full steam ahead on our first feature film, SHOTGUN! – so things are certainly go, go, go! Stay tuned for details, but in the meantime…
For those of you that are needing a bit of inspiration, make sure you have a look at this TED Video staring James Cameron discussing life before Avatar. It’s well worth a look! Enjoy…
It seems like so long ago now that we were on the hunt for people to help us build an animatronic hippo for Pocket Bonfire’s production of “There’s a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake”! Well, not only has principle photography well and truly wrapped, but even post production is now slowly drawing to a close – which is all very exciting! For further details on the production make sure you keep an eye on Pocket Bonfire’s Website. Exciting times certainly lay ahead, as we have big hopes for this amazing little film! Congradulations Jaime Snyder (Director), Joel Sharpe (Producer), Jessica Lawton (Editor) and Lachlan Harris (Sound Design) for all their hard work! It looks like it’s paying off… We can’t wait to see the finished result!
Chicken Village in Vietnam I can’t believe that this is my first post for 2010! It seems as if I’ve been trying to put together this blog entry in my head for months now… and the fact of the matter is, I have! Lots of things have been happening, and I’ve got lots to tell… So from the offset – please let me warn you that this post may be a bit all over the place, with lots of random ideas, and no particular direction. But, hey! If you actually read this, then this is the kind of thing you’ve come to expect by now!
The amazingly talented director Rhett Dashwood has just wrapped post production on his video clip “Black Bones”, for a great band called Teenagersintokyo. The video clip looks amazing (it was shot on Vision Research’s Phantom high speed camera), however that’s the not the only reason I’m writing about it here.
It seems like ages since I last gave you all a progress report on the blog – and guess what, it has been! The last time I gave you a proper update was in June, and it’s now already November. How times flies! Well, as per usual, we’ve been busy. Very busy!
The company I work for (when I’m not busy doing latenite films related work) recently purchased a brand new MacPro. Nothing too fancy, just something that can easily handle offline editing in Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro. Here are the specs:
If you have read any of my previous blog entries here you would know that I am a long time Final Cut Pro user, but since the beginning of this year I have been working at an offline edit house (in addition to the time I spend doing latenite things!) that primarily uses Avid on Macs. As we solely do offline editing here and all of the grading and online is done at other more specialised post production facilities, generally speaking we don’t have to worry too much about gamma, colour spaces and getting files in and out of various programs. Most of our jobs are shot on 35mm, and get telecined to DVCAM which we then edit in DV-PAL, export an EDL + OMF and we’re done. For RED Projects we normally get dumped a hard drive full of R3Ds which we convert to DNxHD using RED Rushes and bring all these files in Avid via an ALE. Everything is fairly simple and straight forward.
At long last, finally some of our hard work is hitting a little thing they call the world wide web! Due to various reasons, we have decided to release Happy Sundaes to the world, free of charge and have also put the SAKOOZ teaser/trailer up on YouTube.