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Off-topic Rants
MIFF Opening Night. Best in Years. So it’s probably no surprise for you to all hear that I love the Melbourne International Film Festival. Every year I get super excited when the festival comes around cause it literally allows me to go nuts and watch 50 odd movies in just 19 short days. Some might call it crazy, I think it’s bloody brilliant.
Tonight I had the pleasure of talking to members of the Australian Screen Editors guild about “Digital Workflows”. The event was recorded, so at some stage in the future, I’d imagine you’ll be able to see it online – but in the meantime, here are some quick notes from the discussions, just so that people can easily find things we were talking about.
LateNite Films is lucky enough to be situated in the heart of Australia’s upcoming acting scene – 16th Street Acting Studio. As part of our support and collaboration with this inspiring collective, we often work with them on their films. In the last week, I have had the pleasure and challenge of editing more than 22 scenes from various feature films which the students have been studying, Directed by Kim Farrent, who also directed the award-winning documentary, Naked on the Inside.
The Making of the tentatively titled documentary, Cycle on Ceylon. Written by Guest Blogger and our very good friend, the amazing Michael Lutman. Jacqui Hocking of LateNite Films trying to bargain my safe return with my parents in the USA in order to help fund the film. Thankfully BP de Silva stepped in as my parents do not have enough money to save their hostage kept son.
All good ‘Payne’ puns have been made. No Description then. Directed, Edited, Sound and Score by Michael Shanks.
It’s like Toy Story, only shittier. Directed, Edited, Sound Design and Score by Michael Shanks.
Up until this year LateNite has never really dabbled in music videos. It seems like an odd choice considering some of my favourite directors started in music videos. People like Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Marc Webb, Mike Mills, Anton Corbijn and even David Fincher all made a blistering start to their careers by playing around and experimenting with their style through the predominantly visual medium that is music videos.
Ok so it’s been a while since I’ve written a blog entry. I’d like to blame the fact that I’ve been extraordinarily busy with projects (which is no lie, I totally have) but really there is no excuse for not taking 10min to write a cute little blog post.
Last April I flew from Rio (where my TOPtoTOP footage will be shown at the Rio20+ World Earth Summit) - to Sao Paulo to meet, film & play with World X Cycle. It was an amazing weekend. I flew back to Melbourne (with all my C02 emissions being offset by MyClimate) and finalised post for my short TOPtoTOP doco on Saint Helena Island, before I started preparing for the next major project in Sri Lanka. We just finished filming last week - here’s a sneak peak:
Here is an exciting video clip Directed, Edited and Performed by Michael Shanks, for his own band, Roadgeek. Winner of Best Music Video (shared with David Michôd for his clip Loveless by Children Collide) and Best Independent Music Video at the 2012 St Kilda Film Festival – SoundKilda Competition.