November 7, 2006

Chatting with DM...

... and trawling the archives, I came across this video and can't remember if I'd shared it already, but for those of you new to H.F.H.Q. here is a little video of the gang shooting in the bowels of the hotel (it made David laugh)...

Hallam Foe, a film by David Mackenzie starring Jamie Bell

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October 4, 2006

Scroll On

Reams and reams of footage, some good, some bloody dreadful, but the scrolling seems to go on forever.

(For me the whole process has massive emotional swings and I always get depressed at the start of an edit, don't know why, just always do. I'm starting to brighten up again now though.)

Col at the helm

Today, and the last week in fact, we have been wading through the footage that Angus and I shot for the 'making of'.

We are also working on a new structure for it as it seems it will be being broadcast as featurettes. Fingers crossed in that department, I think this is a cool idea and probably better for the finished product in this more episodic form.

So new idea means new treatment, new budget(s). Angus and I have our heads together though and have the beginnings of something interesting, which I will post as and when we get the go ahead (and we've finished writing it, of course.)

Scroll on, scroll on, scroll on, the answer is in there somewhere.

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September 7, 2006

Avid fan

This is just the coolest thing ever. Sliced bread ain't got nothing on this.

Avid on my laptop

All the suites where I would normally do my post-production are busy with commercials at the moment. As a solution to this problem they have put Avid Media Composer on my laptop. This is simply the coolest thing I have ever seen. A fully blown Avid in a bag. It digitises from the camera and then I edit. I mean, how great is that?

Sorry for all of you who read this and are not interested particularly in filmmaking per se but more the journey of Hallam Foe, but this is a major one for me. Sad but true!

The upshot of this is that I am now wading my way through the hours of footage I shot (and in fact even more so the stuff that Angus shot) for the making of documentary. This footage will also be used by Special Treats who do the EPK stuff. which you will nlo doubt see on things like Film 2007 and T4 in the UK. The other thing we're going to dig out of it are little anecdotal things to put on Get Your People and Youtube, Bebo, Film Factory etc etc.

I will definitely be straying across forgotten gems this afternoon as I work away, so I will try and find something to cut together for this afternoon. It will, unfortunately, have to be fairly innocuous so that it can slip under the 'approval' radar, but I'm desperate to have a shot at editing on this thing so there will be something later on today.

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