I am currently reading ‘The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC / Lightroom 6 Book by Martin Evening and I have come to an interesting section regarding video editing in Lightroom. I use Lightroom to import all my photography including my video; but all editing has been automatically done through Final-Cut-Pro. I hade a small issue with … More White Balance for assignment V in Lightroom
As my course progresses I am now required to start writing screenplays as part of my assignment work and I thought it would be a good idea to find a book that covers this subject to help me. I have just read a good student text book called Screenwriting from the Basics Film-Making series, published … More Screenwriting
Basics Film-Making 03 – Directing Fiction by Robert Edgar-Hunt, published by AVA ISBN: 13: 978-2-940411-00-9 I found this book on Amazon as part of a series and I decided to buy them. I have read the series for photography for which there are ten and found them very good and useful to my courses and … More Basics Film-Making 03 – Directing Fiction
To create a logical visual narrative a method known as continuity-editing is employed. When editing was first introduced around the turn of the 20th century it was realised that a specific order of shots was needed to help the audience make sense of the story, this has become known as continuity-editing. The idea is simple … More Continuity Editing.
In this exercise I have looked at movies that have used camera angles to convey a sense of atmosphere or for / alter the meaning of a scene. Viewpoint – In the movie ‘The Conversation’ Directed, written and produced by Francis Ford-Coppola, the film begins with a wide-angle shot taken from a high vantage-point looking … More Camera Angles for Atmosphere and meaning
Now Write, Edited by Sherry Ellis, Published by Penguin. ISBN: 1-58542-522-2 I have just read, ‘Now Write’ edited by Sherry Ellis which is a book full of writing exercises by mostly American Authors/Lecturers for their students to help writers develop ideas, characters, dialogue, plot and pacing, setting and description and revising the manuscript for final-draft. … More Now Write
In this exercise, I am taking forward my thought from exercise 1 and 2 to further develop them. Taking the recent experience I had with my late mother-in-law, I want to explore these feelings that I am having. Perhaps it will appear as insensitive to some, being so close to her death; but for me … More Exercise 3 – Conceptual and thematic ideas
Blink Of An Eye by Walter Murch I begin my new course by reading this book first. No reason other than it was small enough to carry with me on my long weekend to Vienna. I found the book very interesting and I will not be able to watch a movie again without considering the … More In the Blink on an Eye by Walter Murch
Setting the Scene 