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Prepping the premiere!

Prepping the premiere!

By on December 30, 2007 in Grading, Premiere, Sound, Training

The last couple of days have been spent organising the premiere. The tickets have arrived from the printers, and they look great! Steph Wrate, who also worked in the production team on ‘Gone Fishing’, has been calling everyone to make sure they are coming. I have been working primarily on the Masterclass that will be [...]

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Reflecting on the Picture Grade

Reflecting on the Picture Grade

By on December 26, 2007 in Contributors, Grading, Post Production

Now I am more recovered from my ‘Xmas bashing’ food poisoning bout, I have been reflecting on the final grade for ‘Gone Fishing’. I have been amazed at how much effort and high-end technology goes into these final stages, and I am very pleased that I made every effort during script development to ensure that [...]

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Picture Grading… The Final Day…

Picture Grading… The Final Day…

By on December 25, 2007 in Grading, Post Production

We completed the grade on Friday, but it’s got to today to update the blog, Christmas day (!), as I left the grade and immediately fell ill with food poisoning! So no celebrations for me this year. The grade went well. Extremely well in fact. Everyone is delighted with the outcome. However, there are  few [...]

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Grading – The First Day…

Grading – The First Day…

By on December 21, 2007 in Grading, Post Production, SFX

I spent today at Midnight Transfer, with senior colourist John Claude, and ‘Gone Fishing’ DP, Vernon Layton, conforming the movie and colour grading it. During the day we had a few visitors, other director and producer friends of mine, and some of the GF contributors – and everyone commented ‘Wow! It looks amazing!’ The first [...]

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Bringing it all together…

Bringing it all together…

By on December 20, 2007 in HD in post, Post Production, SFX

I have been frantically dashing around, making sure everything is ready for the final picture conform / picture grade tomorrow at Midnight Transfer. Thankfully I have been pretty organised through the whole process, so while it’s a long haul, so far there have been very few unforeseen hitches. Let’s hope it stays that way. (pictured [...]

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Matte Painting Complete!

Matte Painting Complete!

By on December 19, 2007 in Post Production, SFX

Blimey! I really mean it. Blimey! How amazing is that!? Top right is the original image, shot by second unit director Simon Cox, and the image below is the final matte painting, Audrius Urbonavicius did for us, and comped into place. Above the new mountains are some whispy clouds which will be animated to enhance [...]

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Premiere Tickets Off To The Printers!

Premiere Tickets Off To The Printers!

By on December 18, 2007 in Credits, Post Production, Premiere, Software

I have just sent off the premiere invites to the printers, and hope to get them back before Xmas. We have all sorts of stuff planned for the evening, and I just hope we have the time and energy to get it all done! It’s staggering how much is involved. All the technical completion elements [...]

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Planning the Premiere

Planning the Premiere

By on December 17, 2007 in Premiere

Today I am working on the premiere (set for Jan 12th 2008). I just made a call to BAFTA to check everything is OK – and they have, believe it or not, double booked the theatre! It’s a good job my spidey senses were tingling on this, and I rang to double, sorry no, triple [...]

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HD DVD acid test

HD DVD acid test

By on December 15, 2007 in BluRay, HD in post

A few days ago I took delivery of a Toshiba HD-EP30 HD DVD player so that I can get my head around HD in the home. I have a projector that I use on my courses, and it’s quite new, claiming to handle up to 1080P full HD. The projector, a Panasonic one, was quite [...]

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The Voice of Goliath

The Voice of Goliath

By on December 13, 2007 in Post Production, Sound

I just spent a very enjoyable morning with sound designer Bernard O’Reilly at Videosonics. We booked the final mix (where everything is mixed into a single soundtrack) in on Jan 3rd and 4th, so it’s all guns blazing between now and then to track lay all the sound effects. It’s such a pleasure to work [...]

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Festival Submissions Begin

Festival Submissions Begin

By on December 12, 2007 in Festivals

We are close to completion on Gone Fishing now, and so have begun thinking about our World Premiere festival – this is where we will first publicly screen the film. We are seeking one of the major festivals and we are starting out by submitting to Tribeca. We can only supply an offline cut with [...]

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Gone Fishing enters final mastering stages

Gone Fishing enters final mastering stages

By on December 11, 2007 in Negative, Post Production

So the final mastering stages of ‘Gone Fishing’ have begun. I popped into the Film Clinic today to have a look at some of the problems we have with a few rolls of the film negative. When it was processed, some of the chemicals turned out to be a little dirty, and all manner of [...]

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BluRay or HD DVD – Damned if you do, Damned if you don't…

BluRay or HD DVD – Damned if you do, Damned if you don't…

By on December 10, 2007 in BluRay, Negative

I have received a load of mails from people regarding BluRay and HD DVD. Thanks so much for that. Here are two pertinent comments… James McGough wrote…I read on your blog you're thinking about which HD format to support. I've been doing the same recently and decided to back Blu-ray so I thought I'd share [...]

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Gone Fishing Mastering – BluRay or HD DVD?

Gone Fishing Mastering – BluRay or HD DVD?

By on December 8, 2007 in BluRay

Sorry for my recent absence – I had a minor and scheduled operation – nothing serious, and that knocked me out of circulation for a while. Anyway… One of the things I decided I would do with ‘Gone Fishing’ is to go through the whole consumer HD process – that is, as well as making [...]

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Sam Jackson’s Secret Video Diary

Sam Jackson’s Secret Video Diary

By on December 1, 2007 in Film Production

My friend, writer and film maker, Guy Rowland, has worked on several projects with me – including a script polish on ‘Gone Fishing’. He made his first movie a few years back, and it’s an extraordinary tale of what happened… I add it here as Guy is doing a pioneering release on Dec 28th… Here’s [...]

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