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One day to go…

One day to go…

By on January 11, 2008 in DVD, Premiere, Screenings

One day to go… And the film is still not complete! And BAFTA keep changing their minds about what we can and cannot do in terms of screening… And I am about to have a heart attack! The seminar is all coming together nicely though, and it looks like it will be an amazing day. [...]

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Final preparations and De-Spotting

Final preparations and De-Spotting

By on January 10, 2008 in Premiere, Training

The last few days have been a whirlwind of preparations for both the seminar and premiere of Gone Fishing on Saturday. Believe it or not, with only two days to go, the film is not yet complete! Right now, it is being de-spotted by Tom, at Midnight Transfer. We shot on Gone Fishing on film, [...]

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Mail out to contributors

Mail out to contributors

By on January 8, 2008 in Film Production, Premiere, Training

I have just mailed out to the Seminar and Premiere guests for Gone Fishing… We still have some places left so if you want to come, click here… You can read more about this course here too… Welcome to the Gone Fishing Premiere and Seminar, January 12th, 2007 at BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly (map and directions [...]

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More Creative Issues…

More Creative Issues…

By on January 7, 2008 in Grading, Post Production, Software

Six days to go…(blimey) And still the film is not complete! I spent this morning back at Midnight Transfer, completing the picture grade. Editor Eddie Hamilton came in to take a look and some very minor tweaks were made – one frame here, two frames there, shaved of shots – mainly because we could see [...]

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Six in, one out… 'Muxing' the soundtrack

Six in, one out… 'Muxing' the soundtrack

By on January 6, 2008 in DVD, Post Production, Sound

Now the final mix is complete, I wanted very much to listen to it in Dolby Digital at home, on my own 5.1 system, as well as start the process for making a DVD of the completed film once everything else is done. The only problem is that I left the final mix on Friday [...]

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The Final Mix Is Complete! And it sounds AMAZING!

The Final Mix Is Complete! And it sounds AMAZING!

By on January 4, 2008 in Post Production, Sound

In nearly peed in my pants with excitement as I heard the final mix for ‘Gone Fishing’ It is simply AWESOME! I have just spent the whole day with a team of audio wizards from Videosonics as all the final audio tracks are mixed into the single surround sound mix. Editor Eddie Hamilton popped in [...]

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The Final Sound Mix Begins!

The Final Sound Mix Begins!

By on January 3, 2008 in Post Production, Sound

Today was the first day of the final mix for the soundtrack to ‘Gone Fishing’. It took place at Videosonics, where on and off for the last six weeks, sound designer Bernard O’Reilly has been crafting a wonderful soundscape for the story. Today was the start of mixing all of those elements, along with the [...]

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The HD Rabbit Hole Goes Deeper…

The HD Rabbit Hole Goes Deeper…

By on January 1, 2008 in BluRay, DVD, HD in post

One of the reasons I went for HD DVD over BluRay was that I knew that it was much closer to DVD than BluRay is, on a purely technical and mastering level. After doing some poking around, I discovered something rather cool – it’s possible to master an HD DVD onto a normal DVD. This [...]

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