Every low-budget shoot has one. The take where the performance is perfect and the boom dips into the top of frame for two seconds. A runner who wanders across the back of the wide. A brand on someone’s T-shirt that you can’t get permission for. Going back isn’t an option, so the shot either stays […]
Call sheets are almost locked. You still need a previs board the DP can mark up, and a temp cut so the editor can feel the rhythm before day one. Someone suggests “just generate it.” Five model subscriptions later, you have tabs open, a credit card balance you cannot explain, and no continuous take that […]
A subtitle file can pass every technical check and still lose the viewer. Timecodes, encoding, naming and format all matter, and Raindance’s recent post “The Subtitle File Checks to Run Before a Festival Submission” covers that list well. Then a line of dialogue leaves the screen before anyone has finished reading it, and a programmer […]
A blockchain is a shared digital ledger. It stores records across a network of computers. In film, blockchain companies build systems to track film rights, manage contracts, and record payments. Filmmakers can struggle to raise funds and track film earnings. They may also struggle to stop others from copying or stealing their work. Reaching audiences […]
A lot of filmmakers pay for their own projects with someone else’s footage: a brand video, a wedding, a YouTube channel that needs a weekly edit. Client work keeps you cutting every day and gets paid. It also has a way of eating the time and energy that were meant for your film. I started […]
“Subtitles” used to mean one file. Now a festival or distributor may ask for closed captions, open captions, SDH and audio description as well, each a separate deliverable. Here is what each one is, who asks for it, and a checklist you can work through before your film goes out. You lock picture, finish the […]
“Slow motion can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, revealing layers of meaning.” Stanley Kubrick I’m a specialist slow-motion cinematographer and own a Freefly Ember 5K, a camera designed specifically for capturing super slow-motion footage for film and television. It can shoot at up to 1,000fps in 4K, with even higher frame rates available in […]
I’m a child of the 80s. I grew up watching Tom and Jerry reruns, and later became massively inspired by Aardman, particularly Wallace and Gromit’s A Grand Day Out. At home, we had the mighty Acorn Electron computer with all 16kb of power, complete with a cassette tape player for saving code. I was a […]
Most indie post-production schedules are built around work: assembly, rough cut, fine cut, picture lock, sound, colour, deliverables. Very few are built around decisions. Yet that is where the weeks disappear. The cut that sat with an executive producer for ten days. The composer waiting on a temp-music conversation nobody had. The “locked” picture that […]
Subtitles are usually the last job on an indie film, and the easiest place for a good screener to fall apart. Here are eight checks you can run yourself before you hit upload. Picture the scene. The festival deadline is midnight, the grade is locked, the mix is done, and you are only now exporting […]
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