Giveaway: Free Year to SneakOn.com
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Social Media on March 4, 2010
I’ve blogged about SneakOn.com before and I think it is very cool. The launch is today and they are showing it off at the STN Convention at the Disneyland Hotel. Keep in mind they are still in BETA mode a bit as more features will be coming in the days and weeks to come. This is kind of a mentoring opportunity tonight, but the site has access to thousands of sound effects and music tracks so it is well worth it.
I am giving away a free year to SneakOn.com under the following conditions;
1. You can be on the “lot” tonight between 8-10 PST.
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Q&A with a “LOST” editor; Lance Stubblefield
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging on March 3, 2010
We will be doing another Q&A, similar to the one we just did with Daryl Baskin last week, but this time with Lance Stubblefield. Lance has worked on LOST since the first season, starting as an assistant editor and has made the jump to editor for an episode last season and a few times this season. He has also worked in the trailer editing side of the business as well as assisting on the popular show Arli$$.
I have been able to visit Lance a few times in the past couple years and it has been very interesting to hear about the workflow he has been involved in. Now they are all tapeless, but the first time I visited him (during Season 4) they had tons of DVCAM tapes against the back wall for the flashbacks to season 1-3 as they showed up in the new scripts.
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From the Archive:
Growing Up Hockey
Posted by Bryce Randle in Documentary on January 7, 2010
I was the associate producer and editor of a new documentary, Growing Up Hockey. Garrett Smith, our awesome motion graphics artist, gave it a great look. Our premier sound designer and sweetener Nathan Hoffman touched it up as well.
The documentary goes through several factors in the hockey world such as getting over criticism from coaches, parents and others, making the cut, getting to the next level, adding mental toughness and more. It features interviews from Olympians, NHL All Stars, Stanley Cup Champions, NCAA championship coaches, NHL psychologists and NHL broadcasters.
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Where to upload stock video and photos?
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging on March 2, 2010
I have a couple video clips I took in Miami from the 31st floor on South Beach with the EX1. Where should I upload them to sell as stock? I have looked at iStockPhoto, as I am a customer there. I would like to know what everyone else has looked to as another option.
They aren’t the best shots in the world, but some are fairly cool. It was more of an experiment to blog about the experience of being a DP, taking some shots and trying to upload them. Thougths?
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Playing DP and Good Tips in the realm of the Digital SLR
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Post Production Workflow on March 1, 2010
Miami, Florida sunrise. Taken with a simple portrait lens.
I haven’t jumped on the bandwagon enough to buy my own Canon 7D or any other DSLR with HD video capabilities. I have edited several short pieces for a client using the 7D workflow and while I have to say that the video looks amazing, that isn’t what this post is about.
Nancy (my wife/business owner) and I went to Miami, Florida to do a shoot with her taking hold of still photography and I taking an EX1 and playing DP for a few days. It’s always a great experience to get out of the edit bay and shoot something yourself. It not only gives you a reason to get out of the solitary confinement that is your edit space, but you can put into practice the best techniques you have learned from just watching through footage (all my clients love the rack focus… about 90% of the time). I get a bit more respect for the DP while out shooting because I can never get something to look exactly how I want it to when it comes in from certain DP friends of mine.
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Replacing Clips in FCP
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging on February 25, 2010
You know what I hate? I hate when I select a clip in FCP and overwrite it in the sequence with the clip from the viewer, it doesn’t keep the transitions like Avid does. Just sayin’.
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The Editor Answers: Daryl Baskin. Star Trek TNG Editor.
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Narrative, Post Production Workflow on February 25, 2010
Here are my answers to the 5 questions that I read on PostFifthPictures.com. If there are more, just let me know. In some cases I should call the VIZ FX team…but I will give this a shot, first. If you have any questions about my answers, please let me know.
Thanks,
Daryl
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Last Chance for Question for Star Trek TNG Editor Daryl Baskin
Posted by Bryce Randle in Narrative on February 23, 2010
Today is the last day we will be accepting questions for our Q&A with Daryl Baskin. If you have any other questions, please comment on this post, Q&A Prep With Star Trek: TNG Editor Daryl Baskin.
Check out his IMDB profile to check out his work.
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A Look Back: Controlled Toggle Perspective
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Narrative on February 22, 2010
While attending my last semester at BYU Media Arts/Film school in 2006, I wrote this paper as a part of the Film Theory class. On our final test we had to remember 30 of the 32 class member presentations. Mine was not on the final due, what I believe, to the goofy title and how easy it was to remember to connect to the summary. This may be a “no duh” type thing, but guess what movie I used as a prime example? Yeah, Click. Now that’s called guts.
Summary Statement: Drawing from the ideas of Eisenstein and Pudovkin on film editing creating emotion for propaganda and Browne’s ideas of the director making a specific moral order, controlled toggle perspective involves the meaning from specific notions and clues given to the viewer by the author. The filmmaker uses editing to draw the audience into the deeper meaning and intended message of the film. A prime example is crossing line and frequency of cutting in films. The director has a vision in mind to use editing as an object to allow the viewer to emulate the position of their protagonist by throwing them into a world of frequent cuts or by playing with the reversed perspective normally not in invisible editing. In other situations crossing the line, crossing the axis primarily established in the first shot of a scene, can be used to create deeper meaning in a film or add to the moral order, thus giving it more emotion and advertising the message.
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Duplicate Frames Save the Day
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Documentary on February 19, 2010
I was in the middle of getting a cut ready for a client and realized I had not implemented the last feedback she had given me. Oops.
I had sent her 8 min worth of selects and takes I liked and she sent me notes on the ones she didn’t really like. Forgetting about those notes, I felt like I was in the rhythm of things and made another cut. I sent it on to her and realized while sending the e-mail I had not made those changes. Oops again.
I quickly wrote her an e-mail reminding her that I would fix those cuts quickly, taking them out asap. I did it with duplicate frames on Final Cut Pro.
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Q&A Prep With Star Trek: TNG Editor Daryl Baskin
Posted by Bryce Randle in Narrative on February 18, 2010
We will be doing a Q&A with Daryl Baskin, whose work can be seen on Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series. Daryl is awesome and is open to questions from all. Send your questions asap via the comment board and we will ask as many as we can. We will post the interview some time next week.
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UPDATE: February 25, 2010
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