Kick-Ass – Designed for the big screen from day one?

Dave Lizewski isn’t the class jock, he isn’t the class geek either.  He’s just your average inbetweener.  He has good taste in movies and music, the class babe thinks he’s a dawk and he wishes his Dad could get over his mother’s death when he was fourteen.  His biggest escape in life is through comic books.  Then as exam pressure mounts he gets to thinking about what he wants to do with his life…

Is ‘30 Days of Night’ a smooth transition to celluloid?

Successful movie adaptations of novels are rare.  Directorial attempts to compete with a reader’s imagination more often than not fail for obvious reasons.  But what about adaptations of comics?

Before any movie goes into production it goes through the storyboarding process, and what better way to describe a comic than a series of unfolding events detailed in a storyboard.  So if a director followed each comic ‘panel’ exactly, would an adaptation to the big screen equal the original format?

In The Blink Of An Eye – Second Edition

The Conversation, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The English Patient – all cut by Walter Murch, the latter for which he was awarded both an Oscar and a Bafta for ‘Best Editing’ in 1996.

I’m not sure what I was expecting from ‘In The Blink Of An Eye.’  I guess since I edit news footage on a daily basis and dabble as an amateur filmmaker, pearls of wisdom from an editor who’s been doing it for more than forty years.

This is a book best suited to the already practicing editor (even if your experience is limited to Moviemaker or iMovie). 

Compositing in Contemporary Cinema

In this essay we’ll look at the different types of compositing used in contemporary cinema. By the end, hopefully like myself you’ll have a reasonable understanding of how different compositing effects have helped achieve the impossible in films such as ‘Star Wars, Superman’ and ‘Forrest Gump.’