Film & Editing Blog - Behind the Scenes
22 Mei Film Review - Leeds International Film Festival
Friday 4th November 2011
Last night saw the screening of the 22 Mei (22nd of May) a film by Koen Mortier which is set in a shopping mall. A bomb explodes and the film follows the security guard Sam as he encounters the victims who blame him as he comes to terms with his own guilt. Here's my review:
I give it a 8.5/10 rating! It's an extremely intense film. The opening scene is an immersive continuous steadycam follow of the main character round his house for about 5 mins. The soundscaping is brilliant with deft use of empty space and while being deliberately confusing at times forcing the viewer to "think" it ties up all the plot strands into a stunning end sequence where we see people being blown up in slow motion! The end sequence is stunning and very poignant... nice work David on the special effects there!
The film was shown at the Hyde Park Picture House, a small traditional cinema which I really recommend! To find out more about this film visit the 22 Mei IMDB page.
Tags: Compositing, 22 Mei, Dutch Film |
Add a comment | Posted by Mark Zaretti at 15:17
BTS Timelapse of Post Production Process for Pete Swims Documentary
Wednesday 12th October 2011
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We've produced a behind the scenes mini documentary of the post production process of the making of the Pete Swims documentary. This includes editing, compositing, audio mixing, graphics, titles, animations and more. What we're looking at here is approx 24 hours of work time (over 3 days) condensed down to 10 mins. And as one client said... "you make it look effortless" but that's because this is what we do and we know how to use the cameras, software and hardware to get the end results. To see the Pete Swims Documentary go here. For those media geeks out there, the screen capture was done using iShowU HD Pro and editing in Adobe Premiere where it went through 2 rounds of time ramping up totaling 1,000,000% speed up. I then laid the audio vocal track over the top in one take using a Sennheiser K6+ME66 mic through the Marantz 661. For a bit of fun I made the opening animation in After Effects 5.5. Enjoy Tags: Audio, Pete Swims, Timelapse, BTS, Editing, Compositing Categories: Behind the Scenes, Documentary |
Add a comment | Posted by Mark Zaretti at 06:16
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