Best Editing and/or Best Picture
I compiled a list of every Best Editing Academy Award winner by year along side the Best Picture winners to see 1) Just a list of all the Best Editing winners all lined up, and 2) Which films won Best Editing and NOT Best Picture as well. I plan to watch them all or at least start with those that won Best Editing and not Best Picture first. I doubt I’ll go all the way down to the 1934 winner, but maybe just as far as the award seems currently relevant. That’s probably somewhere around the early 60s with some exceptions lower. Mary Poppins seems very modern to me.
So, in case anyone else is interested in a list laid out and easy to reference, here it is. (There is also a column, if Best Picture and Best Editor winners don’t match, for whether the Best Picture winner was even nominated for Best Editing).
Stereoscopic 3D – Ready to Shoot!
A few epiphanies and a trip to Lowe’s and I’m ready to go. I ended up using a couple of 3 inch-long 1/4″ bolts, and a bunch of washers and nuts. The flat metal plate is actually the plate that sits on your door frame that the knob latches onto. It’s called a “lip strike” and works really well in this sort of application. The screw holes are just the right size (1/4″ at least) and are equidistant from the larger hole in the middle. Another hex nut and a bigass fender washer (1/2″ hole, 1.5″ diameter) secures the whole thing to the mounting plate for my Fig Rig. Test videos coming soon! Now I need to get some Anaglyphic glasses so I can start figuring out how to prep the video for 3D-ization. I’ll have to make a trip to a party store or something tomorrow.
My brother Brad holding the Fig Rig with the semi-finished product mounted on it.
Close-up of the mounts. A fender washer holds the whole thing onto the plate of the Fig.
Mounted onto the Fig Rig
3D part 2
To buy:
- 2 small protractors
- 1 small ruler
- A couple of tripod mount-sized screws + washers, etc
- Some sort of apparatus that will allow me to screw on both cameras and slide them along the center
- A handle or pistol grip to mount in the center of the camera apparatus. Additionally, this should be able to mount to a tripod/the Fig Rig.
Alan MacDougall (Jake from ‘Koala Wars!‘) is writing a quick app that will let me calculate parallax based on the angles and distance of the two cameras via my iPhone. This will allow me to naturally mimic the human eye (Avatar-style) to make the 3D images less exaggerated and hopefully more accurate.
Experiments in the Third Dimension…
Science! Anyway, I was recently doing an inventory of our gear and realized that with the 5D2′s shoot-video-in-disguise and the HF100′s small size, I didn’t have any real use for our two RCA Small Wonder cameras. We bought them as quick little things to mess around with anyway (and they were new enough at the time that Kim got interviewed in the Wall Street Journal!) so now that they’re just sitting in a box, I looked for a fun experiment that would put them both to use. The answer: Stereoscopic 3D! Read the rest of this entry »
Behind the Scenes – Fantastic Mr. Fox round-up
If you’re like me, then you’ve been excitedly following the behind the scenes links to all things Fantastic Mr. Fox! And IF you’re like me, then you go back to behind the scenes clips and articles later for reference because they’re so dang informative and interesting.
But with SO MANY clips, links, and articles, how can one keep track of everything? By reading this article where I have organized and linked everything in one concise place! (or as many as I could find since before this article is posted!)
Pre-Pro
This December we are going to be shooting a new web show, moving out of the Upper East Side down into Brooklyn.
We’re working on the scripts now, and might be making a few posts detailing the production but at the moment I can only say this much
Non-Linear Editing Systems: My Bloggiest Post
I started to write one of these articles comparing NLEs myself, but this Editor David Maurer does a much better job!
http://www.flickgym.com/2009/10/top-ten-reasons-avid-beats-final-cut-pro.html
I’m a recent convert, though not from Final Cut to Avid specifically. And not because it was a hard decision to make, but because I never had access to Avid. Previously I regularly flip-flopped between Adobe Premiere and Final Cut and quite frankly I preferred Premiere to Fina Cut for the pure usability. I hadn’t gotten too complicated with multi-cams shoots or working offline before moving to New York because all my projects were usually small, one camera shoot, indie short films. Maybe I would have had choosen FCP over Premiere for those features if I ever needed to try them out. I don’t even know how Premiere handles multicam, if at all still. But as soon as I started to work with Avid, I realized how much more robust the program is. And THEN to go back to FCP at some post houses and try and do some of the same things Avid does, it was like trying to push a car up a mountain. You can sometimes do it, but it’s real damn difficult. Now I’m a full Avid convert.
20th Century Burlap
Recently I discovered something eerie that seems to directly refer to our first short and first 48 hour film fest submission “The Body in Burlap,” whose logline since the beginning has been: “An unassuming gardener is asked to dispose of a mysterious girl.”
Behind the Scenes: Night at the Museum
This may be one of the most interesting behind the scenes videos for the making of a film I’ve seen. Lots of good descriptions of roles, lots of good rundowns of process, and good footage of the process as a whole. You get to see it rather than just talking heads describing it. Plus when people explain their job on set WHILE on set, rather than a year later as they sit on a couch with a video camera on them, it’s much more accurate and informative.
Cool stuff! I wish a video like this was available when I was first trying to figure this all out in middle school!
