Bow to the Audience
My favourite living musician and recording artist is Prince. I’ll allow that if you don’t like him, you probably really don’t like him. That’s because he’s really good. Not a…
Final Cut Pro X
So… Final Cut Pro X, eh? Lot of chatter about it. Lot of controversy. I bought it the day it came out expecting to jump in and find an editing…
Good sport
Just realised that the edit which prompted the previous post will be the last sport programme I do for a very long time.
Susan Boyle & the Twitter patter of tiny tweets
A few weeks ago I spent a long weekend editing a programme for STV called, Susan Boyle: Two Weeks That Shook Show Business. I’ll assume you know who Susan Boyle…
Foreign media: a memoir of putting video into print.
I’m glad to be back in the temporary employ of MNE Media, an independent producer of Gaelic-language tele. The show I’m working on is called Cuide Ri Cathy (Company with…
Pastures of Plenty
There are always, it seems, several edit jobs on at once. The idea of seeing one to finality before embarking on another is naïve, at least when you own a…
3D editing: first sensible comment
John Scalzi commented on his blog last Sunday that the problem with the editing in a 3D film like Coraline is that the eye must refocus. I’m dying to see…
My TV ads for Glasgow and Edinburgh radio stations
I recently edited a commercial apiece for Clyde One and Forth One, Glasgow and Edinburgh radio stations respectively. Like the Leprosy ads, I can’t see the ads on the stations’…
My TV spots for ‘Get Randomised’
I recently edited some TV spots for a campaign to raise awareness of randmised clinical trials. They were shown across Scotland with each region having its own version. Here they…