Media Diary

It's worth mentioning that in addition to the odd film I read the Guardian (and sometimes the Independent) about 4 times a week every week. I also check my feeds once a day, as shown by my usage statistics over the last month:

I check Twitter once a day, and occasionally play half an hour of video games.

editing on a Mac

Last-last week I had my first experience of editing on a Mac. I understand that most professional video editing and indeed most creative stuff (Photoshop, music editing) is done on Macs due to a generally held common belief that they're better at that sort of thing.
The program we used was iMovie. Originally I was confused at the lack of a timeline, and am still wondering how people edit video properly without one but we found a method of cutting/splitting/trimming clips so were able to make do. The film we turned out after 2 hours was (IMHO) pretty good with music and credits.

script for short film

Act 1 - Our hero Currage finds himself cowering under a bridge at night, here he recounts his story.

Currage: It was the government, always the government, we never knew they could turn on their own people but they did, and they were cruel. It started with the Muslims, scared of a terrorist attack the police had them all carry ID cards with tracking devices. [Cut to footage of Nick Griffin on Question Time]. People wouldn't have it, said it was unacceptable. That's how the trouble started.

Notes on allisonmedia.net's booklet on representation.

1. All media is 'mediated': it's been censored and changed in some way and everything we see is deliberate. When reality is mediated it becomes a representation of reality.

Technical analysis of 'The Pursuit of Happyness'

Following my first analysis of the pursuit of happyness, here's the second one based on the mise-en-scene and shot types used in the second half of the film. It has occurred to me that this is going to be little more than a summary of my notes, that's fine as long as it's well formatted.

Lights. Camera. Action.

This is a short film from RoosterTeeth, a company well known among the internet community for making execllent Halo machinima.

District 9 information

Studios:
WingNut Films
QED International
Key Creatives
Wintergreen Productions

Distribution:
Tri-Srar pictures