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Jan
07
A Rough Cut is a Beautiful Thing
Ruth and I have been editing two projects together lately. One is for Simply Charlotte Mason, and the other is A House for Marge.
It’s always exciting when you get to the rough cut stage. At that point, though the film is still aways from finished, you can sit down and watch the whole thing straight through!
As of last night, we’re at that point on both. Whoopee!
It’s momentous enough that I thought it warranted a blog post. 😀
Dec
23
Just for Fun: The Timeline
Merry Christmas to all! Here’s a screenshot of the timeline of the most recent cut of A House for Marge.
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Dec
14
A Still from A House for Marge
Here’s a yet-to-be-color-corrected frame from A House for Marge!
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This frame illustrates how the action in the script can change when you see how it plays while shooting.
The script calls for Anna and Benjamin to walk together while holding hands. Once we got set up, we realized how difficult it was to get Benjamin (short) and Anna (tall) framed well in a moving shot. So somebody came up with the idea of a piggyback ride and you see the final result.
Dec
11
Check Out This Review of the New Narnia Movie
I wrote a review comparing the book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader to the movie on Incredibooks.com.
Now in that review, I didn’t go into specifics on what I thought of the technical filmmaking aspects. I don’t really have much to comment on, except to say that the movie is gorgeous, though I did think that there was a bit too much shaky camera for my taste. It might have helped if the theater had been projecting the film correctly.
I really enjoyed the way the few fight scenes were shot. I had been disappointed with how far removed the camera is from the action in the first two movies. For this film, the camera gets right into the action and moves around, giving the exciting parts a lot more energy.
The script is really the weakest part. It suffers from a bit too much telling and not enough showing, as did the previous two Narnia films. Hopefully, The Silver Chair will be made and won’t make the same mistakes.