A couple of emails inquiring about the colour grade in the latest Storm chickflick unfortunately found their way out of my spam folder and into my inbox. Although it’s really a case of – as one certain person put it: “just make it blue, done” – there’s a tiny bit more to it… Not a [...]

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Here’s another making-of. This isn’t detailed at all but I wanted to show the editing process from the initial panoramic to the final piece. It uses a lot of similar techniques to the Fundamentalist picture – a making of for that can be viewed here.

Apart from rescuing baby unicorns being hunted down by trans-dimensional dinosaurs, my favourite thing to do in life is to watch behind-the-scenes videos (and Megastructures on National Geographic). I find that, although sometimes not very detailed at all, seeing making-of’s help you understand various aspects of a production – and this knowledge can then help [...]

I’ve received a number of emails asking about various aspects of the production since the video went live – some from students, some from other filmmakers and some from Spielberg. Some want to know which gear it was filmed on while others want to know how the ‘It-doesn’t-look-like-it-was-filmed-on-DSLR’s’ look was achieved. I’ll try to cover [...]