Recent content by micster

I agree with the exposition too

Hello! Here's some thoughts I have on it for you. 1. Hate the font choice, especially how plain it looks when over the opening shot. 2. The cut at :31 feels bad, because you're jump cutting to a wider version of the same shot essentially. 3. The lead up to car crash and the reveal is very...

Sorry for the bluntness, but this is an absolutely terrible trailer and the end product doesn't look much better. The trailer needs to be at LEAST half the length that it currently is. There needs to be some music behind it. You start out with a shot where we cant see who's speaking and then the...

https://vimeo.com/279836701 ONE STEP is the Japanese short film I directed last year, which has been screened in 10 film festivals since August 2018 and scored three award noms. It's now available for free on Amazon Prime! Would love to hear what people think about it. UK -...

386 pages. For a script based on an existing copyrighted property. Wow.

I mean it's not about people stealing them, but a lot of festivals won't allow for films that are already publicly available. There's no reason passwords on Vimeo shouldnt be working, you need to give more details on what happened. You cannot make password protected videos on Youtube, but you...

If you burned the subtitles hardcoded onto the file, then you're out of luck

I can’t believe someone let their name be in the credits as a sound mixer on this, or that they were happy enough with the job they did of it. There’s some nice shots in this. There’s a weird short pan at 29 seconds followed by a full one a few seconds later. I get this was a tripod being...

Hello! I live in Japan - however my Japanese is nowhere near good enough to translate scripts. However I did write and direct a Japanese short film via a translator, so here's my advice for you. Write it in English and go through the same amount of redrafts as you would with a normal project...

That is a very, very wrong statement.

The blur looks terrible. The second shot comes in at the wrong time, so the door suddenly pops further in. You need to do proper editing to make this work. You need to mask around the door and animate keyframes, so that the door frame is consistent. Here's an example from a film of mine...

Super busy week. Got back from Bangkok on Sunday, where I was at the International Thai Film Festival. Super lovely event and I was really happy with the reaction I got Then last night I finally had the cast screening. So nice to see everyone again and see their reactions to the finished...

Need to get to grips with making DCPs, as an American festival that I'll be screening at wants one from me. Flying Thursday night to Bangkok for festival. Super excited about it.

Looks like I just got my third festival screening confirmed! Can't attend as it's a festival in the US, but it's exciting all the same.

Flights booked to Bangkok for the International Thai Film Festival, where my film will be screening. They've revealed the full list now and I can't wait to see so many amazing looking films. The special cast and fan Tokyo screening was announced and subsequently sold out, which is amazing. So...