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The majority of my work isn't online at the moment, but there're some pieces on my Vimeo and YouTube pages. Select work / incomplete projects are listed under 'Projects' on my website.

I have recently entered a Ray Harryhausen storyboard / animation competition. The competition (like so much in the art / media world) starts off as a popularity contest before the actual judging can begin and I'd really like your help to get my entry into the final stages. My storyboard can be...

Hullo there, My co-director, Benjamin and I have entered our short conceptual film, an action thriller, to the Openfilm 'Get it Made' contest. This relies on community voting to pick 6 top films, then Robert Duvall, James Caan and his son Scott and Mark Rydell choose a winner to be given...

Personally, I find brainstorming with someone helps keep the ideas flowing. It can stagnate easily if you work on it alone and isolate and end up getting very frustrating. Just talk about it to people (whose opinions you respect), toss ideas around and keep a notebook or dictaphone with you at...

I really liked Enterprise. I saw it as very separate from the rest of the Star Trek series and I thought it worked very well as an origin story. Perhaps I actually liked it because of Scott Bakula. I loved Quantum Leap - a nutritious part of my childhood diet. It saddens me to see them both on...

Yeah, the T2i video mode is excellent - comparable with the 7D (according to some, identical) but at what, half the price? Great! I opted for the 7D personally. ALSO: http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?t=23239

I hope they don't mess that one up! Mass Effect has a great plot. It even comes with its own 'controversial' sex scene a la Splice.

YES! Amazing in every way (apart from the level cap at 20). GASP! Really? I'll have to find out more about this. There's also a Dead Space movie in the works (a feature length, live action, not another anime short, which was also well-received).

I have a friend with this, and they like its lightweightedness and general ergonomics. However, the camera only shoots full HD (1080p) at 20FPS, which is fairly useless. It shoots 720p at 30p, which is fine enough, but with this and a lack of an external mic output, my friend was ultimately...

YES! Also, Firefly, Quantum Leap, Sliders... I enjoyed Farscape, but missed a few episodes in the first / second season and everything plot-wise seemed to have changed. Babylon 5 was good, too.

I beg to differ. Old-school arcade and a large amount of games made for consoles are indeed button-mashing games. But the games that have been converted into films (despite their awfulness) have had a lot more depth and have been storyline-driven. Plot is becoming much more important in games...

I wrote an article about the conversion of games to films and vice-versa a while ago - I found very few successful translations across the media gap. I think what Wombat says is probably true - they are so similar that you lose the interactivity of the game character and the placement of 'self'...

My lecturer at Uni once said using 'we see' or 'we hear' shouldn't be used for this very reason. Ideally, the reader of the script should get absorbed into the story. If it breaks them away from the 'suspension of disbelief', they might lose interest and end up scrapping it. I have no experience...

You have some great VFX but when the music kicks in, the mood changes so suddenly to something that I had less emotional interest in. More like a superhero film, perhaps. I'm curious about the full project.

Your fairly aggressive tone hints that my response will perhaps make this descend into a flame-match which couldn't be further from what I want. However, I will express my opinion about film as art - I consider a majority of film, art. I studied it fairly extensively at University and continue...

Thanks for your detailed breakdown. By 'all over the place' I assume you're referring to the many different shots for the chase sequence? The main reasons for these are that they were partially a stylistic decision, partially to accommodate our lack of equipment or budget. Having no steadicam or...

No, no. Please don't apologise - your critical feedback is very useful. Besides, the whole point of film is for people to have different feelings and reactions. It seems a common point is that a lot of our shots need some trimming. We will certainly take this on board for the next film.

It's great to get such analytical feedback! Thank you! On to specifics: You can see from other shots in the film that we can and do follow focus, so it was a deliberate design decision. Why do you describe this as "too DSLR" though? I've seen this in plenty of feature-lengths; Hollywood and...

Hello, all. I've been working on a short film for the past 6 months (filming from January to March, post-production and editing March to June), co-directing with a friend, and it has now been released! You can watch it on my website, DeepSea Engine as well as read some extra info about it. Or...

Hello all, Roamed the forum for a while, but finally decided to join. Looking forward to integrating with the community here and getting / sharing tips and whatnot, as well as seeing all of your brilliant, original projects. I'm working on a number of projects myself, which I hope to get...