work expereince...

Right now I'm doing some work over in Teddington which is fab. It's a documentary commissoned, orginally by the BBC and now by channel 4 about a film by directed by Kenneth Brannagh. The film is an adaption of the opera, Magic Flute, that's been adapted by Kenneth and Stephen Fry. So basically Kenneth Branagh is directing a film which will be out in cinemas sometime next year whereby he's taken a bunch of opera singers and has been getting them to act in this film. The documentary follows the process of this. It's been an incredible few days for so many reasons.

I'm involved in postproduction. Which, to cut a long story short, before the editing to make the documentary happens, all the films (95 of them!!) have to be digitised and also each clip/time break labelled and transcripted. It's my job to set the films digitising through the mac and then transcript EVERYTHINg that happens. Its incredbly fascinating.

Fascnating to be involved in the process of making a documentary.
Fascinating to see so much footage about the making of a film. Like one 5 minute scene taking ALL day to get right! And with all it's different angles being shot etc.
Fascinating to see a film being merged with opera.
Fascinating to begin to see the art and beauty and technicality in opera
Fascinating to transcript all the interviews with Kenneth and the actors/actresses and see what they have to say, the depth of their understanding of what's happening and the themes and meanings etc. It's fab.
Fascinating to think through the possibilites of media that's responisble and ethical and the whole idea of making art and about art and culture really interests me.

It's all just very cool.