When director Nick Moore approached me to be the editor of his latest and highly stylistic music video, I was ecstatic. The two of us, along with cinematographer Brian Loewe, developed a style that was uniquely “rough around the edges”, giving the audience an overwhelming feeling of being “a little too drunk”. We pulled back from the polish of our usual work together to lean into fast editing, warped pictures and match cutting.
For several weeks leading up to the shoot the director and I tested several styles for our vocals potion of the clip. We decided to emulate a digital version of a SnorriCam. We achieved this through careful camera tracking designed to allow us to manually track the singers face through a tool named Mocha. This along with some edge warping and displacement mapping created a unique and dizzying vibe to those clips (along with lots of intercutting). The whole crew loves this clip and we think this music video is a signpost of more creative experimentation in the future.
Inferno Nominated for an Australian Screen Editors Award
This year I was honored to be nominated for a 2020 Australian Screen Editors Guild National Ellie Award for my work editing Inferno.
I’ve always been extremely proud of the edit we carefully crafted for this short. My director Katherine Chediak Putnam and I worked some very late nights to ensure this short jumped off the screen in every aspect, particularly with elements of stylistic cutting around the many dream sequences. Balanced out with some heavier dramatic scenes based further in reality. The horror genre has been a passion of mine for a while now and it is a delight to work in as an editor.
It was an honor to have Inferno selected from the large number of films edited this year. A big thanks goes out to the entire post team behind the film, I am a strong believer that a production is only as strong as its weakest part, and this film had a very strong team. I look forward to seeing Inferno tour a more international stage as it continues its festival run in the future.
Telly Award for Best Editing in the Online Space
For the last number of years, I have worked closely with the team at Tourism Media to produce, edit and colour grade for the largest travel YouTube channel, Expedia. While editing these videos gives me all sorts of envious wanderlust, the team and I are always trying to push the level of quality to give our audience the most jaw-dropping beauty and informative experiences.
It was awesome to see that the agency threw some of our videos from the Travel Guide series into the ring for the 41st annual Telly Awards. It was even greater to see a number of them picked up bronze, silver and gold awards, including one for Best Editing for our energetic video on Barcelona.
The Telly Awards have been honoring excellence across all screen media since 1979. This year alone receiving 12,000 entries across 5 continents. The event works closely with NABshow, ProductionHUB and IFP, to name a few. Previous winners of the Telly Awards include CBS Interactive, HBO, Comcast, Conde Nast, Team Coco and many many others.
Stray's Official Selection at Nevermore Film Festival
As a freelance Brisbane based editor it is always amazing to see stories that I’ve created get nominated for awards and appear at international festivals. Stray has been making big waves for a short film born from the passion of a number of local Brisbane based filmmakers and with the amazing support of Screen Queensland.
Recently the production saw ‘official selection’ at the 20th Nevermore Film Festival in North Carolina. It’s a fantastic start to 2019 and we only hope these stories and the ones we make in the future continue to be seen and make waves at more screenings in the future.
The Nevermore Film Festival will be highlighting dark fantasy, sci-fi and horror shorts and features from around the world from March 8th to 10th.
Poster Boy Complete! Trailer Launches Online.
With the post production now wrapped on Poster Boy, the production and marketing team at Sway Pictures are hard at work sending off screeners to festivals around the globe. The 25min short has been a pet project for much of the team over these last few months and we are stoked to see it go out into the world.
During the 3 month part-time vision edit, the director and I saw the project develop through its infancy and into a tight and creative cut that mirrors the story themes and delivers audiences directly into the world. Working closely with this creative team has been an amazing experience and we all hope the film lands well.
With the completion of the film, we now also have a fresh new trailer to go along with it. While we cannot link the full film yet the trailer is out now and linked below.
Like Velociraptors Music Video Wins Gold at ACS Awards
A long while ago I was asked to come onboard a very awesome music video project as editor and visual effects artist for Brisbane based band The Con and the Liar.
The music video was headed by a very talented team with Harrison Norris directing and Brian Loewe as cinematographer.
The clip was was very awesome with a string of wire stunts and pyrotechnics, mixed in with an array of wild visual effects. The video was all wrapped nicely into a toungue-in-check stylistic atmosphere which gave it a great overall tone.
the clip is due to release soon, however it has already started making waves with its gold award victory for cinematographer Brian Loewe taking home the highest achievement from the Australian Cinematography Society.
So lookout for the video hitting the web in the near future!
The Bus Knight Nominated for St Kilda Film Festival | Short Film Update
In early 2015 I had the pleasure to work with some talented creative minds to create a short film called The Bus Knight. I was on board as the Editor and Visual Effects artist for the project and after several months of collaborating with the team it is fantastic to see the project nominated as official selection for the St Kilda Film Festival 2016.
The movie was created by Tony Walsh of Stranger Films and based off a viral Facebook post from actor Angus Robinson. The post details a mysterious stranger who saves an inner-city bus ride from the tyranny of a bogan hijacking.
The project was then partially funded via a crowdsourcing campaign and the Raw Nerve program (A Screen Queensland Initiative). The Bus Knight was all produced in Brisbane and went on to take awards at both the ScreenIt Film Festival and the Capricornia Film Festival in 2015.
Check out the trailer below: