Shiny New MacBook Pro

I just had my shiny new MacBook Pro this morning, my, she's pretty. Shiny, too.

 

I've just finished installing FinalCut Pro HD, and I'm about to start playing with all her goodies!

Katch gig in the edit

I've been working over at Frozen Moon again, editing the half-hour Katch gig, filmed at the end of the Wrexham Science Festival. Its going to be a half-hour program, but also be chopped up into the individual songs, and its looking good

Explosive New Films

I've been experimenting with black and green screened explosions, courtesy of www.detonationfilms.com and have been having great fun. I've already made some drawing boards in uni explode, and my friend's head has exploded as well. You can check them out on my YouTube page: www.youtube.com/filmsbynick

 

Right, what's next to explode?

My New Website

I took the plunge, and now have a brand spanking new website. There's nothing on it yet, but there will be very soon!

 

its at www.filmsbynick.com

Robert Murat press attention

I saw on the news last night that Robert Murat seems to be almost declared guilty by the press regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

 

When I turned on the TV last night, the first thing I saw was loads of people milling around, with members of the press saying how 'suspiciously' Robert has been acting. Is it not possible that this guy actually WAS trying to help out the police, and why do people get accused of something totally out of character when they try to do the right thing.

 

I need to point out that I do not know this man at all, but there's no need to jump all over him, especially as there is no solid proof he had anything to do with the little girls disappearance. It really does annoy me that the press over there have jumped all over this poor guy because they have nothing new to report, Don't hang the guy on a suspicion people!

 

I hope that girl is found safe, and lets not all jump on the bandwagon against Robert. There's every possibility that he's done nothing wrong at all.  This is why I didn't want to be a journalist.

New Music Video

I've been playing around with the idea for making a music video for 'Sleep' by MCR. I'm not giving the visuals away as of yet, but it should be good, I'll be starting work on it as soon as I have enough footage,

Later dudes....

Revised LAN date

Ok, so the last date I had for the next LAN party was wrong, its actually on the 19th May - a Saturday, and I'll be staying over at a mates house seeing as we will probably be playing until like 3AM Sunday morning.

 

On a different note, I have been doing some research about the North Wales School of Art and Design building. Turns out it used to be an infirmary, and still has a basement area. I'm trying to arrange to go down there to film part of my student survival film, might be a bit creepy, but might also look good on film

Next Lan Party

I have just been informed by one of my mates that the next LAN party is 15 May - that's a lot sooner than I originally thought, but its good that its so soon

Watched 'The Holiday' last night / Buying a MacBook Pro

So I bought 'The Holiday' at ASDA at the weekend, and watched it last night, I knew it was a romcom, but didn't know it had one of the main characters as a movie trailer maker, another as a film scorer.

 

Overall, it felt a bit too long, but I did like the way that in certain points throughout the film, there was a voiceover (like the one used on movie trailers) describing one of the women's situation in the film - this I found quite refreshing.

 

Okay, I know as a review this totally sucks, and its not really a review as such, just my ramblings.

 

On a separate note, I should be getting a MacBook Pro soon, Mark from Frozen Moon wants one, so he's going to try and get a discount when he buys 2, and then I pay him the discounted price, saving me lots of money.