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Montage

By April 4, 20132 Comments

On Tuesday night I was priv­ileged to host a new ini­ti­at­ive from the Light House Cinema chain – a brief sur­vey of a dir­ect­or’s career pri­or to a spe­cial pre­view of their latest film. In this case, the dir­ect­or was Danny Boyle and his new film, Trance, will be reviewed here on Monday. I had a jolly good time re-watching the films and sourcing clips and even man­aged to pro­duce this little mont­age video by way of intro­duc­tion. (Warning: the audio is the open­ing mono­logue from Trainspotting and so is almost cer­tainly NSFW.)

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/63132038[/vimeo]

 

It’s not the first time that I have fooled around with iMovie this way. Last year I was asked by Downstage Theatre to pro­duce a short video intro­du­cing Sam Neill before his fun­draiser Q&A, An Innocent Abroad.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/46812870[/vimeo]

 

They are very enjoy­able, these little pro­jects, even though I have to re-learn iMovie every time I do them. Perhaps, if I don’t get one of the two dream jobs I want here in New Zealand I could be put to work on those In Memoriam videos they play at the Oscars every year.

2 Comments

  • dfmamea says:

    nice work, Dan. both mont­ages made me want to rewatch those films (gah, if only i had time).

    and a belated – and likely unhelp­ful – vote for you to con­tin­ue to share on this blog. however/wherever you go, you’ve got a read­er here who’ll con­tin­ue to fol­low you (until a restrain­ing order may be required).

    chur!

    • Dan says:

      Hi David

      Heard your inter­view on Arts on Sunday. I hope you have a fant­ast­ic sea­son of Goodbye MF.

      Thanks for all your sup­port here,

      DS