Category: Editing
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The Lost Art Of Film Editing
This is an astute article I copied out from the Boston Globe archives. It was written by Jessica Winter who is the author of “The Rough Guide to American Independent Film”. She wrote it 5 years ago but the central argument she makes is still true today and if anything the decision by committee is…
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Do I even have a tuxedo anymore?
I woke up this morning to some great news. My Film ‘Shtax’ has received a nomination at the Underground Cinema Awards. The film got a nod in the Best Independent Feature Film category and I’m obviously delighted with the news. As well as being up for the gong, the film will be screened as part…
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Young People of Galway, I love you…
It’s that time of year again, the Galway Film Fleadh. But whats this, I’m remarkably sober and have had a decent amount of sleep. How is that possible, well i’m living in New York this year and I am missing my first fleadh in 8 or so years. I’m certain however that my absence isn’t…
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Not a good launch then…
So during the last week Apple released Final Cut Pro X and its pretty safe to say it did not go down so well. In what appears to be a move away from their base of professional editors towards the consumer market, it has abandoned a lot of the pro features which are needed in…
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About Bloody Time To Be Fair…
I’ve managed to drag myself from my bed to do some work. Its only taken me like 10 years but now that I’m enjoying some time off abroad I have finally gotten round to putting a showreel together. It’s something I’ve always meant to do but getting everything together in the one place can be…
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Paisean Faisean advert
Here is a very effective ad that was done for Paisean Faisean, a series I cut a large number of episodes of TG4 got into trouble for this print ad they did for the series I also found this truncated episode on Youtube which is a quite poor quality upload. Between myself, James Finlan, Kevin…
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Neil McLauchlan 1964-2011
Over the weekend I was very saddened to hear about the death of my fellow editor Neil McLauchlan at the age of only 46. His funeral is today and I’m upset that I can’t make it as I am leaving the country for a bit. While I’m not the best placed or indeed the most…
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The Growing Years – Aoife Scott
I am pleased to present the music video I directed and edited for Aoife Scott. You can become a facebook fan of Aoife here and thanks again to jimmy for letting us use his amazing footage
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Music video I made goes online tomorrow
A music video I made for the singer Aoife Scott will be premiering on her facebook page tomorrow Friday 27th of May at noon. It is now available to watch here well it was, its gone down for the moment. Some issue with Youtube Aoife is sorting it out Here’s how it came about, About…
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Paul Gogarty on ‘The Naked Election’
A few months back myself and fionnuala ni chiobhain edited a show called ‘The Naked Election’ which followed a range of candidates as they ran in Irelands General Election 2011. Among those we followed was former Green Party TD Paul Gogarty, he probably came out of the show the worst and has blogged about the…
John Murphy 