Category: Uncategorized
-
My two favourite shots in the film only last for a couple of seconds each but are possibly the most complicated of the entire shoot. They go by unnoticed without drawing much attention to themselves – mainly because they don’t comprise of any fancy choreographed action and probably more so because they can easily be…
-
Punk Rock Cinema : Black Magic Design “Punk-Rock really shook up our world. It was like a Year Zero Stalinist thing” – Douglas Hart, filmmaker and bass player with The Jesus and Mary Chain. I’ve been testing Blackmagic Design’s latest release, the eGPU, an all-in-one external graphics card for Macs. To anyone reading this who…
-
Original Article here – https://reviewfix.com/2018/01/review-fix-exclusive-grant-mcphee-talks-night-kaleidoscope/ Review Fix chats with filmmaker Grant McPhee, who discusses his vampire/horror flick, “Night Kaleidoscope,” giving us an incredibly deep look at his process and how the film was made. Review Fix: How was this film born? Grant McPhee: The film was written and shot very quickly. A script, used really more as…
-
(From old blog of 2016) As the 10th anniversary of the Red One Cinema camera approaches, I thought it would be a good time for an overview of the changing roles of the DIT and Cinematographer in 2016.The purpose, other than an overview of the recent changes in technology and practice is to bring more awareness…
-
We were lucky to have an 8 page spread on the film in May 2018’s edition of Digital Filmmaker Magazine. Full transcript below: Far From the Apple Tree Why will this project be of interest to readers of Digital FilmMaker? I think our team have managed to pull together a unique project. A drama feature…
-
Thanks I Magazine for including Big Gold Dream in their 15 Best Documentaries of 2017. You can read what they said here https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/best-documentaries-2017/
-
Far From the Apple Tree is an ambitious Scottish independent feature film, to be released next year. In the film we follow Judith, a struggling artist who is given her ultimate wish – a residency at the home of a renowned and controversial visual artist. However, we and Judith slowly come to realise…
-
Delighted that Teenage Superstars will be screened in Ireland, at the Cork International Film Festival Here’s their blurb: The Glasgow suburbs of the 1980’s may seem an unlikely launchpad for a musical revolution, especially one which would eventually span the oceans and in influence some of the biggest names in rock history,…
-
work in progress… Wigilia is a film I produced and was also the cinematographer for. It was directed by my friend, the very talented Graham Drysdale. This post is how we made it, why we made it and how you too can make your own feature film in 5 days -if you want to…
Grant McPhee Director 