by Screen Editors | Apr 8, 2012 | Interviews Articles
What attracted you to Australia The Time Traveller's Guide? Basically, to get a chance to help tell a BIG PICTURE story. With a starting point at the Year 'Dot' and covering a span of 4.6 billion years across four 1 hour episodes, I guess films don't get much bigger...
by Screen Editors | Mar 16, 2012 | Interviews Articles
In The Straits your block of episodes is the end of the series. Did this heighten the editing style? Not really, except for the final episode, which has a long sequence of parallel action in which all the conflicts of the series come to a head: A surprising one, I...
by Screen Editors | Mar 15, 2012 | Interviews Articles
There is a mix of family drama, high octane illegal business, humour in various guises, the Papua belief system and Christianity. How did you balance it in the middle block of The Straits? There's a significant event at the end of episode 3, which has a huge effect on...
by Screen Editors | Mar 14, 2012 | Interviews Articles
The Straits has strong scripts, great cast, exotic locations. How did you enhance these elements in the edit? I think whenever you have strong elements across all departments you need to be equally as good in your own area of expertise. To enhance these elements I...
by Screen Editors | Mar 10, 2012 | Interviews Articles
The Great Mint Swindle tells the true story of the Mickelberg brothers who were wrongfully convicted of stealing gold from the Perth Mint. What issues did you encounter in creating a dramatic narrative based on recent events? We only had 95 minutes to tell a story...
by Screen Editors | Feb 2, 2012 | Interviews Articles
Shut Up Little Man! started with the cassette recordings of Peter Haskett and Raymond Huffman arguments. How did you structure the pictures around the audio core of the documentary? Matthew Bate (director) wanted to use the raw audio from which this phenomenon grew,...