Nigel Streeter

The Irrefutable Truth About Demons

Err ... long story- took 10 years of concerted effort - i would expect anyone looking for a job to be this committed and determined - you're no use to me therwise.

Bunch of TV and a feature.

No budget, No time, Especially no development time - not producers fault - just the way it played out. My advice to everyone is NEVER attempt a post production schedule that straddles the change of a millennium. So i'm saying right here that i'm not available for 3000 A.D.
Technically the show has 2 day scenes, the rest is nights. The night lighting design calls for minimal illumination shooting on superspeed lenses at T1.2 gives depth-of-field measured in centimeters. Put that with extensive use of wet surfaces in the set design, gives highly specular sufaces. You get images full of large bright circles of confusion. Matching 3D to these plates is tricky especially in 24bitRGB (no budget for Cineon scanner) we did a search for tools to manage this and found none (shake comes close). So we wrote our own. Time constraints meant that we didn't finish this software till well after the shoot, so we had all these plates that we weren't sure we could even handle - stressful.

NZ and Wellington are attractive places in general. Special effects can be done anywhere but its nice here. Kiwi Lire makes it attractive for offshore productions. NZs real attraction is its wealth of shooting locations in such a small space, good crews, good infrastructure, pollitically stable, speak english - makes a great place to shoot.
If you're doing that, then why not stay for the post?

What are they? Guess that means no.

Show me the bandwidth - dude. The internet pretty much sucks for anything other than text. Who told Bill Gates he should reconsider his invovlement? A few years ago I thought that the internet could possibly deliver HDTV before broadcasters ever got off their butts. Now I think its possible that broadcasters (or something like them) will deliver broadband interactive communications before the .coms ever will. Total lack of agreed standards and corporate "spoiling" games are the problem. Netscape vs IE, Java vs C# etc. Grow up!

Don't know of ANYONE who's done that. The attributes that employers are looking for are roughly 1/3 skill in your speciality, 1/3 knowledge of film production methodology, 1/3 your personality - its a collaborative medium. If you can do that over the internet more effectively than other ways, then its good. Generally the large studios have an online method of first contact (text based), but you'll find that the next step is invariably submitting a VHS show reel and a list of work credits. That says it all really.