Once Upon a Timeline

Of course, there are pros and cons to both but it’s important to analyse every single one. We need to take a close look at how useful they are to us at every stage of our career. On this week’s show I go deep into the...

In this week’s show I’ll be going deep into the art of piloting, our ability to immediately change direction after negative feedback about our work. We’ll talk through what exactly pivoting is, how it works, the...

Every cut we make, every shot we make longer, every piece of body language we include or exclude has massive repercussions. We’re shaping the experience of the audience with hundreds of these decisions every day. In...

We want to build a huge creative filing cabinet in our minds that we can apply to any set of raw footage that comes into our cutting room. I’ll be breaking down the key concepts, techniques and mindsets that we can...

On this weeks show Paddy talks through the definitive checklist of every single thing we need to consider when cutting, as well as every single thing directors and producers expect from us.Scored as always by our...

We all know that the way we work with directors is essential to our career success but how does that actually work? What are the specific character traits that we need to develop? And what are the creative skills that...

On this week's show we are very lucky to have the hugely talented documentary director Suemay Oram as our guest. Suemay has directed films for everyone from the BBC to Netflix to HBO. In this two part interview she...

So, what is it and why is it useful? Well, this skill is about identifying, planning and deliberately constructing the subtle visual elements that reinforce the overall arc of the story. Quite simply, we sprinkle...

People change when they know there is a camera pointed at them and this causes all kinds of issues for us editors, especially in non scripted editing. One of the fundamental laws of our art form is the create...

There's a whole bunch of barriers standing in our way in terms of designing and navigating this path successfully. But on this week's show we're going to focus more on the creative residue that needs to be discarded...

The pressure was immense, the hours were punishing and the shooting ratio was enormous. They had air craft carriers, F-18’s fighter jets, insane arial sequences, Covid lockdown, Tom Cruise was starring, Jerry...

Eddie has taken time away from his Mission Impossible 7 timeline to come back on the podcast and talk through all of the trials, tribulations and triumphs of his latest collaboration with Tom Cruise.Come and join us...