https://vimeo.com/248630302 I often find myself chatting with visual effects supervisors during the frenzied weeks just before their final delivery date for some new blockbuster movie. I always feel guilty about keeping them from their work, and I’m always grateful that they take time out of their busy schedules to do the interview. Just before Christmas, … Continue reading Cinefex Diaries – Up Against the Clock
Tag: The Shape of Water
Cinefex Diaries – 2018 Starts with a Splash
Every New Year kicks off with movie awards season, and this year the film that everybody's talking about is the romantic fantasy The Shape of Water. Regular readers of this blog will already know how much I enjoyed covering this film for the winter issue of Cinefex - I blathered on about it in this … Continue reading Cinefex Diaries – 2018 Starts with a Splash
Cinefex Diaries – Issue 156 Hits the Streets
Cinefex 156 is hot off the press and due to land on newsstands this week. I've talked already on this blog about my two articles this issue - the first on Marvel's epic Thor: Ragnarok, and the second on Guillermo del Toro's exquisite The Shape of Water. Also in our winter edition, Joe Fordham writes … Continue reading Cinefex Diaries – Issue 156 Hits the Streets
Cinefex Diaries – Writing for the iPad
I woke up this morning fully intending to work on my draft article for Cinefex 157. My email inbox had other ideas, containing as it did all the resources I needed to write the iPad captions for my two articles in Cinefex 156. What’s that saying about best-laid plans? With any magazine issue, writing iPad … Continue reading Cinefex Diaries – Writing for the iPad
Cinefex Diaries – The Rhythm of Captions
There’s a rhythm to life at Cinefex. No sooner do you get your teeth stuck into a new assignment than the previous one comes knocking at the door again. The new assignment in question is my article for our February issue. The movie I’m covering won’t be released until next year but my copy deadline … Continue reading Cinefex Diaries – The Rhythm of Captions
Cinefex Diaries – The Shape of Water
We’re exactly a month away from the December 8 theatrical release of The Shape of Water, the latest offering from filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. Billed as an ‘adult fairy tale,’ this R-rated fantasy tells the story of mute janitor Elisa (Sally Hawkins), who encounters a mysterious amphibian man (Doug Jones) in the secret government facility … Continue reading Cinefex Diaries – The Shape of Water