Dylan Knapp, the cgi king!

Finished inserting special effects into the penultimate scenes of "mccarthy" today, our go to guy Dylan spent a part of the last 2days doing them, stay tuned to this blog for his tutorial on it, coming soon!!

Different stages of film production

Currently at a lecture in tralee IT about the different stages of film production, covers how to get investment, how km generate cash flow by things like Merchandising product placement etc. Interesting stuff!!

The End Is Nigh!!!

Well the year that is, is quickly becoming the year that was, that is for the trainees of T.V. and video production in FÁS, Monavalley Tralee at least! and what a year it was, I cant say I'm surprised though, I did a fas course before and i can honeslty say that like this one, it exceeded any of the tutelage that i ever obtained in college! and withing a much shorter time frame i might add! The equipment we had access to was mind boggling and ouy course instructors were amazing, more then will to donate their time, how ever much of it you'd require, i know one could argue thats there job but to do it without grudgery or destain on such a consistent basis really is, in my book at least impressive, also a word about us! the trainees, we've gotten to know eachother pretty well, and it hasn't all been flowers and cotten candy BUT without a doubt the high's have more then exceeded the lows and as a group i have to say that the dynamic was excellent, the team ethos and the willingness of everyone to pull in the same direction made it a pleasure to attend this course every day. On a final note, i would say that ANYONE looking to gain an education in camera work, tv/video production or anything in that genre this is a one stop shop for that, anything else is second best, FACT!!!

Presidential awards

Filming in maynooth today and tomorrow for the presidents awards, This guy is Eoin Kenny, He partook in the presidential awards program and found it a real positive in his life to date, As the program has certain criteria Eoin learned the Cello to satisfy part of it, we filmed him playing a piece and its going to be intercut with the interview we recorded by editor Fred O'Connor, should make for a really nice piece when its done!

Feeling Hungry?!

Check out his video made by Judie Russell, a friend of SproketFILMS possibly the best edit of its kind I've seen from within a very talented spectrum of individuals that I've gotten to know within the past year, while watching it, to me at least, it becomes very apparent that ABSOLUTELY every single individual shot was planned to perfection, there are no "by the way's" or "also gets" in this video, each individual shot was planned before hand, for that reason alone this video blows me away, planning is SO important, difficult (to do well) and many times underrated by many, this video show's planning in its edit, its obvious to me at least to see the amount of planning that went into it, EXCELLENT VIDEO in my humble opinion, hmmmm now I'm hungry, must pop out to buy some jam!! For those of you that are interested i believe it was shot on a canon 5D, well done Judie and your team! https://www.youtube.com/user/judierussell

The RED versus the Arri Alexa versus the Canon 7D, Let the battle commence!!!

Check out this interesting article comparing these three really hight spec cameras, from i personal point of view id love to know why the canon 7D a relitevly low spec dslr is being compared to two cinema cameras but people are stupid i guess!! The RED Epics big boast is that its able to produce 5K images, something the Alexa isn't able to do, however the have some pretty interesting counter arguments on this topic, have a read and see what you guys think!!!!
http://www.theblackandblue.com/2010/12/31/red-epic-vs-arri-alexa-vs-canon-7d/

An Insight into film Director Chris Nolan, not a sproketfilm but still good!!

Now that you've had a sneak peak of our forthcoming web show McCarthy check out a review of a mans works that could only inspire us,  click here to gain an interesting insight into Chris Nolans Artistic Direction when making his films, this is a review produced and edited entirely by Fred O'Connor, a close friend of SproketFILMS.