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BREAKING DOWN MOVIE MAGIC BY COLBY RAMSEY
Film Editor Eddie Hamilton revealed some of the secrets and challenges of the movie cutting process in a fast-paced conversation yesterday in the Forum.
Hamilton, who has worked on titles including Kingsman, Top Gun: Maverick and numerous entries in the Mission: Impossible series, also brought along some fascinating behind-the-scenes footage to show the audience. “There can be 500 to 600 people working behind the scenes to make the magic between action and cut happen in front of the camera,” he told the audience. “Months and months of work then goes to the cutting room to my fi ngertips, so there’s a lot of responsibility associated with that to make sure everyone’s best work is presented on screen. “Our job is to be emotional,
Eddie Hamilton, Editor ACE, in conversation with Carolyn Giardina, Tech Editor, The Hollywood Reporter
visual storytellers. As the editor I have to constantly put myself in the audience’s point of view, and make sure that every emotional impulse that they’re feeling from beginning to end is communicated as clearly as possible.”
Hamilton explained that to work fast, he breaks the raw footage down in as much detail as possible
so he can fi nd things quickly later: “It’s a very intense, time- consuming process,” he said. “When they’re rolling cameras, I spend months slowly assembling the fi lm in a very rough form. The real trick with editing is to trust this creative process.”
Although Hamilton has worked on Mission: Impossible fi lms since
SKY COUNTS THE BENEFITS OF CLOUD TRANSITION BY DAVID WOOD
Broadcast technology bosses took to the Innovation Stage yesterday to explain what they have learned about transitioning their businesses to the cloud. Dave Travis, Group Director of Content, Broadcast, and Platforms, Sky, said that once the broadcaster made the decision to relocate its entire ecosystem to the cloud, it hasn’t looked back. “Now we have 300 channels running in the cloud handling all our encoding and distribution,” said Travis, who was enthusiastic about the transformation. “There is a seemingly endless list of benefi ts, not least of which is cost optimisation to our clients.” “We have reduced the total cost of ownership to our platforms and have been able to invest that money in hardware,” he added. “We are also able now to develop platforms at speed, and it’s reduced our carbon footprint.”
The transition to the cloud, with the help of AWS, has played an important part in Sky’s environmental targets – the aim is to make the business net zero by 2030. Martin Boronski, Chief Technology
Offi cer, BCE, who has managed cloud transitions for broadcasting businesses across Europe, added: “For us and our customers, one of the major benefi ts is we don’t have to invest large amounts of money in infrastructure. It’s now simply a pay-as-you-go model. You use it for two hours, you pay for two hours.” Travis and Boronski also shared what they have learned from the process.
“Ensuring you have security by design at the very beginning was a lesson learned,” said Travis. “We made our fair share of mistakes, which have cost us a bit of money. My biggest piece of advice is to think carefully at the beginning of the process about how it’s all going to work,
2014, he still interrogates every emotional nuance of each scene, and confronts anything that isn’t working. “If it’s not working for the audience, we’ll cut it out or fi gure out another way to tell the story more simply and economically,” he said. “Ultimately, the audience is right.”
(L-R): Steph Lone, Director, Solution Architects Media & Entertainment, AWS; Dave Travis, Group Director of Content, Broadcast, & Platforms, Sky; Martin Boronski, Chief Technology Offi cer, BCE
and don’t forget to track all the benefi ts.” Boronski added: “Don’t be afraid – and celebrate your successes. But remember to be humble about your own expertise. Don’t think that you can do everything by yourself. Team up with the right partners to upscale quickly.”
Both underlined the importance of training. “All of our teams are
skilled, but are not necessarily cloud experts yet,” said Travis. “Our approach is to have partners come in and have people shadowing them. The cross-pollination of skills takes a long time.” Boronski added: “We now appreciate that everything we do in the future must be software-driven. I fully trust that this industry is now embracing this approach.”
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