We’re very pleased that the University of Ghana, Legon, has invite Erik Knudsen to give a keynote lecture to the inaugural Legon International Film Event in Accra, Ghana. The event, a mixture of film festival and academic conference, will screen The Raven On The Jetty as the opening film of the festival. The festival […]
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We’re very pleased that the first festival to confirm a screening of Erik Knudsen’s The Raven On The Jetty is the 2014 Keswick Film Festival in the English Late District. The screening takes place on the 2nd March 2014 on the closing day of the festival. A screening at the Keswick Film Festival is particularly […]
It’s the end of one part of the journey for The Raven On The Jetty and the beginning of another. The production process is over and we marked this with a Preview Screening for cast, crew and a few friends at the Odeon Printworks in Manchester. The first real test for the film! It was […]
Almost on the eve of the first preview screening of The Raven On The Jetty for cast and crew – and almost exactly a year after the first of the Vlogs for this project – Mark Duggan talks to Erik Knudsen about his new film. Erik reflects on the the aims of the project, the approach […]
The final stage of the technical process of making a film, prior to final mastering of the various outputs for theatrical, broadcast and web distribution, is the sound dubbing – or sound mixing. Sound is a critical component in many films, but particularly in The Raven On The Jetty. The importance I have placed on […]
We are inching our way to the completion of The Raven On The Jetty. In this Vlog, Erik Knudsen and Mark Duggan talk about the cinema projection test screening of the film. This was a test screening done at the Odeon Printworks in Manchester. The gold standard for the grading of the film and checking […]
In this Vlog, Erik Knudsen and Mark Duggan explain the process of colour grading for The Raven On The Jetty; this is one of the final stages in the post-production process that involves balancing all the colours and exposures of the shots and selecting an overall visual pallet for the film. By giving a few […]
As part of the ongoing production of Erik Knudsen’s feature film, The Raven On The Jetty, our Vlogs continue to give some insight into the process of making the film and the people involved in the project. In this Vlog, Stuart Samuels talks about his involvement in the creation of visual effects and titles for […]
Editing a film is one of the most enjoyable parts of the process of making a film. In fact, it is one of the key things that makes a film what it is: the juxtaposition of imagery in time. Following on from Vlog 22, in which Erik Knudsen discusses some aspects of the technical process […]
In the first of two Vlogs about the editing process, Erik Knudsen talks about the tools he is using for the editing of The Raven On The Jetty and how these tools allow him to work creatively with the material he has before him. In particular, he discusses Apple’s new Final Cut Pro X software […]