It's nearly over! :(
Today we watched the rough cut of the films, and to be honest I was really stressed about my sound! However, we got to speak to a professional sound designer, who'll be doing the final mix for us about what we want and found some music etc, and I'm now more confident about it!
We also had a load of amazing masterclasses from top industry professionals. First was from Tim Webber, Oscar Award Winning Visual Effects Supervisor from Gravity (which apparently he was also the 1st AD on), Dark Knight, Children of Men etc and VFX Artist for Avatar, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire... the list is endless! He spoke a lot about how he achieved the amazing effects seen in films such as Gravity and Dark Knight- in particular "Two Face" from Dark Knight and pretty much everything in Gravity! It was really interesting listening to him speak about it, and he also gave advice on how to get in to VFX as a career today as well as his own story (which was based in art and physics).
After this, Actor and Comedian Lenny Henry decided to drop by at NFTS and also gave us a short talk on equality and diversity within films and the film industry, which was really interesting (and funny)! It was awesome! We weren't told who we were going to have a talk from when we were urgently called back into the cinema, so while we were waiting for him to talk, we were all saying things like "that's really funny, he looks like Lenny Henry"- at which point he stepped forward and said "My name's Lenny Henry"!
After this we received a joint masterclass from Pawl Fuker, pre-visualisation artist for films such as Skyfall, Harry Potter, Fast and Furious, Sherlock Holmes, World War Z etc alongside filmmaker Jake Wynn, who has done many big music videos for Robbie Williams, The Spice Girls etc! Both people were really interesting and started off from very similar backgrounds, both being taught media studies by Pete Fraser (the project leader of the BFI Film Academy) at the same college just a year apart!
Overall, this was an amazing day!!! Can't wait to see the final cuts of all the films tomorrow!
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