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- Reasonably Shorts is the official home of multi award winning filmmaker Ian Lawton.Have a look around. Watch some video's. Listen to some music. Read some nonsense twittering.If you are interested in working with Ian or want Ian to work with you, head on over to the contact page and get in touch.Below are some links to Ian's movie sites:You can rent my movie here for only 99c
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Coming from a background in animation for television and short film, I am currently working as a freelance producer and editor for television. My knowledge of animation filmmaking techniques has been an invaluable asset to my work in postproduction.
My eclectic workload covers anything from drawn animation, commercials directing, radio advertising, documentary to short film, as well as corporate video and also music videos. As a screenwriter, I have been short-listed on several occasions; have doctored scripts for advertising, copywriting & movie trailers. My work has also been screened in many International Film Festivals.
I am a member of the Irish Screenwriters & Playwrights Guild.
I am an alumnus of Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Screenwriting course.
I have worked producing promotional content for television broadcast, one of which earned a prestigious Shark Award for my campaign for the US TV series: Friends for Channel 6 in 2007.I'm represented by McFarlaine-Chard Associates.
As well as producing and directing corporate documentary I have also set up and run an Audio Video department for one of Irelands leading publishing companies, producing in-house web video content and advertising as well as producing Radio campaigns for their numerous publications.
I have produced, written & directed several short films, two if which are being developed into feature films.
I have produced & directed a plethora of music videos & continue to do so when commissioned, along with a multitude of other video related work.
Recently completed the pilot episode of a new comedy entitled Garda Confidential.
Currently in Production of a short thriller entitled Just Trust Me, shooting in West Cork.
Also an intimate drama entitled Coma. Based on a script shortlisted by The London Screenwriters Festival in 2012 & featuring music by German composer Nils Frahm.Specialties: Directing, Editing, Screenwriting
Experience- 1994 - PresentOwner, Director. / Reasonably Shorts
Producer of Music Video, Corporate Video, Radio & Television Promotional Content, Short Narrative Film, Screenwriting.
Post-Production a speciality
- 1994 - 2009Owner, Director. / Reasonably Shorts
Creative Director
- 2006 - 2008Producer/ Director/ Editor / Intermission Studio
As producer/editor at Intermission I produced & edited promo content for the station Channel 6.
I also produced & directed many corporate video's & advertisements as the in house Director.
Education-
1990 - 1994DLCAD Dun Laoghaire Collage of Art & DesignDiploma in Design Communication (Film & Animation)
- IADT Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & TechnologyB.A. Degree (Hons) in Filmmaking
- Nagle College
- Scoil Stiofan Naofa
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Interests:Film Rock
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by James Random.
This guy has done a couple of posters for me in the past.
I like the cut of his jib me.
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Nice to get a mention in the Harmlessnoise blog on entertainment.ie.
Good write up on the Large Mound project.
Can be read here.
EPK I made for Large Mound documenting the halfway point of their Another Year of Rock album project.
I may have been offline for quite some time and updates, tweets etc have been non existent, but that is not to say I haven’t been busy “behind the scenes”.
Above is a one sheet to help promote the film Back to Mine.
I took the photo’s one night at the phone box down the road.
I got funny looks as drunken locals passed by on their way home as I wiped fake blood off the telephone and my step daughter went through copious wet wipes to get her hand clean.
Quite a bit of subtle photoshop trickery was employed to piece together the perfect image from several “takes” - The most obvious being the removal of the Eircom logo and replaced with a “Dial 999” logo instead.
Some of you may remember the promotional image with a similar logline called Till The Night Closes In. Well this is the same project. Its just that the name has changed as the story was written & the original concept for when it was called Till The Night became null and void.
Photoshoppery was “done” by the photoshop guru amgd.net
There is also a basic website set up for the project.
Early days yet, but you know, this kind of stuff helps.
I also got some great tips & advice from someone I met on Twitter who does this kind of thing professionally.
It got the thumbs up from her, hope you like it too.
PS There is a reverse, I’ll post that some other time.
Why not me? Why not? A guy can get anything he wants as long as he pays the price. What’s wrong with that? Stranger things have happened.
Rupert PupkinSo I thought I’d share a great and simple method of achieving smooth slowmotion from HDV footage shot at 50 interlaced frames per second.
Shutter speed is important too. 120 is grand or else you get some serious flicker.
I was hoping to go the Cinema Tools route but 50i actually runs at 25 frames per second, just as interlaced fields not full frame.
So then I found JES Deinterlacer. Something I had a long time ago, but never really used it.
I was just going to convert 50i into 50p & then extend the clip by double, but with the JES app you can create whole frames from the separate fields individually thus doubling your frame count but not your frame rate and viola! 50% slowmotion without any frame blending or interpolation!
And best of all, it is smooooooth.
Goodbye Twixtor, Optical Flow and all those other million year render time hungry methods (not to mention digitally estimated & created artificial frames).
Can’t believe it was so easy.
Only way I’m doing slowmotion from now on.
Until of course I get my hands on a variable speed film camera.
Thats me tucked away on the bottom left & my Fig Rig.
Finally getting into working on this video for The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock.
Of course I’ve had my fair share of technical nightmares thus far. I just wouldn’t be me if I did.
Very rarely do I play it safe when I make a music video. Its always an excuse to experiment for me. And this one is no exception.
I’ve yet to get any actual editing done, I’m still on the assistant work stage. (Jesus, I’d kill for an assistant). A whole day spent troubleshooting a slowmotion workflow.
Think I’ve finally nailed it.
I’m sick to death of doing frame blending style slowmotion. Optical flow, digital inbetweens. Nothing ever looks as good as proper ramping slowmotion like I did in my first ever music video back in 1995. Which was shot on super 16mm using an old clockwork Bolex camera.
This video kinda harkens back to that but in the digital realm.
Including some stop motion sequences.
So I’ve shot at a high frame rate and messed about with the shutter speed & hopefully I can create a decent slowmotion without having to render anything for a million years.
Fingers crossed.
In the cinema the other day I asked the lady at the desk would they be showing Kung Fu Panda in 2D.
She said she doubted it as they would probably make more money from the 3D print.
(I went to see the disappointing Rio instead as it was in 2D. (I was with my kid))
Anyway, I beg to differ.
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- PHONE: 00353 86 3314093
- EMAIL: IAN at REASONABLYSHORTS dot COM
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