James Gilmour

Editor & camera person - Steel Media / IGN / Netflix / Mashable / PC Mag

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I do what's called 'full service' or 'end-to-end' video production. Basically, the video equivalent of a one-man band.

🎥Camera operator
✂️ Editor
🎧 Sound engineer
🎤 Interviewer

Not for everyone, but it's efficient, low impact, and
incredibly satisfying.

From last week:

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Been having a much nicer time on The Butterfly App so I'm going to bail. Follow me, there's a link in my header image and one in the replies.

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Got no skin in the Superman game, but I'm a huge fan of sincerity in storytelling.

Introducing your sure-to-be yelled at Superman trailer with your hero being rescued by the magic flying dog and playing it 100% straight, no irony, just emotion?

More of that please.

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Left: Steven Soderbergh shooting Unsane (2018) on an iPhone 7

Right: Danny Boyle shooting 28 Years Later (2024) on an iPhone 15s

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My process is:

- Dislike taking selfies
- Use my camera setup instead
- Take photos
- Decide they're too much actually
- Do not post

Either everyone is winning or no one is, not sure which

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Johnny Trainline trying to scupper my London video shoot with his false promises. Not today Satan

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Capitalism has made me Christmas agnostic *except* for Christmas trees there's a real tree in my lounge lads it's big and it's real and it smells like memories YOU THERE BOY WHAT DA

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I will go to bat for both the It movies.

Beyond the perfect casting of the kids, their adult counterparts, and Pennywise, there's a non-ironic warmth to the whole enterprise that's increasingly rare.

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Love that Zemeckis is still interested in taking big swings, even when they result in films like Here.

[Gematsu @gematsu]

Mechanimal open-world survival crafting game Light of Motiram announced for PC https://t.co/FtsuJmE3nl

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As a culture we do not talk about Elias Koteas enough

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@dandouglas I too would have stewed on this clarification for 22 hours, kudos for holding off this long

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Watching Terrifier 2 and a mime is about to evicerate Jeff Buckley

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They're large and open back, so they're best for indoor use. But they respond well to EQ, don't crush your jaw, and have the biggest soundstage of any headphone I've owned.

In terms of drivability, staging, and value the Fidelios cannot be beat.

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Not to point people towards The Bad Shop, but the Fidelio X2HRs are the best all-round entry-level audiophile headphones on the market and they're £68 during holiday sales.

Launch price was £300.

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Incidentally, this gym pic stuff is 30% monitoring my progress and 70% playing with lighting, grading, and emulation with a controllable (and available!) human subject.

I'd very much like to work with some actual models / people who might want cool portraits down the line.

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"being in a big special room where you're not allowed to use your fucking phone"

this is my bedroom and you can't come in

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but seriously children, not only does using your phone at the movies show a complete disregard for everyone else at the theater, it also deprives you of the single best part about going to the movies: being in a big special room where you’re not allowed to use your fucking phone.

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Underrated Horror Game Thing: You happen to have the same name as the protagonist and the horrors somehow know who you are and address you directly

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Paddington 2 is immaculate but since the Queen died he's been radiating shy Tory energy

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If I mentally schedule a window to do something indulgent I will self-sabotage every time.

My 'morning of gaming' became 'defrost the freezer with a meat tenderiser.'