Ian Garland(I)
- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Director
Ian is A film professional with 40+ years experience in the industry working on numbers music videos, commercials, television, documentary and feature film productions.
'I began my film making journey with an Super 8mm film camera at the age of 8. Making animations, live action, Sci Fi, horror, drama, fantasy, every conceivable genre was attempted and filmed with a group of similarly minded friends, some of whom continue to work in the business. We learned makeup, special effects, matting, double exposures, optical printing, designing and making costumes and building sets (my mother was very patient and supportive) and miniatures to spaceships buildings, cars everything! Naturally exploding the miniatures at every opportunity and filming it is slow motion was the order of the day. We were hungry and having so much fun, we lapped up everything we could about making films. A wonderful time and as we matured the work grew into using 16mm film.
When I was just 18 years old I wrote and directed a horror short entitled 'Cheese Sandwich' (this is available to view here on Youtube. I was in fact 17 when I entered the Film industry, working in London, Soho, originally as a runner for Tony Cuthbert Cartoons, He was famous for his role in animating the Beatles in Yellow Submarine so this was an exciting opportunity. I left after a year as I was not really progressing I felt and found a better job as as a trainee film editor, for an established film editing company, based next to the EMI building on Dean Street W1. Another great opportunity and I made the most of it, learning from top pop video editors of the day, not exactly my chosen path, I wanted to be in production, but this was the 1980s and working in production seemed like a fantasy as I had no direct family connections in cinema, my dream world was out of reach.
Learning film editing and then working freelance as an editor has in fact been a blessing and has set me on a solid and constructive path. Teaching me many lessons about both production and post production. I have learned how to refine an actors performance, story pacing, comedy timing and now work on many big films and television productions. I was also a pioneer using Avid Media Composer in 1992 when it first appeared in the industry and made waves. I worked closely with the editors committee in their London office and was involved with discussions to refine and improve the interface of MC1. Many of the functions I helped shape in Media Composer are still in use to this day.
Now I have moved forward into the world of dramatic film making. Now from the ground up and that very first word on the page, crafting the script writing to final draft, finding the actors to play the roles, sculpting the pictures and the sound to create compelling cinematic experiences is a journey of wonder that grows as I experience new freedoms.
The art I follow has several names given to it 'Film making' , 'Cinema' , 'Movies', they all contain subtly different approaches, but they all share the same vision to achieve something greater than the sum of the parts and something beyond reality, something that will communicate ideas, emotions and dreams and live on into the future.
Story telling is what it's about for me.
It could be a story about love, about life, about death, about the past, about the now or the future, the possibilities are infinite.'
Get in touch lets makes some dreams together!
'I began my film making journey with an Super 8mm film camera at the age of 8. Making animations, live action, Sci Fi, horror, drama, fantasy, every conceivable genre was attempted and filmed with a group of similarly minded friends, some of whom continue to work in the business. We learned makeup, special effects, matting, double exposures, optical printing, designing and making costumes and building sets (my mother was very patient and supportive) and miniatures to spaceships buildings, cars everything! Naturally exploding the miniatures at every opportunity and filming it is slow motion was the order of the day. We were hungry and having so much fun, we lapped up everything we could about making films. A wonderful time and as we matured the work grew into using 16mm film.
When I was just 18 years old I wrote and directed a horror short entitled 'Cheese Sandwich' (this is available to view here on Youtube. I was in fact 17 when I entered the Film industry, working in London, Soho, originally as a runner for Tony Cuthbert Cartoons, He was famous for his role in animating the Beatles in Yellow Submarine so this was an exciting opportunity. I left after a year as I was not really progressing I felt and found a better job as as a trainee film editor, for an established film editing company, based next to the EMI building on Dean Street W1. Another great opportunity and I made the most of it, learning from top pop video editors of the day, not exactly my chosen path, I wanted to be in production, but this was the 1980s and working in production seemed like a fantasy as I had no direct family connections in cinema, my dream world was out of reach.
Learning film editing and then working freelance as an editor has in fact been a blessing and has set me on a solid and constructive path. Teaching me many lessons about both production and post production. I have learned how to refine an actors performance, story pacing, comedy timing and now work on many big films and television productions. I was also a pioneer using Avid Media Composer in 1992 when it first appeared in the industry and made waves. I worked closely with the editors committee in their London office and was involved with discussions to refine and improve the interface of MC1. Many of the functions I helped shape in Media Composer are still in use to this day.
Now I have moved forward into the world of dramatic film making. Now from the ground up and that very first word on the page, crafting the script writing to final draft, finding the actors to play the roles, sculpting the pictures and the sound to create compelling cinematic experiences is a journey of wonder that grows as I experience new freedoms.
The art I follow has several names given to it 'Film making' , 'Cinema' , 'Movies', they all contain subtly different approaches, but they all share the same vision to achieve something greater than the sum of the parts and something beyond reality, something that will communicate ideas, emotions and dreams and live on into the future.
Story telling is what it's about for me.
It could be a story about love, about life, about death, about the past, about the now or the future, the possibilities are infinite.'
Get in touch lets makes some dreams together!