Artful Films
Distinctive Films of Everyday Life
Turn Your Movie Footage Into An Entertaining Short Film
Artful Films specializes in creating short films from your movie footage (and photos) that your friends and family will enjoy watching over and over.
Creating a movie with Artful Films includes these key features:
  • Collaborate with you to define a story line/theme and choose materials.
  • Creative video editing to bring out the feel of the story (includes titles and credits).
  • Full stereo sound with music, sound effects, dialog — edited and mixed in a professional audio suite.
  • DVD and a digital file suitable for use on your favorite movie web site (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.).

Story

The audio soundtrack (including dialog, background sounds, sound effects, and music) plays a crucial role in bringing the images and story to life. Artful Films pays careful attention to creating an engaging soundtrack.

Mixing: In this important step, all of the sound elements are blended together to form a smooth, balanced, and cohesive soundtrack with punch.

Video

Video is what you see and the images, whether moving or still, must captivate the viewer and bring meaning to the story. Artful Films applies the most appropriate editing for the story at hand providing a natural flow.

Artful Films works with source materials in many different formats both digital (HD/SD) and analog. We can assist with transferring analog materials such as older footage (8mm, Super 8, 16mm), and hard-copy photographs.

Audio

The audio soundtrack (including dialog, background sounds, sound effects, and music) plays a crucial role in bringing the images and story to life. Artful Films pays careful attention to creating an engaging soundtrack.

Mixing: In this important step, all of the sound elements are blended together to form a smooth, balanced, and cohesive soundtrack with punch.

About

Artful Films is owned and operated by Lawrence Dolton, a media engineer with expertise in sound design, video editing, photographic manipulation, and software development. Lawrence is currently developing multimedia kiosks for a variety of clients. He has also worked as an audio post-production engineer on television shows, films, and corporate videos and designed and built many different web applications.

For more information please visit his website here.