The idea of crowd-funding independent films has received a lot of attention of late, with several filmmakers singing praises of the ability to shortcut the cumbersome financing process and go straight to the audience. But the crowd-funding route isn’t an automated route to budget riches. Producer and marketing consultant James J. Heath looks at the Top 5 Crowd-Funding Mistakes…
ILM would like you to think so. A recent post to their YouTube channel shows just how little of the final sequence of ‘The Avengers’ was actually shot in New York City (where the action actually takes place). The use of virtual sets has been common for more than a decade now, yet in all that time it’s proven…
It’s a problem that seems to be shared by both quantum physics (a subject about which I know a ton, seriously) and documentary filmmaking – does the act of watching something change it in some fundamental way? How can someone act, react and respond “normally” to life when they’re aware those actions, reactions and responses are being…
News of a music video completion dropped in our inbox this morning where some cash prizes, cool phones, and a chance to have your work premiere at the 2013 edition of Sundance London. Here’s the blub: We’re running the Nokia Music Short Film Competition, in association with Sundance London – and we thought your love of film,…
With the recent release of Tarantino’s eighth feature as a director, the guys over at Film Doctor take a look back over his career to date, and how the once video store clerk has achieved and maintained his seat at the table of top directors. “Quentin Tarantino was born Texan, but bred Californian. From his early school years ,…
The guys over at SoundWorks Collection visit Park Road Post Studios in Wellington, New Zealand to talk with the sound team of Director Peter Jackson’s first instalment of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Featured interviews include Re-recording Mixer Michael Hedges, Re-recording Mixer Chris Boyes, Re-recording Mixer Michael Semanick, Co-Supervising Sound Editor Brent Burge, Co-Supervising Sound Editor Chris…
All cinemas are expected to convert to digital projectors by 2015, and this digital shift is having a dramatic affect on film festivals submission, exhibition, and distribution processes. Quvis recently put out a survey report that gives filmmakers great insight into how cinema digitization is affecting film festival organizers, judging and screening practices, as well as filmmakers? distribution options out of film festivals….
If you fancy spending spring and beyond studying filmmaking in Hungary, then you’ll be excited to learn that the Budapest Film Academy has announced a set of scholarships covering full and part tuition. The scholarships are open to students from all countries. Here’s the press release: Budapest Film Academy invites submissions for its scholarship competition….
The recent release of The Hobbit has caused an awful lot of buzz, both in from critics and fans, but also from filmmakers, due to Peter Jackson’s decision to shoot at 48 frames per second. Although James Cameron has also gone on record as a fan of high frame rate (HFR) shooting, the concept isn’t actually…
Ruan Lotter runs a YouTube channel called Tunnelviziontv which contains a number of interesting tutorials, product tests, and other stuff of interest to indie filmmakers. In this post Ruan looks at colour grading with Final Cut Pro.
