Remember a story about a small town Malegaon, 285 kilometres from Mumbai (India). In this particular part of the world, Shekh Nasir a young enterprising fellow courts news by making movie remakes of Bollywood blockbusters. His films commercially screened in the small town video parlours created a hysterical fever among the public elevating his films…
Filmmakers have held their breath at the prospect that their industry and craft is about to be changed forever by the impact of digital technology as a production medium and the internet as a delivery platform. Digital technology has undoubtedly had impact upon the art and craft of film making – whether that is a…
I’ve gotten a lot of questions lately from filmmakers who haven’t gone into production yet with their films, as to whether or not it’s a good time to start thinking about distribution. My answer is always the same: it’s a great idea to start thinking about distribution even BEFORE you make your film. For example, I’m big…
The word “Professional” is often bandied about by indy filmmakers, and I’ve heard and read many things I just wouldn’t expect a “Pro” to say, though the person writing or saying them claims to be one. Time for a definition of terms. Question: What qualifies a person to be a Pro? Answer: Paycheck. That’s the…
Whether you are publishing a RSS feed, a Podcast, or a Vodcast, the RSS date/time format is a pain in the neck to create — especially if you are building the XML in a text editor. To make things quick and simple, I created a single line of VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) code that generates a…
When I first heard of “vodcasting,” the term seemed to be a clumsy upgrade of the more popular term “podcasting.” Podcasting is related primarily to audio, so it seemed that for video, someone just stuck the letter V on the front. Now that I know it means “video-on-demand casting,” I think it’s a good moniker…
So you say you have a burning desire to make a movie and you will do what ever it takes to get the job done? You fancy yourself an “independent” type and you want to reflect that in your art? Well, you better know what it takes before you decide to launch yourself into the…
Let’s face it, many people want to make films. They have dreams, they have plans, sometimes they even put a cast and a crew together, but most of these films never get completed. The primary reason for that is that most people have the expectation of their low-budget film coming out looking like a high-budget…
To do anything worthwhile in life is a process and if you put your mind to it you can do it” That’s what my dad used to say to me all the time when I was a kid. Well, turns out he was right. Everything I’ve encountered since the age of 18 from dating, going…
So you couldn’t find a distributor but you know your film has an audience? Or you haven’t tried getting a distributor and don’t feel like waiting out the time it takes and going through the process? In either case, you can take a do-it-yourself approach and release your movie on DVD or in the theaters,…
