How to Make a Blockbuster Movie Trailer
The super-talented Craven Moorhaus and Zak Koonce (aka Auralnauts) have created the perfect blueprint for your blockbuster movie trailer. See more at the Auralnauts YouTube Channel.
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The 24 Best Movie Posters of 2016
Movie posters have to say a lot about a film through little more than a few words and some graphic design. The editors over at Rotten Tomatoes have put together a list of 24 posters for films in 2016 which are some of the best. Check them out in the 24 Best Movie Posters of 2016 gallery.
Movie Poster Cliches
Jackomatic has put together this interesting blog post, entitled 15 Over-Used Movie Poster Clichés which looks at graphic design styles which are commonly used for posters for movies in specific genres. The post generally takes a negative view towards this, singing the familiar “Hollywood is creatively bankrupt” tune. While this is generally true of the films it produces, when…
So You Want to Make a Movie?
“So you want to make a movie?” That was the message that flowed through my mind when I first came up with the idea for my documentary “In the Mix: DJs Doing Work”. I wanted to do something about the culture that I love, hip-hop, and I knew that anything about hip-hop had to begin…
Tribeca Film Festival: Can Social Media Help ‘Indie’ Filmmakers Make It Big?
A true artiste may argue that in the end it does not matter how successful a film is, so long as the story is told. But if the true purpose of filmmaking is to tell a story, is it really a story if no one is watching? With that in mind, filmmakers of the 21st…
One Fat Cigar Launch Competition
By the end of October, One Fat Cigar, a new website for up-and-coming and professional film makers is launching. To announce the launch the guys at OFC are doing an exclusive promotion with Filmmaking.net, to give away 10 premium memberships prior to the launch of the site and giving filmmaking.net customers a first opportunity to…
How To Build A Buzz Machine For Filmmakers
A Book Summary of “Creating Customer Evangelists” by Ben McConnell & Jackie Huba. Independent filmmakers are entrepreneurs that most do everything they can do to get their work in front of a paying audience. Whether you like it or not, yyou are a brand and yyour film is a product. The more you can think…