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Add even more capability to your Adobe After Effects software and make your projects much more interesting. In this feature we bring you the latest and greatest plug-ins available today. Plug-ins are software modules that enhance and extend your creativity and productivity directly from within After Effects. To automate or customize your workflow,... [Read more of this post]
Horror Filmmaking: From Script to Scream
It’s that time of year, but this article is for all those filmmakers that believe Halloween lasts all year long. In past features we brought you “202 DIY Filmmaking Tutorials,” “202 Final Cut Pro Tutorials,” “202 Sony Vegas Tutorials,” among others. We now turn our attention to the dark art of Horror Filmmaking and... [Read more of this post]
202 Sony Vegas Tutorials
Last time we featured “202 Final Cut Pro Tutorials,” we now continue our editing software features with Sony Vegas. We’ve gathered together some the best SV YouTube Channels and where possible included their embed playlists. Don’t forget to check out our “202 DIY Filmmaking Tutorials” to make that footage professional... [Read more of this post]
202 Final Cut Pro Tutorials
In our last featured list we covered “202 DIY Filmmaking Tutorials.” In this feature we will focus on Final Cut Pro. In future articles we will take a look at the other elements that make up the Final Cut Studio suite. Also stay tuned for other featured lists covering popular editing programs such as Adobe, Avid, Sony and more. Apple.com It... [Read more of this post]
Sites of the Week: DIY Distribution Companies
Sites of the Week: Websites to help sell your film online. This week we highlight a group of companies dedicated to assisting filmmakers in DIY film distribution. The following sites offer a wide range of services to help filmmakers reach audiences and simplify the process of selling their films. IndieFlix …IndieFlix is dedicated to providing... [Read more of this post]
Filmmaking 360:
Google Talk: Inventing the Movies
From: AtGoogleTalks - Scott Kirsner visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book “Inventing the Movies: Hollywood’s Epic Battle Between Innovation and the Status Quo, from Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs.” This...
Interviews:
How to Get Bruce Campbell in Your Movie
Bruce Campbell while being interviewed by Film School Rejects listed his criteria for being in your film: …The director must have experience: “I now have an official first-time director rule. That’s an official no.” The movie can’t have...
Screenwriting:
Visualization in Screenwriting
by Guy Magar ‘Heck, we’ll just write them, and let the directors worry about visualization!’ More often than not, and consciously or not, this seems to be the mindset of most writers based on the many hundreds of screenplays that have...
Development:
AICP Commercial Contracts and Forms
The Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) has put together a group of “boilerplate” contracts and forms for their television commercial production company members. You can find more information here. Contracts: aicp.next...
Pre-Production:
Early Star Wars Storyboards
The “Star Wars Storyboards” photo set over at Flickr contains some early storyboards from the first movie, tentatively titled “The Star Wars”. See the complete set of 70 here. Read More →
Production:
How do actors memorize their lines? A neurological perspective
Are their brains bigger than ours? In a public discussion held at New York’s Columbia University this month, the RSC’s Michael Boyd and Dr Oliver Sacks compared notes. …This process started with actors on their own going through their lines....
Post-Production:
Every Video Format You Need to Know
Gizmodo’s Matt Buchannon demystifies codecs in his guide the different video formats available to the filmmaker. …Once upon time, video codecs and formats were really only the concern of AV nerds, anime freaks and hardcore not-so-legal movie...
Distribution:
Redefining Digital Content Distribution
Ross L. Pruden has republished his lecture “Redefining Digital Content Distribution, or Why Apple is About To Get Its Ass Kicked” from The Conversation in Berkeley in October. It covers license-based digital content distribution and the possible...
Off Topic:
Malcolm Gladwell on learning from spaghetti sauce
Malcolm Gladwell is the best-selling author of “The Tipping Point” and “Blink”. In this talk, filmed at TED2004, he explains what every business can learn from spaghetti sauce. (Recorded February 2004 in Monterey, CA. Duration:...
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