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Aspiring Filmmakers Boot Camp
If you have any interest in making films you owe it to yourself to go to one of Larry Meistrich's Aspiring Filmmakers Boot Camps. It is two days packed with information on the business of filmmaking. Larry touched on fundraising, pre-production, product placement, insurance, production, releases, post-production, and delivery to a distributor. He stressed the importance of…
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Light and Shadow workshop
I am a subscriber to shootingpeople.org New York filmmaker bulletins and I’ve seen the Light and Shadow workshop advertised on there many times over the last couple years. Since it is a two day workshop the planets have to align so that I don’t have anything planned for either day. Luckily those planets did their…
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We are (mostly) nobody filmmakers
There is a very good post by filmmaker Christopher J. Boghosian titled, "I Am A Nobody Filmmaker." With a title like that it could really go two ways. It could have been a rant by a guy who thinks that his work is being overlooked and is shaking his fist at the sky, but it's…
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HDMI field recorder for less than $1k?
It has been a long time coming, but there is finally an HDMI field recorder available for less than a thousand dollars. It's called the Atomos Ninja. A couple years ago I tried to build a computer with a Black Magic Intensity HDMI capture card. I say "try" because the computer never came together the…