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Bunraku Opening Title Sequence
Way back when DN was still young we featured Guilherme Marcondes’ short Tyger and also had him join us for an interview. So I was pleased to see Guilherme applying his puppetry/animation skills to the stunning title sequence for Guy Moshe’s Bunraku. The folks over at Art of the Title have a great interview with [...]
7 Tips For Getting a Great Score for Your Film
If you’re thinking about getting an original score for your film, at some point you’ll want to start working with a composer. You might be pretty comfortable talking music, you might not. DO NOT PANIC. You directed your cast and crew, right? Whatever you did to get them to perform in the way you wanted [...]
Hooray For Earth: True Loves
A mysterious traveller uses strange clouds of smoke to travel through time in this absorbing video for Hooray for Earth track True Loves. Probably one of the best music videos you’re likely to see all year. If the style of the video feels familiar, creators Alex Takacs and Joe Nankin directed the Lovely Bloodflow video [...]
Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film – 2011
Even if you have little interest in the ubiquitous ‘list’ style of blog post, there’s one annual collection that anyone with a propensity towards indie film looks forward to annually and that’s Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Aside from our usual level of curiosity as to which directors we should run to [...]
Gotye: Somebody That I Used To Know
Animating the set and bodies of lead vocalists Wouter De Backer and Kimbra, gives Natasha Pincus’ video for Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know a surreal but somewhat magical feel. SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW (gotye, featuring kimbra) from stark raving productions on Vimeo.
EIFF2011: All Change
As regular readers of DN may well know, this year will mark my third annual visit to the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Around this time last year I wrote about the anticipation I felt at the days of films, networking opportunities and socialising I had ahead of me. This year the anticipation is very much [...]
DN Picks: Apr11
April brought a stack of double bank holidays in the UK, but the clock never stops here at DN. Our picks of the month… Essential Killing – MarBelle’s review of Jerzy Skolimowski’s “brave piece of cinema” was full of glowing praise for some challenging filmmaking and rightly so. Vincent Gallo excels in what is surely [...]
Life Just Is: From Paper Cut to Fine Cut
Postproduction for my debut feature, Life Just Is, started back in November last year (the film was shot over 14 days in October). My editor, Murat Kebir, was very keen to spend time organising all the footage before we began cutting together, so I took it as an opportunity to familiarise myself with the rushes. [...]
DN Picks: Mar11
OK you got us! March on DN has undoubtedly been dominated by SXSW and so too have the picks of the month. But on the other hand, there are also four documentary picks this month and how many film sites could say that? DN SXSW2011: Way of the Morris – Tim Plester – I remember [...]
SotW: How We Launched Our Film Online
Not content with hitting us with one of the best animated shorts you’re likely to see all year, the guys at Short of the Week have now provided a detailed explanation of how they launched The Thomas Beale Cipher online. It’s a great insight for filmmakers who want to get their film noticed and shows [...]
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