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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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Speed Up the Search for Sound Effects
Adam A. Johnson from SFXsource.com got in touch to ask how much we enjoy searching through 1000′s of sound effects to find that one gem. “Not much” we admitted, “It’s probably down to the libraries you’re searching,” he said. So we suggested that as an owner of a sound effects library, perhaps he’d like to [...]
Art in America: Brent Green
DN’s favourite animator Brent Green got a quality 10 page feature in last month’s issue of Art in America written by Saul Ostrow. I suggest you kick back with a glass of wine and get further acquainted with Brent and his work.
How to Get a BAFTA Nomination for Your Short Film
Tim Clague over at Projector Films has been running a series of posts dissecting the potential reasons behind the selection of this year’s BAFTA nominated shorts. Here’s a link to Tim’s conclusion which has links to the proceeding five parts. In related news, we’ll be running our interview with BAFTA nominee Piers Thompson for his [...]
Dozens of Great Holiday Gifts for Filmmakers
The Christmas season is almost upon us and so is the time to think about what to give that special filmmaker in your life. Those filmy types can be a tricky lot to buy for with all their geekery but fret no more, Koo over at nofilmschool has done all the heavy lifting with his [...]
Life Just Is: Taking the Plunge
Some Thoughts by a First Time Feature Film Director Like pretty much all filmmakers, I’ve always wanted to make a feature. Other, shorter, forms of the medium are all well and good, and certainly have their place on the filmic landscape, but features are the epicentre from which they rumble – and therefore the goal [...]
60 Best Blogs for Aspiring Screenwriters
If there’s a single filmmaking fact we can all agree on it’s that this isn’t a career for the faint of heart. Even with talent and determination it can often be an uphill slog so you can never have too many resources to help you on your way. With this in mind bachelorsdegree.org have collated [...]
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