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We Make Movies (Better): Giving FCPX Another Chance
It’s become one of the film world’s great pastimes to sit around and hate on what Apple did with Final Cut Pro X. Upon its launch, you would have thought Apple had come in and kidnapped every editor’s...
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Let Fury Have the Hour: A Lesson in Making Fire and Creative Response
“Let Fury Have the Hour”poster by Shepard Fairey Twenty-five hundred days. The number feels heavy, eternal. If I divide it into years—seven—it becomes plainer still that the journey to transform the...
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We Make Movies (Better): Final Cut Pro X/RED, Part 2
In Part 1, I dealt with how to properly prep your RED project for long-term feature film success in Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). Now we’ll get to the fun part: Editing. I’m going to go in depth with a ton...
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We Make Movies (Better): New grass roots and the digital age of moviemaking...
I have a confession to make: I’m a bit of an interloper in the film world. I was an actress for 15 years, having done my first Equity show at 16, but realized when I got to Los Angeles that my...
View ArticleWe Make Movies (Better): Final Cut Pro X/RED, Part 3
Finishing your RED movie using Final Cut Pro X, Redcine-X, and DaVinci Resolve In Parts 1 and 2, I showed you how to properly set up your project, as well as some ways Final Cut Pro X (FCPX) can make...
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Accepting Applications: Dogfish, the world’s first film production accelerator
Back in 2005, Paul Graham and Trevor Blackwell, two tech pioneers who’d made fortunes in Silicon Valley, founded a company called Y Combinator. The business model was based on publicly funded business...
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This Film Isn’t Real: Maja Milos’ Tiger Award-winning debut, Clip
On a Saturday afternoon at AFI Fest last November, I walked into a 4:15 PM screening of a Serbian film called Clip by first-time director, Maja Milos. I knew from the press images that it was at least...
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Five Ways to Navigate the Shoulds & Supposed-Tos of Moviemaking by Tara Samuel
Have you read Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art? If you have, spread the word. If you haven’t yet, here’s the gist of it: The world will be saved when we all make what we are supposed to be making....
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Documenting the Closure of California State Parks: How They Did It by Jarratt...
When we found out that a quarter of California state parks were closing due to a $22 million budget cut, we thought we must have been missing something. It is a nearly insignificant amount of money in...
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4K Revolution: New Standard Delivery Format Looms by Sam Mestman
If you happened to be walking around the floor this year at NAB, you probably noticed that 4K was everywhere. Whether it was Blackmagic’s 4K Production Camera, Sony’s 4K cameras and projectors, or...
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Crowdfunding Field Guide from Indiegogo is a Must-Read
Indiegogo’s Crowdfunding Guide is a must-read for moviemakers looking to self-finance their masterpieces. Jason Brubaker wrote this post originally for his helpful how-to website FilmmakingStuff.com,...
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Enter “On Location: The Los Angeles Video Project” for a chance at winning...
ATTENTION! Create and enter a film in “On Location: The Los Angeles Video Project” and have a shot at winning over $50,000 in prizes! The Los Angeles Video Project is a community outreach multimedia...
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Tech Reviews: FCPX Plugins and App Roundup
A relatively large 3rd party ecosystem has sprung up around Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). Here are some of the programs, apps and FCPX plugins I really enjoy. With MovieMaker.com’s new DIY Monday series,...
View ArticleRevenue Record: Yekra Crushes with Online Doc
Like everyone else trying to forecast the economic landscape of independent film, over here at the MovieMaker offices, we think a lot about innovations in the VOD marketplace. The future of...
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DIY Marketing Monday, Episode One: Finding a Hook by Sheri Candler
Our new monthly DIY Monday feature is a column on distribution and marketing fundamentals by Sheri Candler, the Director of Digital Marketing Strategy at LA-based non-profit organization The Film...
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MovieMaker Editor’s Weekend Pick: Storm Surfers 3D by Rory Owen Delaney
Storm Surfers 3D delivers big wave-riding experience for moviegoers! This week’s MovieMaker Editor’s Weekend Pick is the Australian big wave surfing documentary, Storm Surfers 3D, directed by Justin...
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DIY Monday: Film Financing 101 by Rory Owen Delaney
Today it’s Film Financing 101 at MovieMaker. As part of our continuing DIY Monday series, we are sharing an excerpt from the 7th edition of Louise Levison’s book Filmmakers & Financing: Business...
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DIY Moviemaker: How to Build Sliders and Jibs
How to build sliders and jibs: building two moviemaker must-haves in one easy project. When MovieMaker’s managing editor, James Kaelan, challenged me to create a piece of gear using stuff from a...
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Trailblazer Tuesday: Nominate Companies for MovieMaker’s 2013 Indie-Friendly...
For this week’s Trailblazer Tuesday we’re changing things up! MovieMaker wants to know your favorite trailblazing, worth-your-wallet, indie-friendly businesses. Nominate your favorite film businesses...
View ArticleScreenwriting 101: Script Criteria Checklist
As you probably know, finishing (or finding) a script is only the beginning of any moviemaker’s odyssey from page to screen. With so many different funding paths and workflows once you are in...
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Working with a Music Supervisor: We Asked Liz Gallacher of Velvet Ears for...
While I am all for learning the art of filmmaking on the job, there are instances where prior formal education and training would save some big hassles in seeing the film out to market. One big...
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We Make Movies (Better): How I Learned to build an Avid Editing bay for under...
MovieMaker is reintroducing the We Makes Movies (Better) blog from our friends over at We Make Movies! Look for their brilliant, practical advice straight from the front lines of film – now coming at...
View ArticleHow to Crowdfund, Really: An Actionable Timeline
Emily Best, founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, explains why crowdfunding is more about the crowd than the funding, especially if you want to build a moviemaking career – with a strategy timeline for a...
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DIY Monday: A Guide to Social Media Movie Promotion, Part One
Everyone knows a good marketing campaign needs a social media component, but are you really using it to its maximum potential? For the latest installment of her DIY blog, Sheri Candler spells out...
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We Make Movies (Better): iZotope RX 3 Turns Picture Editors into Audio...
We Make Movies’ Sam Mestman reviews the iZotope RX 3 for this week’s DIY Monday blog post. Okay, so full disclosure here: I’m not really an audio guy. I’ve watched a couple of tutorials, and I kind of...
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DIY Monday: A Guide to Social Media Movie Promotion, Part Two by Sheri Candler
Everyone knows a good marketing campaign needs a social media component, but are you really using it to its maximum potential? Two weeks ago, Sheri Candler taught us how to ramp up the impact of your...
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DIY Monday: WeVideo Brings Cloud Editing to the Masses
The Youtube era has undoubtedly ushered in a new generation of storytellers. Timothy Rhys explores the vision of WeVideo, an affordable new cloud-based editing program, by speaking to CEO Jostein...
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We Make Movies (Better): Inside the Distributor’s Mind with Precious Hilton...
Securing distribution is that final nail in the construction project of making a movie—but it’s so hard to tell what exactly goes through the minds of a potential buyer. We Make Movies...
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DIY Monday: Complete Works‘ Journey to the Small Screen
Complete Works, produced by Kingdom for a Horse Productions, is a web series that recently premiered on Hulu. Here, producer Giancarlo Balarezo talks about how the team pitched, cold-called and...
View ArticleWisdom: Sol Negrin on Teaching Cinematography
Veteran cinematographer Sol Negrin, ASC understands the challenges of bringing cinematography from the set to the classroom. Now a professor at New York’s Five Towns College, Negrin’s six-decade-long...
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