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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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Adapting Indie Fiction: A resource for finding the right story for your film
by Christopher Robinson and Carmiel Banasky | Published December 18, 2012 You’ve been working on your first script for a year and a half. Maybe you got a lukewarm reception at your first staged reading...
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Let Fury Have the Hour: A Lesson in Making Fire and Creative Response
by Antonino D’Ambrosio | Published January 17, 2013 “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...
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The Happy Hustler: A lesson in creative budgeting by Sam Mestman
Cinematographer on the roof by Blessing Yen. If the rules don’t make sense, a hustler (and every independent moviemaker must be a hustler) knows to disregard the rulebook. The film industry stacks the...
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We Make Movies (Better): Five steps to making your movie with zero money by...
Prologue This is the article you’ve been waiting for. You have a movie that you’re aching to make but you can’t, because you have no money. This is nonsense. I’m here to tell you that actually, you...
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We Make Movies (Better): Why you need to seriously consider REDucation-X by...
While I have fond memories of film school, I also remember immense feelings of frustration. Why did I have to spend all of this damn time doing stuff that had nothing to do with filmmaking? Why did I...
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We Make Movies (Better): A Final Cut Pro X/RED feature film workflow, Part 1...
Part 01: Project Prep – How to properly bring in your RED footage and build your project in FCP X. It’s literally shocking that a product from Apple happens to be the best kept secret in post. Pretty...
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The Real Social Network: Creating documentary social action plans that work...
Whether you’re crafting a documentary, a non-fiction drama, or a fictional narrative feature, the potential to change the world is one of the most important driving forces behind any moviemaking. From...
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We Make Movies (Better): A Final Cut Pro X/RED feature film workflow, 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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And the Lord Declared: Let there be really high stakes! by Tara Samuel
Attention all Screenwriters, Graphic Novelists, Novelists-Afraid-Of-Screenwriting, and Waiters, Bankers, Accountants, Teachers, Custodians, Firefighters, Cashiers and Parking Lot Attendants who Dream...
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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...
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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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[Dogfish] Accelerating Independence: The world’s first film production...
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, rewrites...
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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Equal Writes: Screenwriting challenge announces semi-finalists vying for a...
Equal Writes, a screenwriting challenge founded by Duly Noted, Inc. and We Make Movies (and supported in part by MovieMaker) has closed the call for entries seeking, “intelligent, courageous stories...
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Martha Marcy May Marlene: Interiors Journal dissects the space of Sean...
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), Sean Durkin’s directorial debut makes extensive use of two locations: A farmhouse, where Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) lives before running away, and a lake house, where...
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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 by Jason Brubaker
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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