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DIY Monday: Complete Works‘ Journey to the Small Screen by Giancarlo Balarezo
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...
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Mixing Mediums: On the Differences in Directing Shorts, Features and TV by...
What’s the difference between making a short film versus a feature film versus an episode of television? For David Greenspan – director of the Palme d’Or-winning short “Beancake,” the upcoming feature...
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She’s Just Not That Into You: The 10 Most Important Lessons To Know Before...
This Wisdom Wednesday, producer Randy Bobbitt (It’s Gawd) shares invaluable lessons he’s learned about the SAG signatory process. Engaging SAG can be a tricky process, but here, Bobbitt provides the...
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Alternative Bedfellows: Gathr’s New Fund Puts Crowdfunded Films in Theaters...
Even low-budget indie films funded on Kickstarter will have a shot at theatrical distribution. Demand-based theatrical screening organizer, Gathr, is specifically targeting crowd-funded films via a new...
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One Setting, One Hour: How Audrey Pulled Off a Single Location by Dean Pollack
Filmmaker and editor Dean Pollack’s work has appeared everywhere from Bravo and Hulu to Adult Swim. He just completed his second directorial effort, the feature film Audrey, which traces a single hour...
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Screenwriting Refresher Course: 10 Fundamental Things to Remember for Your...
You’ve got this clever little screenplay you’ve been working really hard on for some time now. Recently, though, you’ve started to feel like maybe you’ve reached an impasse–the easy brilliance you...
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Tech Review: On Set with Blackmagic’s Cinema Camera by Frederick Schroeder
A working cinematographer puts Blackmagic’s Cinema Camera through its paces, finding it a superb deal for less than $2,000. This article appears in our upcoming Winter 2014 issue of MovieMaker, hitting...
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DIY Monday: WeVideo Brings Cloud Editing to the Masses by Timothy Rhys
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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A Quick Primer on Music Licensing and How to Crowdsource it by Vince Lynch
This article by Vince Lynch, founder of online music community Synkio, appeared in our 2013 Complete Guide to Making Movies special issue earlier this year. In monastic life, silence is golden. In the...
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Wisdom: Telling the Truth Without Paying for It
Fact or fiction? For this week’s DIY Monday MovieMaker is exploring how to limit your liability when adapting a true story for film (telling the truth without paying for it), which as history tells us...
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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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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 One by Sheri Candler
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): It Takes a Village by Bill Kinder
Bill Kinder, indie moviemaker, reflects on the value of “Do It Ourselves” collaboration as he heads to AFM with his newly-completed feature, White Rabbit. A few years back, I sensed, almost in a...
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Halloween Retro-SPOOK-tive: Cheap Effects by Katherine Brodsky
Blood, gore, monsters (and more blood). It is Halloween season so pick your poison and get settled in, because MovieMaker is here to teach you all about the effects that heighten the scare factor in...
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DIY Monday: Success in Digital Distribution By Sheri Candler
In this month’s DIY Monday blog installment, Sheri Candler finds that digital distribution success doesn’t grow on trees, with her conversation with the minds behind VOD aggregator The Orchard....
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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