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Written by Christopher Kelly, Founder at ProductionCrate.com Filmmaking has gotten easier, cheaper, and more accessible for countless creators. When I was a student the DSLR revolution was just barely kicking off. We were still filming with camcorders for most of our projects. Now both the hardware and the software available to student filmmakers is comparable… …
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By Bart Weiss As we begin Summer Semester 2020, the universe and the university have been communicating though Zoom and its brethren since the COVID-19 situation and social distancing started in March 2020. We have all been on Zoom, and some of you may have used Zoom to make a documentary. (By the way, make… …
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By Fred Ginsburg, CAS, Ph. D. The first semester of having to teach online is over. It was a unique experience both for faculty as well as students. Some were able to handle it fairly well; we are a profession of technically adept filmmakers, after all. But with the high probability of the Fall… …
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By Bart Weiss The Spring of 2020 was quite an experience for film students. Students, admin, and faculty did our best to shift on the fly during the COVID-19 situation. As I write this article, we are in Phase 3 of reopening the state of Texas. Students, admin, and faculty are now starting to… …
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Written by Shane Stanley What’s essential to being a good director? First and foremost, its passion. Regardless of what you want to believe, filmmaking will be one of the most seductive, yet volatile and deceptive relationships you will ever grapple with. I’ve quipped it’s my “forbidden fruit” or “fatal attraction” because of the pleasure… …
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“Hints of Jaws and… the haunting mysteries of ‘Stranger Things’ …. ‘Beast’ is a moving, mysterious [pilot]…that immediately draws to mind prominent storytellers like Steven Spielberg…” – Indiewire In Chapter 1 of this award-winning episodic short, BEAST, by Ben Strang, a grieving teenager recruits the help of a fisherman to figure out what happened to his father after a mysterious… …
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From film festivals to school video clubs, everything has become a virtual experience today as the entire world is facing the threat of a pandemic. While we’re practicing social distancing and doing our part to keep ourselves and our community members healthy, creativity and learning can still flourish. We all may need to step up… …
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A new book called The Virtual Ticket is now available on Amazon here. The book is all about “How to Host Private Live Streams and Virtual Events” which can help students raise money for their schools and other projects. Live streaming has become an amazing way to host engaging fundraisers. A chapter in the book… …
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by Neil Landau A paradox exists in the writers’ room. You need to absorb information and find your own way through observing how other people behave in the room, reading draft after draft to see how they evolve and come up from that early writer’s draft through network notes and the process of refinement. If… …
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by David Worth The phrase, “new paradigm,” seems to be everywhere today in post production, in capture, in delivery, even in distribution. Exactly what is a paradigm? The dictionary defines it this way: paradigm noun … a typical example or pattern of something; a model : There is a new paradigm for public art in… …
