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From Comic Book to Catharsis By Neil Landau There’s a historical pattern around the popularity of the superhero—he or she is most needed during dark times in the real world. In Captain America: The First Avenger, when Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans) visits the US troops to boost morale, it’s more than mere fiction; it’s… …
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By Scott Spears Filmmaking is collaborative art and at all levels what makes that collaboration work is networking. At the local level, outside of cities with major film production, a film club (or if you prefer organization) is one way to bring the community together to help create relationships so you can build better crews… …
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Shane Stanley www.shanestanley.net Shane Stanley is a lifer. His career began in front of the camera at 9 months old before becoming a two-time Emmy Award winning filmmaker and launching his own company, Visual Arts Entertainment. Best known for Executive Producing the #1 Box Office hit, Gridiron Gang for SONY Pictures starring Dwayne “The Rock”… …
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Includes a short list of things for the cinematographers to carry in their kit. By Thomas Ackerman, ASC Driving Interstate 40 to North Carolina in August of 2008 was a stupefying experience, 2,528 miles of tedium as I rarely left the main road. Without the distraction of touristy side trips, there was more than… …
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By David Worth, MA On today’s seemingly endless 24/7 social media, there’s an overabundance of information about the art and craft of filmmaking. Anyone who’s made any type of a production from a short film to a web series, seems to be an instant authority on the subject of filmmaking. However, there only seems to… …
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Daniel Denk Czech Republic Can you tell us about your body of work? I am a music composer from Prague, Czech Republic. I started doing music about 10 years ago in a local band playing electric guitar, which I pretty much do until now. Throughout the years I started feeling that I would like to… …
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Current Projects I currently have 20 CDs on sale under the name Aftershock. One on sale under the name Deep Blue. I’m working on a film now called Mars 2055. I’m doing sound design for an IMDb credit. Film scoring and music composing process For film scoring, I take a look at the film and… …
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Ideas to Start By Jared Isham Getting your film made, for many, can be packed with fear and uncertainty. The obstacles, no matter how much experience you have, are great but the good news is that the bar to entry is getting lower. At this particular time in the history of filmmaking, the excuses as… …
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By Shane Stanley It seems more often than not, the pressure put on us filmmakers is self-imposed. Stress, bad attitude and anxiety seem to run rampant during production, and I believe it’s often because of the tone the director sets when he’s heading into battle – and more so when the bullets start flying and… …
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5 Important Tips By Pamela Jaye Smith & Monty Hayes McMillan Pamela and Monty attended the University of Texas at Austin film school. They’ve spent decades working on all sorts of media in Hollywood and around the world, including the Arctic, the Andes, and SE Asia. Here are some tips to make working in… …
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By Scott Essman After beginning his career as director of the Computer Graphics Lab in Long Island at the New York Institute of Technology in 1975, Ed Catmull became vice-president of northern California-based Lucasfilm’s fledgling computer division in 1979. By the time of Lucasfilm’s sale of the computer division to Steve Jobs in 1986, it… …
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By David Landau There are some people who have been writing on the internet, in articles, and even in a very, poorly written book, that instead of spending money on tuition for film school, you should just use that money to make your own movie. That’s almost the same as saying, instead of spending money… …
