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An Investor’s Perspective - Comments (0)
How to Avoid Pitfalls in State-Sponsored Film Incentives - Comments (0)
Packaging and Casting Agents - Comments (0)
Where The Money Is - Comments (0)
The Art of the Producer (more than finding the money) - Comments (0)
Hollywood Now Serving Cajun - Comments (3)
Purchasing Literary Property For Film - Comments (1)
Protecting Film Investors - Comments (0)
European Film Funds and Grants - Comments (0)
Financial Accounting & Responsibility for the Film Company - Comments (0)

Attachments

Packaging and Casting Agents - Comments (0)

Contracts and Law

Purchasing Literary Property For Film - Comments (1)
Financial Accounting & Responsibility for the Film Company - Comments (0)

Funding Plans

Business Plan Mistakes - Comments (0)
Financing the Production Company - Comments (4)

General Financing

Where The Money Is - Comments (0)
Head vs. Gut - Comments (0)
Use Caution with Personal Debt Film Financing - Comments (0)
Alternative Funding Methods - Comments (0)
Studios And Independent Financing Options - Comments (0)

Grants

European Film Funds and Grants - Comments (0)

Investors

An Investor’s Perspective - Comments (0)
Protecting Film Investors - Comments (0)
Dealing With Investors - Comments (0)
What To Keep and Avoid in the Investors’ Package - Comments (0)

Producing

The Art of the Producer (more than finding the money) - Comments (0)

Tax Breaks

How to Avoid Pitfalls in State-Sponsored Film Incentives - Comments (0)
Hollywood Now Serving Cajun - Comments (3)

Distribution

Redefining Digital Content Distribution - Comments (0)
Indie sector waiting for digital revolution - Comments (1)
Sony is paving the way for 4k exhibition - Comments (1)
Deeje Cooley from Adobe Media Player - Comments (0)
MobMov Guerrilla Drive-ins - Comments (0)
Some Festival Advice for Filmmakers - Comments (0)
Audience Building Tools - Comments (0)
No Distribution Models For Independent Films? - Comments (0)
Interview with the Director of Marketing at TurnHere - Comments (0)
The Taste of Others - Comments (1)

Film Festivals

Some Festival Advice for Filmmakers - Comments (0)
From Here to Awesome: Film Festival - Comments (0)
Realistic strategy for the sale and distribution of your film. - Comments (0)

Foreign Distribution

How to Get Foreign Distribution For Your Film - Comments (0)

General Distribution

Indie sector waiting for digital revolution - Comments (1)
Sony is paving the way for 4k exhibition - Comments (1)

Internet

Redefining Digital Content Distribution - Comments (0)
Interview with the Director of Marketing at TurnHere - Comments (0)
Cult classics take on the blockbusters - Comments (0)
Indie Film Vanishing From Theaters, Flourishing Online - Comments (0)
The Long Tail - Chris Anderson - Comments (0)
Hollywood’s Digital Graduation - Comments (0)
Navigating the Digital Divide - Comments (0)

Marketing

MobMov Guerrilla Drive-ins - Comments (0)
Audience Building Tools - Comments (0)
The Taste of Others - Comments (1)
Interview With Stephen Burdge - Film Poster Designer - Comments (0)
Generate Custom Film Festival Laurel Leaves - Comments (0)
Movie Merchandising & Product Placement - Comments (0)
7 Fool-proof indie film marketing tactics - Comments (0)
Design a Sin City Style Poster - Comments (1)
Too Much Hype Backfires - Comments (0)
Designing Cover Artwork for an Indie Film - Comments (0)

Ratings

The MPAA Thinks You’re Stupid - Comments (0)

Self Distribution

Deeje Cooley from Adobe Media Player - Comments (0)
No Distribution Models For Independent Films? - Comments (0)
How to Get Your Indie Film on iTunes - Comments (0)
No Film Distributor? Then D.I.Y. - Comments (1)
The Realities of DIY Filmmaking - Comments (0)
When the Audience Takes Control - Comments (0)
Distribution in the New Age - Comments (0)
Sites that Help Filmmakers Make Money - Comments (0)
John August’s on the “death” of independent film - Comments (0)
View from the Distribution Side - Comments (0)

Selling Your Film

Sample Film Sales Estimates - Comments (0)
Delivery Hell or The Hangover After The Party - Comments (0)

Featured Videos

Francis Ford Coppola talks about stealing - Comments (0)
A Fair(y) Use Tale - Comments (0)
180 Degree Rule - Comments (0)
Alfred Hitchcock: Classic Interview - Comments (0)
Short Film about Movies by Errol Morris - Comments (0)
JJ Abrams: The mystery box - Comments (0)
Filmmaking Techniques - Comments (0)

General

Malcolm Gladwell on learning from spaghetti sauce - Comments (0)
How to Get Bruce Campbell in Your Movie - Comments (2)
The Incredible Quantum of Solace - Comments (1)
Scene by Scene - Woody Allen - Comments (0)
Tales from the Crypt: “You, Murderer” - Comments (0)
Roger Corman - Poe actors - Comments (0)
REVIEW: Saw V - Comments (0)
Why certain blockbusters blow your mind - Comments (0)
Horror Filmmaking: From Script to Scream - Comments (1)
Holographic Interface - Comments (1)

Featured

Horror Filmmaking: From Script to Scream - Comments (1)
202 Sony Vegas Tutorials - Comments (2)
202 Final Cut Pro Tutorials - Comments (2)
202 DIY Filmmaking Tutorials - Comments (8)
101 Essential Filmmaker Sites - Comments (2)
FilmmakerIQ.com Launches! - Comments (2)

Film Reviews

REVIEW: Saw V - Comments (0)

Filmmaking 360

Why certain blockbusters blow your mind - Comments (0)
Horror Movie Cliches - Comments (0)
Building a Spectacular Spec Reel - Comments (0)
The Lost Films of Orson Welles - Comments (0)
How Criterion Hones Its Restoration Magic for HD - Comments (0)
Roger Ebert: How to read a movie - Comments (0)
Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes - Comments (0)
Financing for Indie Studios Alive and Well - Comments (0)
Rethinking the Music Video - Comments (3)
“Hardware Wars” Producer Michael Wiese - Comments (0)

Interviews

How to Get Bruce Campbell in Your Movie - Comments (2)
Scene by Scene - Woody Allen - Comments (0)
Roger Corman - Poe actors - Comments (0)
Wired’s 2.5 hour interview with Charlie Kaufman - Comments (0)
Charlie Rose - “W.” - Comments (0)
Monitor - Alfred Hitchcock - Comments (0)
Quentin Tarantino - Hollywood’s boy wonder - Comments (0)
Clive Barker - A to Z of horror - Comments (1)
Scene by Scene - Woody Allen - Comments (0)
BBC Arena - Orson Welles - Comments (0)

Off Topic

Malcolm Gladwell on learning from spaghetti sauce - Comments (0)
Holographic Interface - Comments (1)
The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought - Comments (0)
The Century Of The Self - Comments (0)
Windows Media Center on a Leopard network - Comments (0)
8 hacks to make Firefox ridiculously fast - Comments (0)
Subprime Mortgage Crisis Accurately Explained - Comments (0)
Sept. 19, 1982: Can’t You Take a Joke? :-) - Comments (1)
Assume the Position - Comments (0)
iHologram - iPhone application - Comments (0)

Outtakes

The Incredible Quantum of Solace - Comments (1)
Tales from the Crypt: “You, Murderer” - Comments (0)
The Dark Bailout - Comments (0)
James Earl Jones Recites The Alphabet - Comments (3)
Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man - Comments (0)
Historic Blockbuster Museum - Comments (0)
Friday 13th Part 3 with Laugh Track - Comments (1)
Trey Parker interviewed by Lloyd Kaufman - Comments (0)
Roger Ebert responds to “Disaster Movie” fan - Comments (0)
Man in the Box: “Screenplay” - Comments (0)

Sites of the Week

Sites of the Week: DIY Distribution Companies - Comments (0)

Trailers

Righteous Kill - Trailer No. 1 - Comments (0)
Bangkok Dangerous - Trailer No. 1 - Comments (0)
The Fall - Comments (0)

Post-production

How to Create a Portal in After Effects - Comments (0)
‘3-D sound’ Unveiled - Comments (0)
Unlocking Chroma Keys - Comments (0)
Adobe CS4: The Next Tier, Part 1 - Comments (0)
Head Explosion After Effects Tutorial - Comments (3)
Mario Fireball Tutorial using Adobe After Effects - Comments (0)
Avid DS 10 Speeds Creative Hi-Res Online Process - Comments (0)
A Production Premium: Adobe Creative Suite 4 - Comments (1)
Preventing Plosives - Comments (0)
Hit by car effect using Sony Vegas - Comments (0)

Credits

Death of the Title Sequence - Comments (0)

Digital Effects

How to Create a Portal in After Effects - Comments (0)
Unlocking Chroma Keys - Comments (0)
Head Explosion After Effects Tutorial - Comments (3)
Mario Fireball Tutorial using Adobe After Effects - Comments (0)
Hit by car effect using Sony Vegas - Comments (0)
Bullet Holes & Muzzle Flashes with After Effects - Comments (0)
Ground Breaking Video Editing Technology - Comments (8)
Kamehameha After Effects Tutorial - Comments (0)
Final Cut Pro 6: Keyframing Text - Comments (0)
After Effects & Green Screen Footage Tutorial - Comments (0)

DVD Authoring

DVD Authoring 101 - Comments (1)

Editing

Adobe CS4: The Next Tier, Part 1 - Comments (0)
Avid DS 10 Speeds Creative Hi-Res Online Process - Comments (0)
A Production Premium: Adobe Creative Suite 4 - Comments (1)
Rendering for Youtube in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 - Comments (2)
Cutting a Montage - Comments (0)
Ken Burns Style Moving Still Pictures - Comments (1)
The Joy of Interlacing - Comments (1)
David Fincher on Final Cut Studio - Comments (1)
Adobe Officially Unveiling CS4 on September 23rd - Comments (1)
We’ll Fix it in Post - Comments (0)

Music

Copyright: Music, Composers and Performers - Comments (0)
Anatomy of a Film Music Agreement - Comments (0)
Quentin Tarantino - Use of Music - Comments (0)
EU moves to free up music rights - Comments (0)
The Future of Music: Copy Rights and Wrongs - Comments (0)
How To Acquire Music For Films - Comments (1)

Sound Design

Preventing Plosives - Comments (0)
Designing A Movie For Sound - Comments (0)
The Free Sound Project - Comments (1)
Finding Sound FX - Comments (0)
Selling it With Sound - Comments (0)
Worldizing: a sound design concept by Walter Murch - Comments (0)
Fundamentals of Sample Rate - Comments (0)
The man who brings movies to life - Comments (0)
Editing Dialogue - Comments (0)
Skywalker Sound: The Making of a Movie Soundtrack - Comments (0)

Soundtrack Design

‘3-D sound’ Unveiled - Comments (0)

Pre-production

Early Star Wars Storyboards - Comments (0)
The Art of Workflow - Comments (1)
3 Sample Film Budgets - Comments (1)
Disney: The Art of Storyboarding - Comments (0)
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video - Comments (1)
What Can and Can’t Be Visible on Set - Comments (1)
Storyboarding - 4 Minute Film School - Comments (0)
Storyboarding: AFI’s Lights, Camera, Education! - Comments (0)
Production Contract Checklist - Comments (0)
Deal Memos - Comments (0)

Budgeting

3 Sample Film Budgets - Comments (1)
An Overview of the Film Budget - Comments (1)
WARNING: This Budget Could Be Hazardous to Your Film - Comments (0)

Casting Directors

How do you become a casting director? - Comments (0)

Contracts and Law

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video - Comments (1)
What Can and Can’t Be Visible on Set - Comments (1)
Production Contract Checklist - Comments (0)
Deal Memos - Comments (0)
Negotiating Employment Agreements - Comments (0)

Storyboarding

Early Star Wars Storyboards - Comments (0)
Disney: The Art of Storyboarding - Comments (0)
Storyboarding - 4 Minute Film School - Comments (0)
Storyboarding: AFI’s Lights, Camera, Education! - Comments (0)
Storyboard Templates - Comments (0)

Workflow

The Art of Workflow - Comments (1)

Production

Musings on the Art of Cinematography - Comments (0)
Halo Armor - DIY Master Chief - Comments (0)
10 Tips for Better Audio in Digital Video Production - Comments (1)
Understanding TIME CODE - Comments (1)
Sony’s HVR-Z7U and HVR-S270U - Comments (0)
A Close Look at an Invisible Microphone - Comments (0)
Production Notes: Canon and Nikon Put On THE BIG SQUEEZE - Comments (0)
Makeup Secrets of Horror Pictures (circa 1933) - Comments (0)
Gatling Gun Arm Costume - Comments (1)
Good Shooting Guide: The Basic Principles. - Comments (0)

Audio

10 Tips for Better Audio in Digital Video Production - Comments (1)
A Close Look at an Invisible Microphone - Comments (0)
Location Sound: The Basics and Beyond - Comments (0)
Choosing a Shotgun Microphone - Comments (0)
Microphones: The Proximity Effect - Comments (1)

Cinematography

Musings on the Art of Cinematography - Comments (0)
Understanding TIME CODE - Comments (1)
Sony’s HVR-Z7U and HVR-S270U - Comments (0)
Production Notes: Canon and Nikon Put On THE BIG SQUEEZE - Comments (0)
Good Shooting Guide: The Basic Principles. - Comments (0)
Using a Rubber Band for a Smooth Pan Shot - Comments (1)
Shutter Speed - Comments (0)
Instructions for DIY Camera Boom - Comments (0)
DIY Steadicam - Flying Camera Support - Comments (1)
Framing and Composition - Comments (0)

Costume Design

Halo Armor - DIY Master Chief - Comments (0)
Gatling Gun Arm Costume - Comments (1)

Directing

Visual Language of Schindler’s List - Comments (0)
Citizen Kane Commentaries by Roger Ebert - Comments (0)
Andrei Tarkovski Advice For Young Directors - Comments (0)

Effects and Stunts

The color of blood: A study in scarlet - Comments (0)
Blood & Bullets for No-Budget movies - Comments (0)
Indiana Jones Face Melt Effect - Comments (0)

General Production

NextWaveTV: Inexpensive Beginner Equipment - Comments (1)
Turns on a Turntable - Comments (0)
NAB: Million Dollar Look on a Thousand Dollar Budget - Comments (1)

Green Screen

Drawless Animation: 4 Minute Film School - Comments (0)
Crawl through a TV like in “The Ring” - Comments (0)
Technology of Chromakey - Comments (0)
Green Screens and Ham - Comments (0)

Lighting

Light it Right! Quick Tips for Lighting Video - Comments (0)
Introduction to Lighting and Grip - Comments (0)
Lighting Infinite White - Comments (0)
Light Kit Must Haves - Comments (2)
Light Right: 5 Top Tips for Lighting - Comments (1)
Film & Video Lighting for low-budgets - Comments (0)

Makeup

Makeup Secrets of Horror Pictures (circa 1933) - Comments (0)

Production Design

How to Be a Production Designer - Comments (0)
Sweeney Todd Production Design - Comments (0)
Interviewing Syd Mead - Comments (0)

Screenwriting

Excerpt from “Your Screenplay Sucks!: 100 Ways to Make it Great” - Comments (1)
Situation Based Writing - Comments (1)
Fudging the Page Count - Comments (0)
Screenwriting: Lean and Mean - Comments (0)
Finding Inspiration in the Cookie Aisle - Comments (0)
Minor Characters Don’t Need Major Introductions - Comments (0)
How to Write Badly to Write Better - Comments (0)
The purpose of drama, and its relationship to Cameron Diaz’s ass - Comments (0)
Giving The Audience A Great Ride - Comments (0)
How to write a movie - Comments (0)

Concept

Choosing the Right Idea for a Film or Book - Comments (0)
Beachcombing - Comments (0)
Strange Attractor - Comments (0)

Dialogue

Action vs. Dialogue - Comments (0)
Writing Great Dialogue - Comments (0)

General Screenwriting

Situation Based Writing - Comments (1)
Finding Inspiration in the Cookie Aisle - Comments (0)
How to Write Badly to Write Better - Comments (0)
The purpose of drama, and its relationship to Cameron Diaz’s ass - Comments (0)
How to write a movie - Comments (0)
The Thriller - Comments (0)
Tips for writers: Go away, Internet - Comments (1)
Tales from the Digital Frontier: Breakthroughs in Storytelling - Comments (0)
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - Comments (1)
Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses by Mark Twain - Comments (0)

Legal & Copyright

Are Sequels Fair Game? - Comments (0)
Real Life Story Rights Q&A - Comments (0)
Protecting your Script - Comments (0)

Online Scripts

Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” Illustrated Screenplay - Comments (0)

Outlines

DAVID GOYER: Outlining Your Screenplay - Comments (0)

Rewriting

Excerpt from “Your Screenplay Sucks!: 100 Ways to Make it Great” - Comments (1)
Screenwriting: Lean and Mean - Comments (0)
Scenes to Cut, Those to Save - Comments (0)
How Do I Critique My Own Work? - Comments (0)
Paring Down your Script - Comments (0)
Writing is Rewriting - Comments (0)

Screenplay Format

Fudging the Page Count - Comments (0)
How to Use Shot Headings - Comments (0)
The New Spec Style - Comments (0)
How do I Format Dialogue by a Character that has a Double Identity? - Comments (0)
A Few Notes on Formatting - Comments (0)
6 Screenplay Formatting Articles - Comments (0)
Making Screenplays Vertical - Comments (0)

Selling Your Script

Writing Successful Query Letters - Comments (0)
An Agent, An Agent, My Kingdom for an Agent - Comments (0)
The Eight Steps to a Powerful Pitch - Comments (0)
A Checklist to Help Sell Your Screenplay - Comments (0)
Do You Have to Live in Hollywood? - Comments (0)
Ten Tips For Being Good in a Room - Comments (0)
23 Steps to a Feature Film Sale - Comments (0)
Breaking In - Through Hollywood’s Back Door - Comments (0)
A Foot in the Door - Comments (0)

Structure

Minor Characters Don’t Need Major Introductions - Comments (0)
Giving The Audience A Great Ride - Comments (0)
StoryWeaving - Avoiding the Genre Trap - Comments (1)
The Art of Plotting - Comments (0)
Dramatic Irony - Comments (1)
Breaking the Screenwriting Rules - Comments (0)
Why ‘American Beauty’ Works: Focus on the Use of Symbols - Comments (0)
Plot Reversals Shown in Scene - Comments (0)
What’s Wrong With The Three Act Structure - Comments (0)
Cinematic Storytelling: Writing for the Unconscious - Comments (0)

Theory

Aristotle’s Poetics for Screenwriters - Comments (1)

Writing Low Budget

Tip Sheet for Low-Budget Film Scripts - Comments (1)