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7 Blockchain Development Companies Reshaping Film Production
A blockchain is a shared digital ledger. It stores records across a network of computers. In film, blockchain companies build systems to track film rights, manage contracts, and record payments. Filmmakers can struggle to raise funds and track film earnings. They may also…
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An Unexpected Twist: A Halloween Short Film Competition Winner
Everybody loves a good twist. This time our horror competition theme was “An Unexpected Twist”. We wanted to see your original and creative one-minute films that spook and scare. The Winner JUNIO’S FIRST KISS View this post on Instagram Congratulations to the team! And huge…
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Seven Rooms. Seven Nightmares. Seven Days to Shoot.
Tomorrow’s Halloween, and we will celebrate the winners of our Raindance One-Minute Horror Short competition. They understand something every filmmaker should learn: you don’t need long to frighten someone. You need an idea that gets under their skin. For anyone ready to turn…
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Editing for Clients Between Your Own Films: How to Scope, Price and Protect Your Time
A lot of filmmakers pay for their own projects with someone else’s footage: a brand video, a wedding, a YouTube channel that needs a weekly edit. Client work keeps you cutting every day and gets paid. It also has a way of eating the time and energy that were meant for your film.…
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Captions vs Subtitles: The Accessibility Deliverables Festivals and Distributors Now Expect
“Subtitles” used to mean one file. Now a festival or distributor may ask for closed captions, open captions, SDH and audio description as well, each a separate deliverable. Here is what each one is, who asks for it, and a checklist you can work through before your film goes out.…
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Halloween Horrors in Broad Daylight
Everyone loves a good Halloween-themed horror, preferably set in the dead of night in a haunted house, midnight graveyard or similar deserted location. But what about horror films set mainly in summer, in broad daylight or crowded situations? Nina Romain looks into the true…
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5 Tips for Filming the Best Slow Motion Footage
“Slow motion can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, revealing layers of meaning.” Stanley Kubrick I’m a specialist slow-motion cinematographer and own a Freefly Ember 5K, a camera designed specifically for capturing super slow-motion footage for film and television. It…
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I Spent 20 Years in Animation. AI Reminded Me Why I Started
I’m a child of the 80s. I grew up watching Tom and Jerry reruns, and later became massively inspired by Aardman, particularly Wallace and Gromit’s A Grand Day Out. At home, we had the mighty Acorn Electron computer with all 16kb of power, complete with a cassette tape player for…
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Cutting a Trailer People Actually Finish: What YouTube Retention Teaches Indie Filmmakers
A lot of films reach a festival without a trailer, or with one cut in the last week from whatever was left on the drive. Then it goes up on YouTube, Instagram and the festival page, and most people watch a few seconds and keep scrolling. A trailer has one job: get the viewer to…
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New film pre-production player in town: CineLog
CineLog is a film pre-production tool that keeps the script, breakdown, shot list, storyboards, shooting schedule, and call sheets in one project, on every device the crew carries. It’s the newest name in a category that has mostly been built around per-seat pricing and apps…
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Who Signs Off? Feedback, Approvals and Picture Lock in Indie Post-Production
Most indie post-production schedules are built around work: assembly, rough cut, fine cut, picture lock, sound, colour, deliverables. Very few are built around decisions. Yet that is where the weeks disappear. The cut that sat with an executive producer for ten days. The…
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Forget Film School: 7 Lessons You Can Only Learn by Making Movies
A few years ago, I met a filmmaker carrying roughly $250,000 in student loans from USC. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. How do you launch a creative career with that kind of weight on your back? I’m not anti-education. I have a master’s degree in communication studies. But…