Today my MovieMaker magazine arrived from the states, an indie film rag that I subscribe to. Flicking through it, I noticed there was a roundup of film festivals, and saw that the Sedona Film Festival was included. You may know that we attended the Sedona Film Festival this year with Gone Fishing and it was [...]
Archive | June, 2009
Disaster Movie 2012 is a jaw dropper!
When I was at the PGA conference in LA a few weeks ago, I met with the visual effects team who were responsible for Roland Emmerich’s new global disaster epic ‘2012’. At the conference they gave a very entertaining and informative seminar on the visual effects for the film, and how they did some of [...]
Blast From The Past! The Thing From Beneath The Bed
I got an email yesterday from fellow film maker Jim Webber who had made a short film, which won an award at the IAC awards. After looking closely at the trophy, he noticed that in 1989, someone called Chris Jones had also won it for a film called ‘The Thing From Beneath The Bed’, and [...]
Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass UK in just over a week…
Hot on the heels of last weekends success with the shiny brand new workshop, Delivering Your Film to the Sales Agent, comes the original ‘classic’ Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass, the workshop that started it all. There have been over 1,000 graduates now, and I have held this workshop around the world over the past decade. [...]
Editing with Womble MPEG Video Wizard DVD
For some time now I have had a stack of DVD’s piling up on my desk, disks with clips on them that I need to rip and edit, usually from stuff from other festivals where I did some PR or the like. It’s just a big archiving job really. But getting the data of the [...]
Sales Delivery Schedule Workshop a HUGE success!
Wow. What a day. Last week I worked relentlessly to prepare the Delivering Your Film To The Sales Agent workshop. It was based on a ‘sales schedule’ I had been handed on a real ‘low budget’ feature film I had been consulting on only six weeks ago, so it was very fresh in my mind. [...]
Sales Agent Delivery Seminar Final Prop For Tomorrow
I am doing the final prep for tomorrows Delivering Your Film Seminar and I am delighted that we will have a packed house. I was afraid that as this is a stage at the end of production, most people would say ‘we will deal with that when we get to it…’ But it seems there [...]
The Devil Is In The Detail…
For the last few days I have been hunkered down, going through endless Sales and Distribution delivery contracts for the Delivering Your Film to The Sales Agent workshop this weekend. It’s been a mammoth task, unravelling ALL the DETAIL from the reams of documents and contracts I have been sifting through… and as we all [...]
Making delivery of your movie to the sales agents
I have been working all day on the Delivering Your Baby* (*that’s your film) seminar which I am running on Sunday at Ealing Studios. In conversation with various distributors and sales agents, I am struck at how hard it still is to make delivery of a film, especially in this day and age. It’s [...]
Piracy? Moviescope Article Hits My Inbox…
I am back in the UK and enjoying the fact that the weather here is about as good as it was in LA! The next feature for Moviescope landed on my desk today, an article I wrote about piracy, which sparked some debate when I discussed some of the principles on the blog (original post [...]
Leaving LaLa Land… for now…
I am sat at LAX airport, on my way back to the UK, writing this on my iPhone (good job I have 3 hours to kill as I have big fingers!), and reflecting on the whirlwind of last week here in LaLa Land. Starting with the PGA conference, where I met a plethora of big [...]
PGA Conference, The Digital Camera Roundup…
Great news! We just found out that we won both Best Short Film and Best Actor (for Bill Paterson) and the Staten Island, New York Film Festival. That, along with the PGA Award from last Sunday night, takes us past 30 international awards. Wow! So I promised I would do a round up of the [...]
PGA Conference Day 2
OK as promised, here is a roundup of Day 2 of the Produced by Conference. There were three sessions going on at any one time, so I could not get to everything. The morning kicked off at 9am with a look at mobile technology as a new media platform. The basic gist is that now [...]
Producers Guild Of America Producers Challenge Awards 2009
Day 2 of the Producers Guild Of America Conference had many highlights, meeting Clint Eastwood, seeing some of the original Star Wars films ‘dimensionalised’ into 3D, watching a side by side test of all the top digital cinema cameras…. But all the will have to wait as in the evening was the awards… And yes, [...]
Producers Guild Of America Conference Day 1
Jet lag gets me up at 5.45am, and I prepare for the PGA conference. At 8am, Andrew, who I am staying with drops me off at the Sony Studios where I collect my badge to get me into the conference, which is across the road in the main studio complex. As I walk down the [...]
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Johan Bergqvist: http://vimeo.com/22832980 This is a very early ...
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Andy Carslaw: I don't claim to have anywhere near as much exper...
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Does the National Minimum Wage (NMW) mean the end of micro budget film making the UK?
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BECTU debate and the National Minimum Wage…
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The phone rang, and from that moment, everything changed… PART 1
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The phone rang, and from that moment, everything changed… PART 3… The conclusion…
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Avid or Final Cut Pro X? Tips for setting up your first feature film cutting room.
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Should British Film Makers Capitalise on the British Brand?
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How to shoot your movie on Oxford Street (or other ridiculously public location)
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Do you need funding for your film?
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How to get MASSIVE results when you ask for help for your movie
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Avid or Final Cut Pro X? Tips for setting up your first feature film cutting room.
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