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‘Rocket fuel for the soul’… Feedback from The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass 2012

By on February 22, 2012 in Guerilla Film Makers Handbooks, Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass

It’s hard to put into words what I get out of the Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass. For me, the experience is exhilarating, challenging, moving, humbling but ultimately focussing… You see I may be the guy on the stage, but I am really just the focus for the passion, enthusiasm and creativity unleashed by 350 film [...]

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Wow! Well that happened! The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass

By on February 20, 2012 in Uncategorized

My throat aches, my muscles are seized up and may head pounds. But I feel FANTASTIC! The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass was an extraordinary success this year, anyone who was there will testify to the magical atmosphere. I am so exhausted right now I stall can’t think straight, but I just wanted to touch back [...]

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LIVE! Tweets and pictures from The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass 2012 #Gfilm

By on February 17, 2012 in Guerilla Film Makers Handbooks, Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass

Get live updates from the Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass 2012… Official hashtag is #GFilm // // ]]>//

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The Perfect Guerilla Film Makers Camera Kit For Under £1k

By on February 15, 2012 in Camera, Canon 5D, Canon 5D Mk2

A few weeks back I asked the film community ‘what would be the ideal camera kit for £1,000’. I was overwhelmed by amazing tips, ideas and site suggestions. And so I have compiled it here as part of The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass. While I did say that this was a camera kit for £1,000, [...]

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How to edit a trailer for your movie… by the guy who cuts trailers for movies!

By on February 13, 2012 in Marketing, Trailer

Over the weekend I was in touch (for top secret reasons) with film maker and trailer editor Ross Evison. It became apparent very quickly that Ross has a huge amount of experience cutting movie trailers, so I asked him to share his experience, and here it is… Hello Chris Jones blog, My name’s Ross Evison, [...]

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Final Call – The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass Nearly Sold Out

By on February 11, 2012 in Guerilla Film Makers Handbooks, Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass

Last year when I held the Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass I thought I would never be able to repeat that extraordinary experience – if you were there, you know what I am talking about.  The atmosphere was electric, partly because we had a packed house of 370 film makers. I was sure that if I [...]

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Working in Hollywood, free 2 hour podcast workshop

By on February 10, 2012 in Hollywood

Last December we hosted a special London Screenwriters’ Festival workshop on breaking into Hollywood, getting an agent and working with the studios. Andrew who ran the seminar lives in LA and his insights were extraordinary. Feedback for his workshop was consistently five star. Now you can get it free too by going here… http://www.hollywoodfieldtrip.com/free-seminar/ What [...]

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Why Iron Sky could NEVER have been made without crowdfunding

By on February 8, 2012 in Crowd Funding

You can see the pitch meeting… ‘At the end of World War 2, Nazis left the earth and built a base on the dark side of the moon… and now they are coming back to invade…’ I suspect that most writers or film makers would have been greeted with ‘Nazis from the moon?…OK… what else [...]

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How to raise $100,000 crowd funding…

By on February 6, 2012 in Canon 5D, Canon 5D Mk2, Guerilla Film Makers Handbooks, Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass

Friday Feb 17th, and as part of the Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass, I will be running an evening pre-registration seminar with David Reynolds of Realm Media. Many of you will know Dave as he is the face and driving force behind a series of uber successful no-budget productions such as Zomblies, as well as his [...]

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Meet The Film Makers… How To Produce A Micro Budget Horror that MAKES MONEY and sells WORLDWIDE

By on February 6, 2012 in Guerilla Film Makers Handbooks, Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass

Find out how Brit Film makers with no track record made a killer psycho horror and released it worldwide. Case study: Panic Button When Friday 17th Feb (at the pre registration for The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass) Where: London School of Film, Media & Performance, Regent’s College Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4NS Tickets: [...]

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Painting on a snowy Sunday

By on February 6, 2012 in New projects

While most of you where in bed and snug on Sunday morning, the newly formed LSF Decorating Team hit the LSF office and managed to paint the whole room by the time the sun was setting. It is now all shiny and clean, hoorah! The main reason fort this is that we are subletting out [...]

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CrowdFunding 101, ‘The Urn’

By on February 4, 2012 in Crowd Funding

‘Urn’ is a short film being made by a team of film makers who met at the Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass last year, headed up by actress, and now producer, Francesca De Luca… Their IndieGoGo campaign ends in the next few days and I asked her to share what she has learned on her crowdfudning [...]

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Avid Studio v iMovie on the iPad… And the winner is?

By on February 4, 2012 in Editing

Last week, film editing heavyweight Avid released their iPad app, Avid Studio, taking on Apple’s own iMovie app head on. I used iMovie last year for a family wedding video where I shot on my iPhone, edited on iPad and premiered for the family during the wedding dinner, blog post here. It was a real [...]

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Should British Film Makers Capitalise on the British Brand?

By on February 3, 2012 in Distribution

News that the top three films at the UK and Republic of Ireland Box Offfice ar all British is quite amazing. Check it out… Top 10 biggest films in the UK and Republic of Ireland in 2011 1 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – £73.09 million 2 – The King’s Speech [...]

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How to shoot your movie on Oxford Street (or other ridiculously public location)

By on February 1, 2012 in Crowd Funding, Shooting

Yesterday I shot the pitch video for the crowdfunding campaign for my next feature film. The project is under wraps just now, and I am still working out the details of our plan of attack for the campaign. Also, I am not directing this film, I am producing, which will free me to spend time [...]

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