Using the stablilization feature in Avid Media Composerby Emily Price
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“The Wingspan Arts Kids Film Festival features original films by young people from around the country — films made by kids, for kids — selected by a committee of young filmmakers, educators and industry professionals. The festival encourages creative and intelligent filmmaking, while providing kids with an opportunity to exhibit their work in a professional venue and to exchange cinematic ideas with both peers and experts. The Wingspan Arts Kids Film Festival will include ‘red carpet’ interviews with young filmmakers and panel discussions, where kids and industry pros share their views and ideas of the films.” Added on Oct 25, 2007 8:00 AM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20) Taking Criticism for Your Filmby Emily Price
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[via DigitalCamcorderNews] Added on Oct 10, 2007 12:00 PM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20) Find a crew with Actors and Crewby Emily PriceLooking for a crew for your next film? The newly launched ActorsandCrew.com is designed for bring actors and crew together with filmmakers. Users can create a profile with audio and video clips of their work that they can then use to submit to film and television job listings on the site. Posting a profile on the site is free but if you want to apply for jobs you'll have to shell out $19.95/mo to join the site. [via CinemaTech] Added on Oct 5, 2007 9:00 AM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20) Asheville REJECT film festival accepting submissionsby Emily Price
Added on Oct 2, 2007 8:00 AM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20) Tips on moviemaking from the greatsby Emily Price "A good movie is three good scenes, and no bad scenes"-Howard Hawkes Added on Aug 16, 2007 12:00 PM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20) SiCKO trailer coming to a building near youby Emily Price
Added on Jun 24, 2007 9:11 AM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20) Video of the Week: Excavating the Maya Muralby Richard Baguley Camcorders are all about recording rare and exciting moments, but this one is pretty incredible: Dave Pentecost was the videographer on an expedition in 2004 lead by Bill Saturno that excavated the earliest known Maya Mural, which some have described as "The Maya Sistine Chapel". It’s an incredible find, and Dave videoed the whole expedition, including the moment when the first parts of the 2,000 year old mural were unearthed. He’s put together a great video of the expedition here. We spoke to him about recording one of the great moments of modern archaeology...[More inside] Added on Dec 16, 2005 6:00 PM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20) Movie of the Week : Zombie Attack!by Richard Baguley Zombie movies are harder to make than you might think. If you don’t get the makeup and atmosphere right, your dramatic story of the undead attacking can turn into a comedy. Which is why this short zombie film by Dante Della Maggiore caught my eye: it’s a nicely put together movie that presents some scary images without looking crappy and clichéd. We spoke to Dante about creating the perfect movie and the problems of working with severed heads. Added on Oct 20, 2005 4:00 PM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20) Movie of the Week: Citizen Rescueby Richard Baguley Normally, I’d try and interview the filmmaker for the Movie of the Week, but I think this video by Jared Arsement that was submitted to Current TV speaks for itself. So, instead of listening to me talking about it, watch the video and then give some money to the Red Cross or Noah’s Wish (an organization working with abandoned animals in the New Orleans area).Added on Sep 9, 2005 7:00 PM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20) Hurricane Katrina From a Videographers Point of Viewby Richard Baguley By now, we’ve all seen the videos of Hurricane Katrina wreaking havoc on New Orleans. We’ve all been appalled by the truly terrifying aftermath of the storm that seems to have destroyed large parts of the city. But who captured this video? People like Douglas Kiesling did: while everyone else had either left New Orleans or was in hiding, he was on the streets capturing the storm on assignment for the Weather Channel and KSTP. You can see some of his videos on his blog here and read more about what he describes as “a professional videographers dream and nightmare”. We spoke to him about how he captured video of one of the worst storms in history…Added on Sep 2, 2005 10:00 AM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20) Video of the Week: The Rocketcamby Richard Baguley I’ve always had a fondness for model rockets, setting them off and watching them zoom off into the blue sky. And I’ve always wondered what it looked like from the rocket’s point of view, to watch the earth quickly recede. Fortunately, I don’t have to wonder anymore, because Matt Campbell found out: he took a CVS disposable camcorder, took it apart and mounted it inside the nose cone of a model rocket. The very impressive resulting videos show the launch from the rocket’s point of view. We spoke to him about his home-made rocketcam…Added on Aug 28, 2005 8:00 PM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20) Movie of the Week - Swimming With Sharksby Richard Baguley I found this movie when I was browsing through the new videos at YouTube, the new video hosting service that I wrote about here. It was posted by Kenny Howery, and adventurous soul who decided it might be fun to go swimming with Great White Sharks off the coast of South Africa. Although the video is short and kind of jerky, you do get a real sense of the environment. Small fish swim by, then a shadow appears out of the gloom: a great white that’s come to check out what the fuss is about. He (or she) swims by, obviously curious about these humans in a cage, then swims off into the murk. The video was taken with a digital camera, not a dedicated camcorder, but it shows that you can take great videos without carrying around lots of equipment. My only suggestions to improve the video would be to loose the audio (it doesn’t really add to the experience), and to perhaps add a second, slow motion version of when the shark passes by.
We spoke to Kenny Howery about cage diving with Great White Sharks… Added on Aug 19, 2005 4:00 PM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20) Movie of the Week: Star Wars Revelationsby Richard Baguley Episode III may have completed the cycle, but there are still plenty of Star Wars films out there that you haven’t seen. They come from a growing community of fan film makers who tell their own Jedi stories, from satires and comedies (like Troops, the original fan film that deals with the aftermath of the Empire’s attack on Luke’s home, and the excellent Pink Five, which details the adventures of a valley girl Jedi recruit under Yoda’s tutelage) to serious films that explore new aspects of the Star Wars universe. One of the best I’ve seen is Star Wars: Revelations, an excellent film that details the adventures of a renegade Jedi. It’s incredibly well put together, with direction and effects that wouldn’t look out of place in the original movies.Added on Aug 5, 2005 6:00 PM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20) Movie of the week: “Breaking” by Sam Bisbee/Tobias Perseby Richard Baguley Music videos tend to be great examples of excess: too many effects, too many cuts and way too many people who can’t dance, but think they can. The video to the song Breaking by Sam Bisbee is (at the bottom of the page), I think, a perfect example of how to make a great music video without a big budget or hundreds of extras: it uses one shot and one simple effect. So, I asked Director Tobias Perse about how he came up with the video…Added on Jul 29, 2005 6:00 AM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20) Movie of the Week: Operation Deathwormby Richard Baguley The Mongolian Deathworm is a tricky beast. Often seen by the locals, but never captured or photographed, it is one of the many mystery animals that are though to exist, but which haven’t been recorded by science. So, the Centre for Fortean Zoololgy from the UK organized a trip (called Operation Deathworm) to Mongolia to try and film the elusive Deathworm in its native habitat: you can read a full report on the trip here. David Churchill was one of the organizers and the chief cameraman recording the trip: you can see his videos here, and he is working on a DVD documenting the trip. We spoke to him about tracking Deathworms, camels and how to look after your camcorder equipment in a sandstorm…Added on Jul 22, 2005 1:00 PM Comments () - Read More - Technorati - Trackbacks (20)
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Splice Here has a tutorial up on how to stabilize footage using Avid Media Composer. Stabilization in Media Composer will happen in real-time unlike FCP’s SmoothCam filter which can make it a great tool to use when you need to get the shakes out of your video on the fly. Check out the tutorial 
The Ashland Independent Film Festival is currently accepting submissions for this years festival. The festival is set to run April 3-7th in the Varsity Theatre in 
Hunter Weeks, the director behind the film “10 MPH” has just published a do-it-yourself manual with first-time indie filmmakers in mind. The manual can be accessed for free off of Hunter’s website, or you can get a printable version for $.99. If you’re just starting off in the world on indie film this can be a great way to get some tips on how to make it work from someone who has been there. You can check it out 
The Workbook Project has an interview up with Tiffany Slain. Slain was the writer, director and producer of The Tribe and short film that is currently one of the Top 5 downloads on iTunes. Getting your film placed on iTunes (and making money off it) is fairly rare. You can listen to Tiffany talk about how she did it 
If you’ve got a little filmmaker at home then we’ve got the film festival for you. The 
We all handle criticism a little differently, especially when it comes to something as close to our hearts as our film. MicroFilmmaker magazine has an article up entitled “
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Has your film gotten rejected to every film festival you’ve entered it in? The Asheville “REJECTS” film festival may be for you. The festival is designed for film makers with small budget, or little actual “film education” who’ve made a film and want to share it with the world. The festival has no entry fee and accepts films from around the world.
Talk about publicity. How would you like the trailer for your next film to be projected…on a building? Trailers for Michael Moore’s new documentary Sicko will be projected on the side of buildings near the headquarters of US HMO’s, insurance companies, and hospitals in major cities today.