Thursday 29 November 2012
Shooting with the black magic part 2
Part 2 of a filmmakers journey with the Black Magic Cinema Camera.
Well worth a look for when we get ours.
Link HERE
Well worth a look for when we get ours.
Link HERE
Wednesday 28 November 2012
Tuesday 27 November 2012
Time lapse music video - 6 months
A lyric-lapse music video that took 6 months to make.
Music Video
and also the making of
Music Video
and also the making of
CIQ Tuesday 27th November HND year 1
Sorry forgot to post - if you see this can you please post. Thanks!
Monday 26 November 2012
Sunday 25 November 2012
Film Student Friday
NewBlueFX are on the
lookout for film students to be featured in their new series, Film Student
Friday.
Each Friday they feature a film student and their work to help provide
early visibility in their career. Students talk about their school, their
influences and other film related topics.
Check out their blogpost below, and
contact adamd@newblueinc.com if you're a film student that wants to get
involved!
A really good opportunity that may be able to help you answer the question: What makes you stand out?
Link HERE
25 films that have influenced a filmmaker
What 25 films have influenced you?
Are they similar to this list...better or worse.
Link HERE
Comment below or why not add it to your own blog/website - very useful evidence for your course.
Are they similar to this list...better or worse.
Link HERE
Comment below or why not add it to your own blog/website - very useful evidence for your course.
Black Magic V Ikonoskop
The Black MAgic has another competitor. However, it's pretty much a different camera but looks exciting and I like the sound of it.
Link HERE
Link HERE
Get paid to make Music Videos!
Have a look at Radar Music Videos. Artists want Music Video's creating and advertise for directors here. Have a look...you never know..you might get paid.
Link HERE
Link HERE
Friday 23 November 2012
Thursday 22 November 2012
HND Year 1 Leon Music
This is the music that Leon would like to use for his short films.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cBDbgRO1qY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV8dJIglTyI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXmg9hF00OA
We need something similar...copyright free.
See if you can find anything similar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cBDbgRO1qY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV8dJIglTyI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXmg9hF00OA
We need something similar...copyright free.
See if you can find anything similar.
Art of the Title
This website is great as it covers a section of filmmaking that is normally missed or ignored. The Art of the Tile website is the leading resource for title design for film, TV and video games from across the globe.
Really useful information and some stunning imagery - essential resource.
Link HERE
Really useful information and some stunning imagery - essential resource.
Link HERE
Soundtrack creation
The SoundWork Collection is a great website that has video interviews and profiles of the best up and coming sound designers involved in the film industry.
A really good resource for all things soundtrack.
Link HERE
A really good resource for all things soundtrack.
Link HERE
White Balance and Colour Temperature Infographic
A very easy to understand Infographic that clearly explains colour temperature scale.
Very useful for all you filmmakers
Link HERE
Very useful for all you filmmakers
Link HERE
Wednesday 21 November 2012
Colour Temperature...those Kelvin things
Video about colour temperature and degrees Kelvin...explained well.
Good for research purposes.
Good for research purposes.
Tuesday 20 November 2012
CV Writing Guide University of Kent
HND Year 1...this may help you with assessment criteria 5 of the Career Development Unit.
The Univeristy of Kent has numerous templates you can utilise so have a look.
Link HERE
The Univeristy of Kent has numerous templates you can utilise so have a look.
Link HERE
Monday 19 November 2012
VFX Artists Needed
Triune films are looking for video artists for upcomng projects. If your interested send links to your work: submissions@triunefilms.com Use "VFX" as the subject heading.
Triune Films Web page HERE
Triune Films Web page HERE
"I promise you...I will make it not suck".
Colin Trevorrow recons thatv he won't make Star Wars suck...I'm not convinced.
Fingers crossed...lets wait and see.
Link HERE
Fingers crossed...lets wait and see.
Link HERE
HND Year 1 - Promo Video Guidance
A video with advice and guidance when working with clients - may be useful as a reference when creating your documentation.
Link HERE
Link HERE
One for Nick P - Soundtrack
Finding the Sounds of the Film "Lincoln" An interview with Ben Burtt.
An interesting Conversation. Have a read and see what you think...very insightfull.
Link HERE
An interesting Conversation. Have a read and see what you think...very insightfull.
Link HERE
360 Panorama with a Canon 7D
Cool Music Video. Well worth a look especially as it was shot on a 7D. Also have a look at the "making of video" which is embeded.
Link HERE
Link HERE
Sunday 18 November 2012
Black Magic V DSLR World
There's lots of stuff out there at the moment about the BMC but this website provides a lot of information on both. Very relevant at the moment as were about to receive it soon...fingers crossed.
Some good comparisons between the 2.
Worth a read...link HERE.
Some good comparisons between the 2.
Worth a read...link HERE.
The directors speak
10 Renowned Directors Offer Their Advice on Filmmaking
Might be worth a look for all you budding directors.
Link HERE
Spielberg on what makes a good thriller and Jurassic Park
Shall we get one?
Any ideas how we could convince those that makes the decisions to but one of these?
Have a look at this short video HERE
Imagine the footage we could get on the 7D or 550D....epic!
Have a look at this short video HERE
Imagine the footage we could get on the 7D or 550D....epic!
Prometheus...love it or hate it?
The 8 Worst Parts of Prometheus Made Sense In the Original Script.
Link HERE
Have a read of this and see what you think.
Link HERE
Have a read of this and see what you think.
Thursday 15 November 2012
Pro Lost Blog
Here's a great blog with loads of hints, tips, advice & guidance for filmmakers.
There's some really useful tutorials when it comes to colour grading and also setting up your DSLR to shoot a flat image - something your going to need to get used to when the Black Magic arrives.
Tutorial link to colour grading with colorista II HERE
Changing settings on a 550D to shoot flat HERE
There's some really useful tutorials when it comes to colour grading and also setting up your DSLR to shoot a flat image - something your going to need to get used to when the Black Magic arrives.
Tutorial link to colour grading with colorista II HERE
Changing settings on a 550D to shoot flat HERE
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Monday 12 November 2012
Predicting How Much a Movie Will Make...Possible?
The guardian has published an article on how patterns on wikipedia can predict the profitability of a movie release weeks before it is released according to scientists.
Very interesting...have a read HERE
Very interesting...have a read HERE
VFX & Looper
Karen Goulekas (Production VFX Supervisor) talks about working with the director of "Looper" and other challenges she faced.
Link HERE
Link HERE
Friday 9 November 2012
Thursday 8 November 2012
Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration
Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration
Have read, when you get chance during your busy schedule.
Coppola speaks very openly about his filmmaking.
Well worth a read!
Link HERE
Have read, when you get chance during your busy schedule.
Coppola speaks very openly about his filmmaking.
Well worth a read!
Link HERE
Professional Industry Project
European Commision
More funding opportunities...It's out there you just need to know where to look.
Funding for the Audio-Visual Sector
Funding for the Audio-Visual Sector
The European Commission has issued three new
calls for proposals under MEDIA’s development funding schemes. Media is the
European Commission programme for supporting the European audio-visual
sector. Grants totaling €18 million are available to experienced
independent producers of fiction, animation, documentary and interactive
projects. The Calls for Proposals cover three types of funding:
Development – Single Project, Development – Slate and Development – Interactive,
each of which have slightly different eligibility criteria and potential grant
amounts.
Read more HERE
This scheme as two
deadlines, 23 November and 12 April 2013
May be not for you now but maybe a future opportunity?
Lottery Heritage Fund
I forgot to add this to the long list.
I've mentioned it before, but I was involved in a project over the last 18 months that was funded by the Lottery Heritage Fund.
Link to the project HERE
Anyone can apply. There is no reason why you can't either but obviously it needs to fit into their ethos. Have a look at their website and see if anything links into a potential project you could conduct in your own neighbourhood.
Link HERE to website.
Link to East Midlands area HERE
I've mentioned it before, but I was involved in a project over the last 18 months that was funded by the Lottery Heritage Fund.
Link to the project HERE
Anyone can apply. There is no reason why you can't either but obviously it needs to fit into their ethos. Have a look at their website and see if anything links into a potential project you could conduct in your own neighbourhood.
Link HERE to website.
Link to East Midlands area HERE
Another Film Grant
Nominet Trust
Digital Edge Programme
Through the programme organisation can apply
for grants to fund projects that address key challenges faced by young people
through the innovative uses of digital technologies. Challenges such as high
unemployment, social exclusion and low political engagement; etc. There is no
upper or lower funding limit as the Trust like to encourage applicants to be
realistic about what they need to achieve their project objectives. The closing
date for applications is the 12 December. To find out more, visit the website
As i've told you there is funding available, normally very specific, but nevertheless it is still accessible. If you move in the right circles, talk to the right people you here about things.
The Sound Edit: Wildlife
Calling all filmmakers,photographers
and animators!
We are offering you the exclusive
opportunity to write a treatment for a film or multimedia photostory, working
with a selection of rare wildlife sounds from the British Library Sound
Collection – with cash prizes for the best project ideas. A shortlist of 10
IdeasTap members will be awarded £500 each to create their film. The final 10
films or multimedia photostories will go before a panel of industry experts,
who will select one overall winner to receive £1,000 and a screening at the
British Library Spring Festival. To find out more, visit the website. Deadline 5pm, 30 November. This
competition is only open to UK-based IdeasTap members aged 16-30. IdeasTap is
free to join.
Wednesday 7 November 2012
British Council Film
Link to the festival list on the British councils website.
http://film.britishcouncil.org/festivals-directory
http://film.britishcouncil.org/festivals-directory
BSC: Professional Industry Project
Opportunity knocks
Below is a list of sites that could provide you with links to funding, screening or further information regarding your future aspirations.
Good Screenings
BIG Lottery Fund
BRITDOC Foundation
BRITDOC is a social entrepreneurship organisation that exists to nurture new talent and new approaches in documentary filmmaking. So far our grants have enabled 60 wonderful, award winning and influential films to be made. But our work only begins there – we train, inform, inspire, broker and campaign too. We started the Good Pitch two years ago and partnered with the Sundance Institute Documentary Program to take it around North America.
Films are the best medium for changing hearts and minds and lives, by bringing stories and issues to the widest possible audiences. Films inspire people to engage and act. That's why we broker relationships between third sector and filmmakers.
http://www.britdoc.org
Catapult Film Fund
Catapult Film Fund provides early development funding to documentary filmmakers who have a compelling story to tell. We support powerful stories, and moving storytelling, across a broad spectrum of issues and perspectives.
http://catapultfilmfund.org/projects.html
Chicken and Egg Pictures
Chicken & Egg Pictures is a hybrid film fund and non-profit production company dedicated to supporting women filmmakers who are as passionate about the craft of storytelling as they are about the social justice, environmental and human rights issues they’re embracing, translating and exploring on film.
We match strategically timed financial support with rigorous, respectful and dynamic mentorship, creative collaboration and community-building to nurture women filmmakers whose diverse voices represent a range of lived experience and realities that have the power to change the world as we know it.
http://www.chickeneggpics.org/
Cinema in Tent
Cinema InTent was born directly from the Occupy London movement. We are a group of cine-activists who screened films in the Uni tent near St. Paul's and in Bank of Ideas. Our past and future screenings are an eclectic mix of jammed up juxtapositions: classics, countercinema, docs, fictions, experimental with filmmakers, discussions, popcorn and sometimes poetry.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cinemaintent/
Cinereach
Cinereach is a NY-based non-profit film production company and foundation that champions vital stories, artfully told. Cinereach empowers fiction and nonfiction filmmakers from all over the world through Grants & Awards, The Reach Film Fellowship, an internal Productions department, and through partnerships with the Sundance Institute and other organizations. Since 2006, Cinereach has disbursed over $4.5 million in grant funds to more than 90 projects at the intersection of engaging storytelling, visual artistry and vital subject matter.
http://www.cinereach.org
Cineuropa
Site dedicated to European cinema, films, actors, filmmakers, professionals, producers, distributors, sales agents, scriptwriters, film finance and the film industry as a whole… Cineuropa was created in 2002 in order to provide up-to-date information and other services essential to know one another better to cinephiles from all over the world interested in knowing more about European films, as well as to film and television professionals.
http://cineuropa.org/
City Screen/Picturehouse Cinemas
CODOC
CODOC is an award-winning media platform dedicated to creating spaces for critical thought through media. We aim to help build a culture defined by free expression, equality and creativity. Our collective experience in post-conflict zones around the world helped instill a sense of responsibility to disrupt current forms of journalism and documentary storytelling.
We believe that it is time for a new form of participatory driven documentary to emerge that invites open discussion and seeks to engage, inform as well as entertain. Our upcoming interactive web channel CODOC.TV will harness the growing convergence of media platforms globally.
http://www.codoc.org
Doc Alliance films
The aim of Doc Alliance is to support the diverse nature of documentary film and to increase audience awareness. It represents a dynamic platform offering filmmakers and producers alternative forms of distribution for films that are often difficult to get onto the market. The purpose of Doc Alliance is to help documentary films reach as many viewers as possible, and to systematically support their distribution on the festival market and through its website, DAFilms.com.
http://dafilms.com/
DocHouse
http://www.dochouse.org
Dogwoof
Thats just a few possible links...there are more.
Below is a list of sites that could provide you with links to funding, screening or further information regarding your future aspirations.
Good Screenings
Good Screenings is a way for companies, community groups, charities, schools, churches and ordinary people to organise their own screenings of good films - films that make you think about the world in a different way. Screening organisers can charge for tickets and keep the profits.
Simple.
It’s made possible by revolutionary film distribution system – a clever piece of software called Indie Screenings. Indie Screenings lets you make your own booking of a film online, it automatically calculates the screening fee, takes your payment and the whole thing takes about 5 minutes.
Simple.
It’s made possible by revolutionary film distribution system – a clever piece of software called Indie Screenings. Indie Screenings lets you make your own booking of a film online, it automatically calculates the screening fee, takes your payment and the whole thing takes about 5 minutes.
http://www.goodscreenings.org/
Kickstarter
Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. Every week, tens of thousands of people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, games, fashion, food, publishing, and other creative fields. Since April 2009, more than 2.7 million people have pledged more than $360 million to projects by creators who always maintain full ownership and complete creative control of their work.
http://www.kickstarter.com/
Puma Creative
A better world in our vision—PUMAVision—would be safer, more peaceful, and more creative than the world we know today. Through the programs of PUMA.Safe (focusing on environmental and social issues), PUMA.Peace (supporting global peace) and PUMA.Creative (supporting artists and creative organizations), we are providing real and practical expressions of this vision.
A & E Indie Films
A division of A&E Television Networks, A&E IndieFilms commissions, acquires and provides finishing funds for feature documentaries. IndieFilms partners with distributors on films including "The September Issue" (Roadside Attractions), "American Teen" (Paramount Vantage), "Murderball" (ThinkFilm), "Jesus Camp" (Magnolia Pictures), "My Kid Could Paint That" (Sony Pictures Classics), “The Tillman Story” (The Weinstein Company), and it’s latest, “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” (Magnolia).
Arts Council England
Arts Council England works to get great art to everyone by championing, developing and investing in artistic experiences that enrich people's lives. We support a range of artistic activities from theatre to music, literature to dance, photography to digital art, and carnival to crafts. Great art inspires us, brings us together and teaches us about ourselves, and the world around us. In short, it makes life better.
Arts Engine
Arts Engine, Inc. supports, produces, and distributes independent media of consequence and promotes the use of independent media by advocates, educators and the general public.
We are committed to bringing real improvements to communities, and to the lives of people most in need. BIG is the largest distributor of Lottery money to good causes and is responsible for delivering 40 per cent of all funds raised for good causes by The National Lottery. Since 2004 BIG has awarded over £4.4 billion to projects supporting health, education, environment and charitable purposes. Most of our funding is awarded to voluntary and community sector organisations.
We are interested in working with film makers and broadcasters to engage the public in having a say in how Lottery funds are spent.
BRITDOC is a social entrepreneurship organisation that exists to nurture new talent and new approaches in documentary filmmaking. So far our grants have enabled 60 wonderful, award winning and influential films to be made. But our work only begins there – we train, inform, inspire, broker and campaign too. We started the Good Pitch two years ago and partnered with the Sundance Institute Documentary Program to take it around North America.
Films are the best medium for changing hearts and minds and lives, by bringing stories and issues to the widest possible audiences. Films inspire people to engage and act. That's why we broker relationships between third sector and filmmakers.
http://www.britdoc.org
Catapult Film Fund
Catapult Film Fund provides early development funding to documentary filmmakers who have a compelling story to tell. We support powerful stories, and moving storytelling, across a broad spectrum of issues and perspectives.
http://catapultfilmfund.org/projects.html
Chicken and Egg Pictures
Chicken & Egg Pictures is a hybrid film fund and non-profit production company dedicated to supporting women filmmakers who are as passionate about the craft of storytelling as they are about the social justice, environmental and human rights issues they’re embracing, translating and exploring on film.
We match strategically timed financial support with rigorous, respectful and dynamic mentorship, creative collaboration and community-building to nurture women filmmakers whose diverse voices represent a range of lived experience and realities that have the power to change the world as we know it.
http://www.chickeneggpics.org/
Cinema in Tent
Cinema InTent was born directly from the Occupy London movement. We are a group of cine-activists who screened films in the Uni tent near St. Paul's and in Bank of Ideas. Our past and future screenings are an eclectic mix of jammed up juxtapositions: classics, countercinema, docs, fictions, experimental with filmmakers, discussions, popcorn and sometimes poetry.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cinemaintent/
Cinereach
Cinereach is a NY-based non-profit film production company and foundation that champions vital stories, artfully told. Cinereach empowers fiction and nonfiction filmmakers from all over the world through Grants & Awards, The Reach Film Fellowship, an internal Productions department, and through partnerships with the Sundance Institute and other organizations. Since 2006, Cinereach has disbursed over $4.5 million in grant funds to more than 90 projects at the intersection of engaging storytelling, visual artistry and vital subject matter.
http://www.cinereach.org
Cineuropa
Site dedicated to European cinema, films, actors, filmmakers, professionals, producers, distributors, sales agents, scriptwriters, film finance and the film industry as a whole… Cineuropa was created in 2002 in order to provide up-to-date information and other services essential to know one another better to cinephiles from all over the world interested in knowing more about European films, as well as to film and television professionals.
http://cineuropa.org/
City Screen/Picturehouse Cinemas
City Screen are the leading independent cinema operator in the UK, with independent, art-house and foreign language films being central to their ethos.
Our regular Picturehouse DOCS programming strand works with distributors and filmmakers to bring the best in documentary film to cinema screens.
http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/CODOC
CODOC is an award-winning media platform dedicated to creating spaces for critical thought through media. We aim to help build a culture defined by free expression, equality and creativity. Our collective experience in post-conflict zones around the world helped instill a sense of responsibility to disrupt current forms of journalism and documentary storytelling.
We believe that it is time for a new form of participatory driven documentary to emerge that invites open discussion and seeks to engage, inform as well as entertain. Our upcoming interactive web channel CODOC.TV will harness the growing convergence of media platforms globally.
http://www.codoc.org
Doc Alliance films
The aim of Doc Alliance is to support the diverse nature of documentary film and to increase audience awareness. It represents a dynamic platform offering filmmakers and producers alternative forms of distribution for films that are often difficult to get onto the market. The purpose of Doc Alliance is to help documentary films reach as many viewers as possible, and to systematically support their distribution on the festival market and through its website, DAFilms.com.
http://dafilms.com/
DocHouse
DocHouse is dedicated to the promotion of Documentary. We have been showcasing the best documentaries from around the world since 2002 in cinemas across London. As a leading force for the exhibition of documentary both internationally and in the UK we have run Festivals, Events, Masterclasses and Education Courses - nurturing new talent for the future.
DocHouse works in partnership with distributors, broadcasters, cinemas, universities, festivals and sponsors to promote UK and International Documentary through showcase screenings with panel discussions, events and masterclasses. In education our Summerdocs Course in partnership with the NFTS has an international reputation for excellence.http://www.dochouse.org
Dogwoof
Dogwoof is the biggest UK film distributor for Documentary and social issue films. Our vision is to make a difference thru film on a global scale through our films such as Age of Stupid, Food Inc, Burma VJ, A Small Act, & End of the Line. Dogwoof is a social enterprise and works with NGOs and corporations such as The co-operative and Cisco to deliver this.
Distribution of films across the UK on all platforms: Cinemas, DVD, online, non-theatrical,TV Creating the largest awareness campaigns about key issues by working closely with the filmmakers, partners, and engage the audience with the film Supported by large online and offline campaigns, especially thru PR and social media as a key Outreach tool
Envy Post Production
We are based in London and one of the leading Post Production Houses in the UK. We work on programmes including Documentaries and Feature Docs, Factual, Drama, Comedy, Light Entertainment and we collaborate on design, branding and commercials.
Envy is at the cutting edge of technology and is a beta test site for Avid, Discreet and Film Light. We are at the fore front of technological developments within all areas of digital broadcast television.
http://site.org/www.envypost.co.uk
Firelight Media
Firelight Media is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing talented documentary filmmakers who tell stories about people, places, cultures and issues that are underrepresented in the mainstream media.
Firelight Media and its profit arm, Firelight Films, use media to help provide information about issues and little known events in the mainstream media, to underserved communities and to PBS. We also provide professional development and support to 20 producers in the Media Lab. Stanley Nelson is the President and his film Freedom Riders is scheduled to air on American Exp. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders.
http://www.firelightmedia.org/
Media Desk UK
The role of the MEDIA Desk UK is to help UK filmmakers and other audiovisual industry professionals understand and apply to the MEDIA Programme’s funding schemes, and to promote the programme in the UK.
Shooting People
The international networking organisation dedicated to the support and promotion of independent filmmakers.
Taskovski Films
Taskovski Films is a London based world sales and production company of independent documentary and fiction films. We aim to nurture and support both newcomer and established talent, welcoming innovative, playful and risky forms of filmmaking, capable of engaging and surprising audiences around the globe. Our passion is discovering new talent and authorial stories.
The BERTHA Foundation
The Bertha Foundation believes that bright ideas, combined with resources and strong leadership, can create profound social impact. We believe in the power of activism to generate social, political, economic and environmental change. We hope those touched by The Bertha Foundation will in turn be inspired and motivated to create meaningful opportunities for others. Like BRITDOC, we are dedicated to supporting the creation and distribution of social impact media projects.
We believe in the power of visual storytelling to educate, inform and inspire action, and are dedicated to supporting the creation and distribution of social impact media projects. We work to build audiences for documentary content, nurture talent, and cultivate partnerships and alliances in the media realm.
http://www.berthafoundation.orgThats just a few possible links...there are more.
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