CIQ Thursday 29th November HND Year 1

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Breathless commentary by Tarantino on True Romance

Really good listen and read.

Link HERE

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

The only advice you need

Interview and advice by one of the greatest.

Link HERE

10 expenses most first time film directors make

Good article on the Raindance website




Link HERE

Powerful...Important...Film

Sometimes film can have a real purpose. Great Short Documentary!

Link HERE

The dark art of metering

Really useful blog article about the importance of getting your metering right.

Link HERE

Rehearsing actors do's and don'ts

A good read on how to deal with actors.

Link HERE

Time lapse music video - 6 months

A lyric-lapse music video that took 6 months to make.

Music Video


and also the making of

Worlds Fastest Dolly Shot

Watch this

Link HERE

CIQ Tuesday 27th November HND year 1

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CIQ Monday 26th November HND Year 1

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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

5 ways Marvel's phase 2 will change filmmaking forever

What do you think?

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.

HND Year 1 - job roles help

The Key Grip...what do they do?

Link HERE

Information for your assignment.

Want to learn how to be a focus puller?

Great article on the in's and out's of being a focus puller and how to become one.

Link HERE

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

Aperture and Depth of Field Guide

A really good and comprehensive guide to Aperture and Depth of field.

Link HERE

Will we ever run out of new music?

One for you Nick...what do you think?

I think not.

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

BSC...possible festival next year?

Could be a possibility to enter your work into this next year.

Link HERE

Website looks nice anyway.

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.

CIQ Thursday 22nd November HND Year 1

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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

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

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

How the Beatles defined modern animation

A really nice guardian article especially if you are researching animation.

Link HERE

Filmmaking iPhone Apps

A list of the 10 best iPhone apps for filmmaking...allegedly

Link HERE

Colour Temperature...those Kelvin things

Video about colour temperature and degrees Kelvin...explained well.

Good for research purposes.

Lincoln Screenwriter Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner talking about screenwriting and Lincoln.

Toy Boats Tilt Shift 5D

A really cool video using a tilt shift lens on a canon 5D

Link HERE

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

Career Development Brief HND Year 1

I'm posting this here as the link on moodle now does not work - I have no idea why.

Link HERE

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

CIQ Monday 19th November

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"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

15 video encoding and converting apps for mac

Link HERE

Might help you with your post production - have you heard of them all?

There can never be too many documentaries

Article on  the volume of good quality documentaries that are currently being produced.

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

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

Epic Timelapse

Brings back memories of my time in NC.

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

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.

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

Have a look at this short video...really interesting!

Link HERE

There's also some rare footage of Spielberg on set of Jurassic Park HERE

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!

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.

Time-lapse

Some of the best time-lapse videos from around the world HERE

Have a look some are amazing!

CIQ Thursday 15th November HND Year1

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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

CIQ Tuesday 13th November HND Year 1

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CIQ HND Year 1 12/11/2012

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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

Storyboards....Important?

Terry Gilliam discusses the importance of storyboarding. Well worth a view!

Link HERE

VFX & Looper

Karen Goulekas (Production VFX Supervisor) talks about working with the director of "Looper" and other challenges she faced.

Link HERE

BSC: Professional Industry Project

Link to the assignment brief  HERE

I'll put it on to moodle when I figure out how to.

Chevrolet Young Creative

Link to competition HERE

Link to competition brief HERE

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

Professional Industry Project

Presentation 2

Link HERE

Also link to last weeks presentation 1 HERE

Remember:

“I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.”

Francis Ford Coppola

European Commision

More funding opportunities...It's out there you just need to know where to look.

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

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.

British Council Film

Link to the festival list on the British councils website.

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

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.

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.

http://creative.puma.com

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).

http://www.aetv.com/indiefilms/index.jsp

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.

http://www.artscouncil.org.uk

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.

http://www.artsengine.net/about/mission_statement

 BIG Lottery Fund

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.

http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk

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

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

http://dogwoof.com

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.

http://mediadeskuk.eu

Shooting People

The international networking organisation dedicated to the support and promotion of independent filmmakers.

http://shootingpeople.org

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.

http://www.taskovskifilms.com

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.org

Thats just  a few possible links...there are more.