So, it’s been a while. Sometimes I get very busy at work, so not a lot of filmmaking happens. But this weekend writer Steve and I met for a discussion of the Winter project and set some short-term goals, so it feels like things are moving again. The chief difficulty with a greenscreen project is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Winter’
First Steps to World Domination
Posted in Filmmaking, Winter, tagged Filmmaking, greenscreen, vfx, web serial, Winter on August 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Teaser details for “Winter”
Posted in Filmmaking, My Films, Winter, Writing, tagged Filmmaking, storyworld, Winter on June 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Scriptwriter extraordinaire Steve Turnbull has announced details of our latest project on his blog, adaddinsane. This is the flagship project in our shared story-world, which is very exciting because the setting Steve has created is far too rich to fully explore in one short serial. The words “epic” and “independent” are strange bedfellows, but I [...]
Social Networking with Scott Kirsner
Posted in Filmmaking, Winter, tagged crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, scott kirsner, Winter on January 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I attended a seminar on Wednesday with Scott Kirsner, organised by North West Vision and Media (they should have a video of the event on their site shortly). He made a great presentation summarizing his book “Fans, Friends and Followers” with example YouTube videos and websites, and we had an interesting Q&A session afterwards. I [...]
Planning ahead
Posted in Directing, Editing, Filmmaking, Winter, tagged Filmmaking, web serial, Winter on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So, here’s my current plans for 2010 – outside work, at least. I’ll post about my TT projects when they’re announced. • Write making-of posts for the rest of my films. I’m doing them in chronological order, and the more recent ones are bigger projects and fresher in my memory – which means the posts [...]
CrowdSourcing
Posted in Filmmaking, Winter, tagged crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, Filmmaking, trulyfreefilm, Winter on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ted Hope of TrulyFreeFilm has an interesting post on crowdsourcing for film funding – notably the idea that nowadays filmmakers should demonstrate they can build an audience before seeking funding, and have a marketing strategy and ecommerce solutions in place. He makes a good point – many filmmakers see funding as merely an obstacle to [...]
