by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Video production is an effective tool for producing more sales, training employees, and telling the world about products and services. Video presentations can be shown to large groups and be viewed privately by one person. Television is the number one source of information for most people in North American and Europe. Business and Industry has been using industrial films and videos for years. As production … [Read more...]
The War and Peace of Indie Film Production
I've learned through making movies the war and peace of indie film production can be either creative hell or creative heaven. It is cliché, but it is really all in a person's outlook on indie film production which it will be. Being unrealistic about what type of indie film you can make with a limited movie budget sets an aspiring filmmaker up for creative hell.I casually know one high strung filmmaker I run into once in a blue moon at a certain … [Read more...]
Labor Pains and Contractions in Film Production
I've read that labor pains and contractions in pregnancy are pains that are all part of the labor process that prepares the body for giving birth. There's a lot more that goes on during pregnancy and childbirth. Ask any woman who has given birth to get first-hand insight.Labor pains and contractions in film production are part of the creative process of giving birth to a movie. Ask any film producer about experiencing labor pains and contractions … [Read more...]
Long Live Those Who Choose The Independent Path In Film Production
It seems like the only films being made these days by major studios are sequels to comic book hero movies, remakes of classic old movies and old television shows that have been turned into movies. Most of the projects of today's film industry are chosen by Wall Street instead of by some cigar chomping studio executive sitting behind a desk on a studio lot in Hollywood. It can be disheartening at times when you are standing in front of an … [Read more...]
Low Budget Music Video Production.
Decide on a budget How much can you afford, really afford, to spend? At the least, even with borrowed equipment, a free location, and your brother doing post production, you will probably blow at the least a few hundred making this budget music video production. High end videos, like those on MTV, run into movie-budget type numbers, so if you don't have the dough to make the next Thriller, then go for a style that fits your music and where you … [Read more...]
Independent filmmakers: The Quest to Find Contact Information for Production Companies
Article by Sara L. Gordon I was recently visiting a very popular website focusing on funding a movie. At this site, an aspiring filmmaker videotapes himself calling different production companies in a quest to get independent film financing.A few people watched this video and commented in response "how did you get those phone numbers?" As it turns out, this particular filmmaker had direct contact information for some of Hollywood's biggest … [Read more...]