Category: Filmmaking Articles
March
10
2010
Auditions are inevitable in the career path of every actor. The acting skills of the actors are being evaluated during the auditions. Most often the casting directors select the actors during the auditions as they believe that an actor puts his best effort at auditions. So if you want to land in a role, you must put in your best performance at auditions.
The process of booking an actor for a role is done in few steps. The initial short listing is done based on your resume and headshot. The resume should be professionally prepared with accurate description and…
March
8
2010
To find a job in film making is rather a hard task, film making is not widely advertised. Film makers searching for a crew trust in networking and the gossip route to communicate. Positions are filled by the time production starts.
March
7
2010
Boulder, Colorado – Windward Reports, the leader in enterprise reporting software, has once again teamed up with online video pioneers Luke Barats and Joe Bereta to build upon the overwhelmingly successful Cubicle Wars viral marketing campaign. Cubicle Wars – the story of two Windward Reports customers with so much time on their hands that they spend their days “pranking” each other – was an instant hit on the Internet in 2006.
Five years ago, Barats and Bereta were recent college graduates performing improv comedy and making short videos for friends in Spokane, Washington.…
March
4
2010
Avatar. The word that is on everyone’s lips as they are going to the movies. James Cameron’s epic film is not just visual masterpiece, but it is also an indication on the way film making is continuing despite the recession. With a price tag a little less than a government bailout, it shows a new trend in film making budgets.
When the credit market began to dry up in 2007, the entertainment industry once saw its flush coffers begin to dry. Most movies are made on credit, so when the money became scarce, so did film projects. Big name…
March
1
2010
My name is Thomas Edward Seymour. I have been making Indie films for over twelve years now and believe it or not I’ve directed seven features, won 15 festival awards, and have been called one of the Top 20 Underground Filmmakers in the U.S. I’ve been interviewed and my films reviewed everywhere form the New York Times to NPR. More than likely your reaction to this is, “Well, I’ve never heard of you.” To which I answer, “Not many people have. Sucks for me huh?”
London Betty is my lucky number seven and I’m so very proud to be…
February
26
2010
In this day and age, anybody can become a film maker with a bit of knowledge about the film making industry. Where the new film makers are concerned, the crew with the best equipment is the crew they want.
February
23
2010
Most people have a somewhat rough idea of what filmmaking is all about. In this article we will try to go view the art and craft of filmmaking in an organized manner so that you can get a better idea of what it involves. First and foremost, what comes to your mind when someone utters the word filmmaking? Most people relate it to the movies and rightfully so because movies are the most popular expressions of filmmaking. However in reality there is more to filmmaking than creating movies. Broadly speaking there are two types of filmmaking, fiction and non-fiction.…
February
21
2010
When we’re viewing a good movie, we tend to leave our world of troubles and strain behind, and step into the plot on the screen. There have been times that I have been so concerned in a movie, I felt a bit disappoint when it ended.
February
20
2010
Filmmaking fascinates many people, even those who may not have any knowledge about filmmaking but would like to try their hand in it. Fortunately for such people amateur filmmaking has come of age with the proliferation of digital media. Earlier aspiring filmmakers only had film to work upon which was not affordable to everyone. Film cameras, even the low-end ones were quite expensive. But that’s past now with the rapid progress made by digital photography. In fact there are filmmaking enthusiasts who have been making movies with the cameras provided in their mobile phones! And anyway one cannot underestimate…
February
16
2010
There are several alternatives when it relates to film making schools. At the Los Angeles Film School, you will find the art of film making by actually making a film. Your first seven days you will be treating camera, and by the time you are ready to graduate you will more than likely have made many films during the span of every twelve months.