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2005
was a turning point in the entertainment industries, the year that
Hollywood's tried and tested methods of reaching the masses finally had
tio give way - to iPods, TiVos and Xbox 360s. What lessons will 2006
bring? The lesson of changing markets, that's for sure. The best
admission of that came from NBC Universal TV chairman Jeff Zucker; "The
overall strategy is to make…
The Defence Medical Services Department (DMSD), part of the Ministry of Defence has appointed iceni Productions to produce a unique Defence Nursing web video project. The year long project will see the Midlands based video production company iceni, filming Defence Nurses across the UK giving a fresh perspective on the world of Nursing within the Military.
The nursing video, which will be ava…
Allan
Kaprow (August 23, 1927 - April 5, 2006) helped to develop the
"Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as
their theory. His Happenings - some 200 of them - evolved over the
years, and attempted to integrate art and life by blurring the
separation between life and art, and artist and audience. He has
published extensively and was Profess…
"Is a very powerful love story. There is man. There is woman. Man falls over. Woman falls in love. Man wears funny hat. Oh no! Is woman dying of disease? Yes. Then man fall over some more. She get better. They get married. The end."
Roberto Benitio is best know as the Italian comedian and film maker who directed ‘Wasn’t World War Two Fun?’ which swept the board at the Oscars two years ago. He c…
The beaches of Goa are a bit like the United Nations, so many pepople from around the world, so many ambassadors of peace. They mostly seem lovely wise souls who will probably one day run companies and countries.
Meanwhile in the US a very real battle continues, the ultimate in a way.
And it is a battle which - if the Clintons push it too hard, could perhaps split the Democratic party…
Before editing software was developed and even before there were any edit suite controllers, video tape was edited by manually slicing it by people using very sharp razor blades.
This was a process known as Kamikaze editing. Early editors also used a microscope, a cutting block, magnetic developing fluid and degauzed (demagnetised) razor blades. For a clean edit, the tape had to…
As the season finally closes in on us, for those tired of the same
old re-runs on TV or wanting to avoid the family warzone of the living
room and watch TV on a computer under your bed - or better still are
looking for films to share during the post-dinner
web video show-off - I've pulled together some of our favorites of the
year.
In the first bundle I've focussed on anima…
"You see he didn't start out as a robot. He was a policeman who was gunned down so naturally they transplant his head onto a robot body to keep him alive and turn him into Cybocop. But the thing they forgot was his balls, isn't it? He thought with his balls. They controlled his instincts. "Do I shoot the criminals? What are my balls telling me?" That was how he operated. Without them he's just a…
Following
the success of Brokeback Mountain and Capote, 2006 has been called by
some, the gayest year in recorded history. But one man has gone further
still. Josh Tenttrow is Professor of Gender Studies at the University
of San Francisco. Often called the most flamboyant academic in the US,
Tenttrow has written a string of books examining gender and sexuality
issues in mainstream cinema…
i have spent the last 6 months trying to make a small impact on my website with my content that hopefully is something different to what is offered by the established networks (as i have no budget there will be cracks here and there in the quality) and seeing as i am not handcuffed by the censorship and regulatory boards my material can be inflammatory if need be depending on what i am thinking a…
So I finally hit the big time and moved up a decimal place in my daily Web Monetization payouts.
As I mentioned last month I've added Web Monetization here and a few other sites (FundYourFilm.com, Visuali.st – my work site, and screen.is). After a daily trickle of a penny or two, I got an email on the 15th "You received 1.77612 XRP from Interledger Network", which based on today's price of the c…
Music videos
The End of the World
REM's The End of the World As We Know It sung by George W Bush
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Familjen - Det snurrar i min skalle
Swedish Grammy nominated mashup of archive evangelists to Familjen's music.
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Mashups
The Vadar Sessions
Before Star Wars, James Earl Jones starred…
How Do I Sell My Film Part One - DEMOGRAPHICS
Netribution and film distributors WYSIWYG have joined forces to present on-line WYSIWYG's essential Guide to Film Distribution.
We're both interested in building a strong industry for independent filmmakers. This means creating films that people want to see and buy. It does not mean sacrificing creative integrity, but it means business. To do the b…
So I
decided to give myself the Christmas break - from just after boxing day
until the 9th of January when I returned to work to tryand get
Netribution 2.0 up online. I ordered one of the most boring christmas
presents in memory - Larry Ulman's 'PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Websites'
and proceeded to teach myself some basic PHP, beynd what I'd hacked for
the www.ukfilmfinance…
Bader Ben Hirsi could make quite a screenplay out of his experience directing the first feature film ever made in Yemen, the ancient land at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. His results though, have impressed the Arab world, who are bound to be his sternest critics. Ben Hirsi's film has just scooped the Grand Prize at the Cairo Film Festival. James MacGregor, who has spent ma…
Dead pan and wry are often traits associated with the national character of Edinburgh International Film Festival’s own natives, the Scots. So it’s intriguing to witness Argentinian and Greek directors – Ana Katz and Filippos Tsitos respectively - tackling family drama or existential inevitability in a dry-as-a-bone manner. Whether Argentinians or Greeks are noted for irony is moot, but consideri…
Tom Swanston Reports from the NORDIC CO-PRODUCTION FORUM
Haugesund, Norway 21-23 August 2006
This year the beautiful coastal town of Haugesund, Norway was host to the first ever Nordic Co-Production Forum, held from 21st to 23rd August. The town is situated on a long sea inlet in the South West of the country, a 45-minute flight from Oslo.
The…
Just before lunch yesterday I read of a report by the WWF that the number of species on the planet has reduced by 31% in the last 35 years. If the planet continues at its current pace of using natural resource, by 2050 two earths would be needed to meet current demand, with an almost inevitable consequential environmental collapse.
Then while munching away on my fried eggs on toast, I read…
Aimed at first time visitors, Shizana Arshad and Laura Horowitz at 6 Degrees Film have put together a Cannes Guide
containing information on the festival itself, how to submit your film
and obtain accreditation along with useful numbers and info...
What do you need to know about
attending the Cannes Film Festival? What should you expect? Who gets
accreditation? Find out the answers to…
We were chatting the other night about how the Death
Star, for all its evil genius as a total killing machine, was really badly
designed. I mean from a defensive point of view – a huge open port,
with no gun turrets inside, leading to a big self destruct button. And Darth, despite all his Jedi training, is a pretty lousy pursuer of Luke.
So we wondered if, at the end of Episode 3…
All is clear now. The middle east crisis. Homer Simpson vs Ned Flanders. Almost every fight I've ever had. Thanks Norman McLaren & BoingBoing. (this won the best animated short Oscar in 1952)
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From LazyFilm:
There are only two things that can make any motion graphic artist
flinch and that's rotoscoping and chroma keying. Why? Mainly because
both processes are time consuming and arm numbing. However despite all
these, rotoscoping and chroma keying still remains to be very important
in the industry we move in. Which is why, lately, software companies
are launching new…