Archive for March, 2008
Listen to the DRM Panel from CES
The Center for Social Media at American University is hosting an MP3 of the (somewhat contentious) panel discussion on DRM entitled “The True Cost of DRM: What Can’t We Do Now?” which occurred at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. Digital rights management and what to do about it is an issue that affects [...]
Chris Anderson on Charlie Rose
Chris Anderson (author of The Long Tail, editor of Wired Magazine) recently did an interview with Charlie Rose. See: post on his blog for embedded video.
Avid Cuts Prices
Photo by Nick Wiesner
In light of Avid’s recent price cuts Frank Capria at Pro Video Coalition answerers the question “Can Media Composer at $2,495 compete with Final Cut Studio?” The short answer? It doesn’t have to. He talks about his favorite premium features in Avid (Animatte, FluidMorph, and ScriptSync) and makes suggestions [...]
Hitchcock’s Quote of the Day
Photo by Till Krech
This quote from the Quotations Page’s Quote of the Day:
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”- Alfred Hitchcock
Keep that in mind next time you’re debating whether to cut that extra scene.
Hulu Business Model Meets Skepticism
Michael Learmonth of Silicon Valley Insider, speculates that Hulu is selling ads at $25 CPM (cost per mille), and that their monthly traffic of 5 million viewers would translate to $125,000 after revenue sharing. He doesn’t cover what numbers he thinks Hulu has on the expenses side of the balance sheet, but does say [...]
Guerrilla Filmmaking
Guerrilla Filmmaking is a subset of indie films closely related to low-to-no budget films that is characterized by the attitude of “shoot now, ask later”. Show up on location, with a small crew and light gear. Shoot quick and dirty, and if anyone questions you, run away. (NB: I am aware that [...]
Red One: 120fps footage
If you follow developments in digital video like I do, you’ve probably been drooling over the Red One for quite some time now. I won’t attempt to explain the impact of the Red One in it’s entirety just yet, but I thought you might be interested in seeing an example of the Red One’s [...]
More Reason to be Indie
Ken Levine, TV Comedy Writer, has a timely post called “If a major studio gave notes on JUNO.” This is a great humorous take on how a major studio would have changed the Oscar-nominated film from something fresh and poignant to just another stereotypical, bawdy Rom-Com.
Gratitude on Being Indie
Thoughts on why being independent, small budgets and all, is something worth being grateful for.
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” – Orson Welles
A huge budget and studio backing of your project does not bring you freedom. With all that money comes accountability to your investors. For the same reason that [...]
Script Frenzy!
Are you in a screenwriting slump? Is that sunny spring weather calling to you to put away the laptop and frolic among the trees? Well sit yourself back in that office chair, buddy, cause it’s Script Frenzy season!
Script Frenzy is like National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo, for screenwriters. You have 30 days [...]
