As an Indie Filmmaker there are multiple opportunities online to to market your film projects. However, making video presentations for the web can be different than movie making.
Tips from Digital Film making Blogs give some great advice to dramatically improve movies destined for the Web, consider these shooting tips:
* Keep the action steady. Reduce the amount of fast and extended motion in your movie because high-speed action sequences result in sluggish playback.
* Use well-lit scenes. Because dark settings present difficulties in compression, you’ll want to avoid videotaping in low-light conditions.
* Compose for contrast. When creating compositions for the Web, contrast is more important than color because drastic compression leaves little room for color fidelity.
Click Here to the rest of the Digital Film Making Blog Article on about "How to Film Online"
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
10 Ways to Market Your Underground Film Online for (Mostly) Free
If you don't have millions of dollars to promote your indie film, there are plenty of other resources available.
Bad Lit has 10 ways to Promote your film
1) Get listed on IMDB.com! This is the absolute first step any filmmaker should do once they’ve completed their film.
2) Get a free blog.
3) Upload production stills to Flickr.
4) Send hi-res photos through YouSendIt.com.
5) Upload your trailer. Just slap together a couple of key moments and scenes from your film, upload the trailer to all of the video sites that have proliferated on the web within the past year or so and “tag” the trailer with any and all appropriate keywords that will let people find your video.
6) Get a MySpace page.
7) Get an IndieLOOP page.
8) Comment on other people’s blogs.
9) Send review copies to movie sites.
10) Sell merchandise through CafePress.com.
We recommend visiting the Bad Lit website to learn more about these 10 Marketing Strategies to Promote your Film!
Bad Lit has 10 ways to Promote your film
1) Get listed on IMDB.com! This is the absolute first step any filmmaker should do once they’ve completed their film.
2) Get a free blog.
3) Upload production stills to Flickr.
4) Send hi-res photos through YouSendIt.com.
5) Upload your trailer. Just slap together a couple of key moments and scenes from your film, upload the trailer to all of the video sites that have proliferated on the web within the past year or so and “tag” the trailer with any and all appropriate keywords that will let people find your video.
6) Get a MySpace page.
7) Get an IndieLOOP page.
8) Comment on other people’s blogs.
9) Send review copies to movie sites.
10) Sell merchandise through CafePress.com.
We recommend visiting the Bad Lit website to learn more about these 10 Marketing Strategies to Promote your Film!
Monday, March 22, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
How to Make a Radial Dolly
You might want to skip to the 1:35 mark to see how the radial dolly is made...or just watch the entire video!
How to Make a Radial Dolly
How to Make a Radial Dolly
Monday, March 15, 2010
Free Video Editing Software Links
Software tools to edit video can cost upwards of thousands of dollars. However, if making a movie on a budget is your problem, you don't have to buy the latest and greatest. There is plenty of software available for free. Below is a list of links to some of recommended free software.
1. Windows Live Movie Maker
Trim your video clips to show only the parts you want. Add titles, transitions, music, and effects like panning and zooming.
2. Blender
Blender is a complicated tool with a steep learning curve. However, the benefits and features that come with this free tool make it hard to pass up. You can use it to add 3d shapes into live footage or shooting against blue- or green screens and you can also use it for video editing and putting your final footage together. "Blender's animations systems supports a variety of techniques and tasks, allowing the creation of complex animations."
3. Wax
"Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects."
4. Video Spin
Video Spin was put together by Pinnacle, a well known name in the video editing software industry. PC Magazine says that with Video Spin "you'll be rewarded with an easy-to-use, highly streamlined workflow for producing and uploading videos."
5. Virtual Dub
"VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images."
1. Windows Live Movie Maker
Trim your video clips to show only the parts you want. Add titles, transitions, music, and effects like panning and zooming.
2. Blender
Blender is a complicated tool with a steep learning curve. However, the benefits and features that come with this free tool make it hard to pass up. You can use it to add 3d shapes into live footage or shooting against blue- or green screens and you can also use it for video editing and putting your final footage together. "Blender's animations systems supports a variety of techniques and tasks, allowing the creation of complex animations."
3. Wax
"Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects."
4. Video Spin
Video Spin was put together by Pinnacle, a well known name in the video editing software industry. PC Magazine says that with Video Spin "you'll be rewarded with an easy-to-use, highly streamlined workflow for producing and uploading videos."
5. Virtual Dub
"VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images."
Monday, March 8, 2010
Digital Vs. Film
Here is one man's take on Film vs. Digital:
"Now that millions of cameras are in the hands of amateurs and professionals alike, there is a revolution in movie making and exhibition. All the rules of cinema are out the window, as these cameras now produce enough resolution that even theatrical projection is possible.
However, the theaters only have room for studio pictures made with major stars, movies that are well over $50 million in budget.
DVD releasing and Internet streaming are now the most frequent mode of exhibition for the great majority of professional movies. The amateurs exhibit their extravaganzas on Youtube, Myspace and their clones.
Where does this leave filmmaking? Filmmaking is preserved by a few filmmakers around the world. Ironically, filmmaking has been invigorated by the Digital Revolution. Even though indie producers make movies with digital cameras, film is still king.
All the professional digital cameras have features to produce the “film look.” There are lens attachments and myriads of plug-ins. Digital movie makers buy thousands of dollars worth of plug-ins for their expensive cameras and, moreover, spend thousands more on editing suites and computers. It is not unusual for a digital producer to spend $100,000 or even $200,000 on digital gear to simulate the “look of film.”
Many young movie makers are oblivious to the fact that a filmmaker can shoot an entire 35mm feature film for $50,000 – including camera, sound, film stock, developing, editing, negative cutting and printing.
But the hysteria to go digital is so great that producers go stark raving mad and buy the latest digital cameras that are literally obsolete by the time they read the user manuals. They want to shoot digital movies so bad that they ignore the fact that they’re now spending twice the money they would’ve spent if they’d shot their movies on film.
Film is dead, long live film."
"Now that millions of cameras are in the hands of amateurs and professionals alike, there is a revolution in movie making and exhibition. All the rules of cinema are out the window, as these cameras now produce enough resolution that even theatrical projection is possible.
However, the theaters only have room for studio pictures made with major stars, movies that are well over $50 million in budget.
DVD releasing and Internet streaming are now the most frequent mode of exhibition for the great majority of professional movies. The amateurs exhibit their extravaganzas on Youtube, Myspace and their clones.
Where does this leave filmmaking? Filmmaking is preserved by a few filmmakers around the world. Ironically, filmmaking has been invigorated by the Digital Revolution. Even though indie producers make movies with digital cameras, film is still king.
All the professional digital cameras have features to produce the “film look.” There are lens attachments and myriads of plug-ins. Digital movie makers buy thousands of dollars worth of plug-ins for their expensive cameras and, moreover, spend thousands more on editing suites and computers. It is not unusual for a digital producer to spend $100,000 or even $200,000 on digital gear to simulate the “look of film.”
Many young movie makers are oblivious to the fact that a filmmaker can shoot an entire 35mm feature film for $50,000 – including camera, sound, film stock, developing, editing, negative cutting and printing.
But the hysteria to go digital is so great that producers go stark raving mad and buy the latest digital cameras that are literally obsolete by the time they read the user manuals. They want to shoot digital movies so bad that they ignore the fact that they’re now spending twice the money they would’ve spent if they’d shot their movies on film.
Film is dead, long live film."
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