Filmmaking

Improvisation: Vertical Videos Offer iPad Users a New Experience

Christoph A. Geiseler | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Aesthetics, New Media, India, Insights, Vertical Videos, Media Tips, Improvisation, Filmmaking Technique, Filmmaking, Ipad Video, Media News

Smartphones, tablets, and rotating monitors make it possible for users to watch videos in a vertical format that was never possible on conventional screens. Here are 10 tips for filmmakers who want to produce vertical videos.

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New Frontier: Sundance Opens Up Conversation Between Hollywood and Tech

Gina Hall | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: New Frontiers, Film Technology, Storytelling, Filmmaking, Film, New Frontiers Film, Storytelling Techniques, Los Angeles News

I recently sat down with Michelle Satter to chat about how the New Frontiers program is helping open up the conversation between filmmakers and the tech crowd to facilitate collaboration in the name of storytelling.

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Watching Nick Day's Film Mindville Grow: A Slideshow

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: The Consciousness Chronicles, Nick Day, Indiegogo, Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela, Mindville, Slidepollajax, Filmmaking, Animation, Arts News

Filmmaker Nick Day is stepping a bit outside his comfort zone -- or seems to at first glance -- to make an animated film about the inner workings of our busiest organ: The brain.

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There Are No More Movie Stars (Or Why We Must Change Conventional Thinking About Making Movies

Peter Paige | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Reality TV, Hollywood Actors, The Artist, Bridesmaids, Actors, Movie Making, Filmmaking, Documentary Filmmaking, Jennifer Aniston, Meryl Streep, Film Industry, The Kardashians, Real Housewives, Celebrity, Kim Kardashian, Celebrities, Movie Stars, Los Angeles News

There are no more movie stars. I blame TMZ and its reality show brethren, who have taken all the mystery out of celebrity. In movie-making, like pretty much every other business, the paradigm has changed, and we must respond accordingly.

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The Toughest Job in the Movie Biz: Writing the Original Song

Philip Moross | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Streets of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Movie, Filmmaking, Songwriting, Best Original Score, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

The bad news for fans of original songs is that Hunger, albeit a great audience pleaser with a fine score by James Newton Howard, has no original song included in the body of the film (three original songs were ganged up to play in the end titles).

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Can I Come in Already?

Dominique Adams | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Moviemaking, Filmmaking, Entertainment, Entertainment News

I am writing right now from the middle of the ocean. Somewhere in the Western Caribbean, from a tiny crew cabin on a cruise ship where I work as a per...

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Do You Tell Stories Like You Sing Karaoke? Here Are Three Things to Save You

Karl Gude | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Photography, Photos, Story, Slides, Writing, Lesbian, Narrative, Storytelling, Journalism, Presentations, Video, Powerpoint, Filmmaking, Campfire, Advertising, Narrate, Public Relations, Keynote, Media Narratives, Culture News

That's me, at left, listening to campfire stories long ago. "Was your grandmother a lesbian?" I asked. I was responding to a student's question ab...

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L!fe Happens at the Atlanta Film Festival

Kat Coiro | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Life Happens, Michael Chabon, Filmmaking, Children, Atlanta, Atlanta Film Festival, Kate Bosworth, Johnny Cash, Arts, Kat Coiro, L!Fe Happens, Fallon Goodson, Krysten Ritter, Culture News

Atlanta was the third city in which I've had the chance to watch my new movie in front of an audience. I sat in the back row and was able to genuinely lose myself in the story for the first time.

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See Tomorrow's Big Filmmakers Today

Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Wim Wenders, New Films/New Directors, Video, Filmmaking, Steven Spielberg, Lincoln Center, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Spike Lee, Film, Moma, Filmmaker, Cinema, Arts News

"New Directors/New Films" has sparked the careers of some of today's biggest filmmakers: Steven Spielberg, Wim Wenders and Spike Lee, for instance, al...

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Do People Who Heavily Self-Promote Not Feel Shame at the Tackiness of It or Do They Power Through It?

Quora | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Self-Promotion, Self Promotion, Writer, Artist, Art, Artists, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, Filmmaker, Studios, Arts News

This question originally appeared on Quora. By Marco North, Creative Director, Bittersweet Group There is a sort of defeatist position held by som...

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The Benefits of Making a Film With Little Money

Mike Wallis | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Filmmaking, Good for Nothing, Entertainment News

Billy Wilder once said: "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." That quote was up on our production office/bedroom wall throughout the making of Good for Nothing.

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What If the Proof Is Also In the Making of the Pudding?

Kat Coiro | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Justin Long, Evan Rachel Wood, A Case of You, L!Fe Happens, Film Crew, Brendan Fraser, Filmmaking, Krysten Ritter, Kat Coiro, While We Were Here, Arts News

In order to feed our artistic hunger we have to believe that there are new stones to turn over, new levels of consciousness, new inspirations, new ways of seeing the world. Unlike a piece of music or a painting, I can't walk away from a movie set knowing exactly what I've just made.

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Documentary Filmmaker: What I Really Do

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Photography, Documentary, Filmmaking, Documentary Film, Movies, Comedy News

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The Long Road to Peace -- and a Short Film Nomination

Terry George | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: The Academy Awards, The Oscars, Belfast, Short Films, Filmmaking, Oscar Nominations, The Shore, Academy Award Nominees, In the Name of the Father, Ireland, Oscars, Northern Ireland, The Troubles, Oscar Nominees, Academy Award Nominations, Academy Awards, Killough Bay, Oscar Short Films, Culture News

Our film The Shore is the story of one small act of reconciliation, yet it mirrors the courageous achievement of the people of Northern Ireland, Protestant and Catholic, who after 800 years of division and bloodshed came together to talk and make their peace with one another.

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D.C. Central Kitchen Film Project Nets $40,000 Funds

HuffingtonPost.com | Megan Arellano | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Dc Impact, Kickstarter, Brendan Canty, Joblessness, D.C. Central Kitchen, Christoph Green, Robert Egger, Culinary-Job-Training-Programs, Video, Unemployment, Independent Film, Filmmaking, Trixie-Films, Liberation, D.C., DC News

WASHINGTON -- With just six hours before its deadline, Trixie Films secured $40,000 in Kickstarter funding to film a documentary about D.C. Central Ki...

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TEDxAthens 2011 -- What Took You So Long to Make Films Disruptive?

Sebastian Lindstrom | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Ted, Tedx, Athens, Greece, TEDx Athens, Tedx Conferences, Documentary Filmmaking, Filmmaking, Impact News

Bringing some much-needed positive energy to a country wracked by economic woes, the theme of this year's TEDx event was disruption. From politics to storm chasing to filmmaking; how do we change the rules of the game?

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Charlotte Gainsbourg May Star In von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac'

Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Jane Birkin, Antichrist, Auteur, Serge Gainsbourg, Filmmaking, Cannes, Lars Von Trier, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Lars-Von-Trier-Nymphomaniac, Cannes Film Festival, Filmmaker, Arts News

Charlotte Gainsbourg, the actress daughter of Jane Birkin and French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, may star in Lars von Trier's latest film, but...

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The Only Way to See a Film

Ridley Scott | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Movie Makers, Special Effects, Technology, Filmmaking, Films, Ridley Scott, Blu-Ray, Dvds, Blu Ray, Entertainment News

It has never made sense to me that those preoccupied with how movies are delivered have for years written off "physical media" as "dead" even though the evidence shows it isn't happening and won't for years to come.

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Step Into This Incredible Doc -- Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

Brad Balfour | Posted 12.17.2011

Having grown up enjoying Roger Corman's filmic retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's horror tales, his garish productions were lodged in my brain forever. So when I saw Corman's World, a flood of memories returned.

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Tate Modern Shows Tacita Dean: FILM. New Commission for the Turbine Hall (VIDEO)

VernissageTV | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Tate Modern, Filmmaking, Tacita Dean, Unilever, Contemporary Art, Turbine Hall, Film, UK Arts, London, Video, Arts News

The twelfth commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London has been realized by the Berlin-based artist Tacita Dean. Dean conceived a piec...

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The Life Out Loud: An Interdependent World

MeiMei Fox | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Goethe, Connected, Filmmaking, Interdependence, Webby Awards, Documentary, Movie, Tiffany Shlain, Planned Parenthood, Connected the Film, Entertainment News

Connected tells the story of how, in this digital age, we are more interdependent than ever before. The wellbeing of family members depends on events happening on other continents.

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5 Viral Videos That Will Inspire You To a Greater Vision of Life

Max Lugavere | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Television, Filmmaking, Viral Videos, Meaning, Storytelling, Media, Film, Ai, Max Lugavere, Ted, Culture News

My favorite clips to share, like the pinnacle of any art form, inspire their audience to a greater vision of life -- a vision of what's possible that they might not have had before.

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In Bollywood, Female Directors Find New Respect

The New York Times | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Female Directors, India, Bollywood Directors, Indian Women, Indian Film Director, Filmmaking, Bollywood, Women Directors, Women in Film, Women News

The director Zoya Akhtar laughs as she tells the story of the Steadicam operator who worked on her first film, “Luck by Chance.” He had earlier wo...

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Hollywood's New Starving Stars

Leo C. Wolinsky | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Hollywood Producers, Filmmakers, Low Budget Films, Producers, Filmmaking, Hollywood, Culture News

A new generation of young movie producers has appeared on the scene, making low-budget films without the backing -- or interference -- of big studios.

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Queries and Hopes for the Future of Storytelling

Kieran Fitzgerald | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Creativity, Authors, Milan Kundera, Interactive, Filmmaking, Self-Publishing, Youtube, Storytelling, Blogging, Culture News

It's my hope that going forward we do not come to undervalue, or lose sight of, art's special capacity. I hope future generations will be able to spend their moments interacting with the ever-replenishing fount of a composition.

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