Indie filmmaker Andy Yardy looks at exploring the world and seeing how technology impacts societies, armed only with an iPhone!
Around the World in 80 Hours (Indie Trailer)
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Socializing Success: Marketing an Online Film With No Budget (Article)
My name is James G. Wall and I made the feature film, ‘The Truth About Romance’. The film was released on YouTube and in one year it has reached over half a million views. This is an incredible achievement, one that I never thought would happen, when you consider the film is 90 minutes long, has no star names, made by a guy nobody knows and has no marketing budget, why would anybody watch it?
Bright Young Thing: A Conversation With Director Benjamin Wicks (Interview)
Making an amazing film is not a prerequisite for getting noticed in the world of microbudget filmmaking. Benjamin Wick’s, Slide Down South, is one such film that deserves recognition because it succeeds where films with a Hollywood budget fail. It forces us not only to look introspectively at our own rash judgements, but also at societal perceptions of age, relationships, loneliness and love...
[EXPIRED] Summer Cinema Discount: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema for US$495 (Industry Press Release)
Blackmagic Design today announced an exciting Summer Special discount for the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera for the low price of US$495. With a normal recommended retail price of US$995, this Summer Special represents incredible value and is available for a limited time and will end on the 31st of August 2014.
More Magic For Your Rig: New Blackmagic Camera Firmware 1.8 (Industry Press Release)
Fremont, CA – 24 June, 2014 – Blackmagic Design today announced the release of Blackmagic Camera Update 1.8 software which includes updated features for all Blackmagic Design cameras. Blackmagic Camera Update 1.8 is available now for download free of charge for all existing Blackmagic Camera customers from the Blackmagic Design support page on the website.
The new Blackmagic Camera Update 1.8 software features a completely new code base for all Blackmagic digital film cameras so provides a foundation for new features. This update supports the original wide dynamic range 2.5K Blackmagic Cinema Camera, Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera and the Blackmagic Production Camera 4K.
This all new code base also improves performance and includes a new modern user interface similar in design to the new URSA camera announced at NAB. This new user interface is included in all models of cameras available from Blackmagic Design, allowing a nice clean fresh look.
Blackmagic Camera 1.8 adds compressed RAW DNG support for the Blackmagic Production Camera 4K model, and this allows RAW recording in real time so all sensor data can be captured allowing more range and much higher image quality when doing post production and color grading. DaVinci Resolve 11, also available today, fully supports RAW grading and rendering to final output direct from the RAW camera original files. This means customers get incredible first generation masters, with a solution that edits RAW files as easily and as responsively as a normal video file.
Disney, Star Wars, & Rian Johnson: What We Can Learn from Star Wars Episode VIII (Editorial)
The fact that Disney/LucasArts is in the process of making an offer to an Indie writer/director that I love to continue the main Star Wars saga is almost unprecedented! The news that Rian Johnson would replace JJ Abrams for Star Wars VIII, which we’re just hearing today, is the biggest leap we’ve seen from Disney to date. (The fact that Johnson’s IMDB page has been updated with these facts...)