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Indie Spirit in Hollywood: Fire in the Mirror (Editorial)

Posted by on Apr 2, 2014 in Articles, Editorials, Featured, Industry, MicroFilmmaking, News | 0 comments

I hope that filmmakers everywhere will take notice of the upcoming feature film version of Oculus, from micro-budget-birthed director, Mike Flanagan, which will be coming to theaters nationwide on April 11th! (If you missed out, we did a fun reprint of the original critique of his 2006 Oculus short last week!) And it's not just to support one of our own that I would encourage you to check out the film in the theaters, it's that Flanagan's filmmaking deserves to be seen on the big...

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Trane & Miles (Short Critique)

Posted by on Mar 19, 2014 in Critiques, Critiques (Short Narrative), Featured, Narrative, Short Length | 0 comments

March 2nd and April 22nd of 1959, Miles Davis and John Coltrane teamed up to record “Kind of Blue,” an album that would become one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time and would mold the sound of most of the jazz that came after. Trane & Miles tells a possible tale of these momentous recording sessions between these iconic musicians from the fictionalized perspective of a post-life Miles Davis, who’s had some time to reflect on things and really focus on his most endearing memories.

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Padcaster 2 (Equipment Review)

Posted by on Jan 30, 2014 in Equipment, Featured, Reviews, Reviews (Equipment) | 0 comments

When I first used the iPad to film clips of my most recent child’s post-birth cooing, I realized that there was an interesting advantage to shooting with the somewhat unwieldy device: it forced you to hold your arms apart, more like you were holding a Fig Rig, which in turn meant your footage was much more stable than it would’ve been shooting with a smaller device (like your iPhone). Plus, the super huge viewing screen made focus issues virtually a thing of...

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