The very smart and savvy Sakia Wilson-Brown has written a series of posts for IndieGoGo on viral marketing. You can read the 3rd post here and then follow the links at the bottom for parts 1 and 2 (the IndieGoGo blog is doing funny things to my browser which is why I’m linking to Saskia’s blog).
I love Twitter because although it can definitely become a time suck, it has also led me to discover so many interesting people, events, articles, websites and ideas. I have total geek love for film but I am also interested in lots of other things and Twitter allows me to indulge in all my random passions from social change, to entrepreneurship and technology in Africa, to open source solutions, to mobile health, to progressive and environmental business practices, to feminism……
I’m really thrilled that Shooting People is involved in so many fantastic events this month – from the Rooftop Films panels on Saturday June 13th to the Short Sighted event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Sunday June 21st. And now we are also doing a special screening of the powerful documentary Pray The Devil Back To Hell with producer (and all round amazing person) Abigail Disney in attendance. Please join us at DCTV on Thursday, June 25th –…
We (Shooting People) have gotten together with Rooftop Films, Cinereach and IndiePix to bring you some really great filmmaking panels before the screening of Persona Non Grata at Rooftop Films this Saturday, June 13th. This is part of the Rooftop Films 4-day Panorama Weekend which runs from Wednesday to Saturday this week with fantastic films screening each night: www.rooftopfilms.com Panel Schedule: 5:00-6:00pm Message vs. Craft: The Art of Effective “Issue” Storytelling When a filmmaker takes on a topic related to…
“You look like Bob Geldof though innit, d’you know that? You look like Bob Geldof.” I nod and trot out my current line of how I recently met Johnny Turnball who, as well as being a Blockhead, also plays with Sir.Bob and he didn’t make the comparison the once and so perhaps it’s not as true as people suggest. This falls on deaf ears, the guy is already in a revere. “He doesn’t comb his hair. You know? He’s like…
My brother and I are filming some 30 second drama spots for a new NSPCC website and so a couple of days ago we were off on a recce, looking for a big house that can provide us with most of our locations. This lead us to a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend’s place in Islington. Admittedly it was a gloriously hot day with a perfect blue sky but the house was a minor paradise.…
Below is the video from a talk that producer Ted Hope gave at the New York Foundation for the Arts about how the film infrastructure is changing as creators and audiences take on new roles. “We must accept that being a filmmaker means taking responsibility for our films all the way through the process. Building the new infrastructure is the first step towards real media independence” Producer Ted Hope Discusses the Future of Finding Film Audiences from Reel 13 on…
My iPhone got wet in the rain in Toronto and subsequently died and I fell out of love a little. But then I got a new one and downloaded some photo apps and the love has returned. If people getting carried away with iPhone apps makes you come out in a rash look away now! This is my kitchen sink using the Camera Bag Magazine Filter. I love the colors. It doesn’t look quite this atmospheric without the filter. And…
What glorious weather. I haven’t felt quite this warm and lazily content since I was in Jersey last year, which is perhaps just a trick of the light because who’s that standing by the lift with her phone to her ear but Xanthe Hamilton, creator and director of the Branchage Film Festival, Jersey’s more civilised answer to Woodstock… However, whilst there is something of the Dryad about her, stumbling into her in the late sunshine is no piece of early…
