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Writing Day 5

Posted Friday, July 24th, 2009

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Writing Day 4

Posted Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

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Writing Day 3

Posted Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

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Writing Day 2

Posted Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

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Writing Day 1

Posted Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

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Love Is Also Found On Tees.

Posted Sunday, July 12th, 2009

If the trailer for Bevan’s film wasn’t enough to encourage you to come out to the BFI Southbank this monday night, then howsabout this straight8 from Jacqueline Wright and Alice Lowe whose work I’ll be showing alongside. ( http://www.shootingpeople.org/watch/film.php?film_id=52894 ) How can you possibly stay away?

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Love Does Grow On Trees.

Posted Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

So next Monday at the BFI I’ll be screening the work of Bevan Walsh, including this… (http://www.shootingpeople.org/watch/film.php?film_id=53274) Please come, it’ll be fun.

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Digital Bootcamp Wiki

Posted Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

I created a wiki – digitalbootcamp.wikispaces.com – for the Shooting People Digital Bootcamp workshop conducted on July 4th 2009 at the Frontline Club – taught by James Mullighan, Harriet Fleuriot and myself. Like the workshop itself, most of these resources are aimed at documentary filmmakers but narrative filmmakers can find lots of good ideas here too. Please add to the wiki if you have additional links, tips and tricks to share – we want plenty of collaboration in the spirit

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Chris Anderson’s Free available for, um, free!

Posted Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

You  can read a free version of Anderson’s Free: The Future of a Radical Price on this very blog! You can also download an audio version on his Long Tail blog. For a critical view read Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker review of the book. Gladwell concludes: “The only iron law here is the one too obvious to write a book about, which is that the digital age has so transformed the ways in which things are made and sold that

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Split Focus at the BFI No.5: Bevan Walsh and Jacqueline Wright & Alice Lowe.

Posted Monday, July 6th, 2009

After the usual irregular gap, I am delighted to once more be bringing a pair of fine filmmakers to your attention and laying out both them and their work for your edification and delight beneath the hallowed roof of the British Film Institute. For those of you either new to Shooting People (481 of you last month) or just plain inattentive, let me explain. After years of scouring the Shooting People community for films of quality and distinction I realised

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