Wintery thanks to my mate Darren for pushing this in my direction. Below is some footage filmed on the impressively tiny GoPro HD Hero camera. Skywalker to San Francisco Airport: GoPro HERO HD from Philip Bloom on Vimeo. This clip was shot in 720p 60p and converted to 30p and, to be honest, though impressive for its size it is not the most astonishing piece of HD footage you’ll ever see. However Phil Bloom has married it to a brilliant…

If you haven’t picked up a copy of Jon Reiss’ Think Outside the Box Office do yourself a favor and grab one now. Whatever kind of distribution and marketing strategy you are pursuing for your film (and if you haven’t got a strategy yet this book will help you develop one!), there are loads of good tips and ideas in here for you. This is a time when we all need to be sharing as many resources as possible to…

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You can tell it’s nearly Christmas because the arguments in the Shooter’s bulletins have descended to a seasonal lull of point scoring and scruffy logic. Glancing through today’s arguments about the National Minimum Wage and Rage Against The Machine was like trying to eat a massive fatty dinner whilst three generations of the same dysfunctional family squabbled over the party hats and who’s go it is with the remote control. I thought Rage Against The Machine had split up and…

The joy of a 48hr Film Challenge is seeing what people create when placed under constraint. The most perfect example of this is Michael Pearce and Emma Rozanski’s film Occupied. Emma, Michael and their one actor James all met for the first time at the start of the 48hrs. Their only equipment was Emma’s battered laptop and her digital stills camera. Not, I hasten to add, a fancy digital SLR like Chris and I used in our film but a…

Fittingly for a film festival on an island closer to France than England, our forth confirmed filmmaker was French born Londoner, Gaelle Denis. She drew the genre “Crime” and the title “Morning Mist” and two (and a bit) days later she and her crack international team of experts had made this… Click below to watch Morning Mist… My brother and me first met Gaelle through Cinema Extreme. Her film “After The Rain” was part of the same slate as “Hallo…

Rob Morgan is a filmmaker with a twisted and darkly innovative imagination which goes some small to explain how, when asked to make, in 48hrs, a Western called Overtaken he came up with this… Click below to watch and vote for Overtaken… Rob is someone who’s work I had previously admired from afar. There is photographic proof that we were previously in the same room because we were both part of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow an increasingly long time…

When filmmaker Alex Jacob’s arrived in Jersey for the Vauxhal Branchage 48hr Film Challenge he was unlucky enough to draw the genre Fantasy and the unwieldy title Dashes Of Yellow. I thought we had our work cut out with a war movie but if there was genre/title coupling I’d rather not have had this is it… However Alex and his team rose to the challenge, click on the picture to see their response… Chris and I came up with idea…

At last! Your chance to watch and vote for my work! (I know you’ve been wanting to do this for ages…) Keen readers will know that at the start of October, Chris and I lead a fearless guerrilla unit into the hills of Jersey and made a short film called “Truth In The Valley” as part of the Vauxhall Branchage 48hr Filmmaking Challenge. Keener readers and those with their fingers on the pulse will already be aware that all five…

Many years ago I was drunk in a pub in Hatfield. There was no particular cause beyond being in Hatfield which is usually reason enough. However the prospect of another night of not very much suddenly seemed more than any of us could bare so we decided to go to the cinema, which meant trekking across the very unpedestrianised part of town to get the Hatfield Galleria. Drunkenly we picked a film almost at random. Adam had seen the poster…