“…dark, small, stroby, headache inducing, alienating. And expensive. The question is: how long will it take people to realize and get fed up?” via Why 3D doesn’t work and never will. Case closed. – Roger Ebert’s Journal. A lovely debunk of 3D by one cinema’s all time great artisans… have to say though, this time round 3D cinema doesn’t feel like a passing fad… but I would love to hear from anyone who is especially in love with it.
Obviously I didn’t expect “Tron: Legacy” to be any good, no film with a colon in the title ever is. I wasn’t disappointed, it really is pretty terrible. It was always going to be interesting to see how they dealt with the original film’s central conceit, that inside a computer there is a totalitarian state and the characters we dispatch in our gaming are actually the victims of Roman style gladiatorial justice. This is a silly idea but a compellingly…
Or at least this is the wonderfully provocative headline to an email I’ve just had from the London Short Film Festival’s Phil Ilson. Phil’s email continues… “In a time of major arts cuts and a period of recession, short films are not high on the agenda in the general scheme of things. Because of this, the traditional career paths in the film industry are no longer sustainable. It’s year zero, but it’s also a creative time for UK film; a…
The official shortlist of G-Technology’s Driven Creativity Competition – open to aspiring and professional photographers, musicians and filmmakers in the UK, France and Germany – has now been revealed! Decided using a Bayesian Rating system based on the peer online votes, the fantastically creative shortlist can be viewed here: www.g-technology.eu/competition/shortlist The shortlisted entries will now be judged by a jury panel consisting of expert G-Technology creative ambassadors, including Killzone composer, Joris de Man; Grammy award-winning producer (for Sting) Kipper; Academy-award…
Top blog from Ingrid here – www.tribecafilminstitute.org/blog/102928684.html – about the impact that HTML 5 may have on online storytelling, well worth a read… As Ingrid says, if you’ve not seen Chris Milk’s “The Wilderness Down Town” then it’s worth the effort, and a great example of what HTML5 can do. It’s a beautiful composition inspired by a track off the new Arcade Fire album The Suburbs, though I’m not sure if anyone is paying too much attention to the irony…
Look at this amazing thing my brother found… a plug-in that automatically syncs your sound and picture rushes. There’s been some grumbling on-list recently about the rise of DSLR filmmaking and one of the common complaints is that a DSLR forces you to run separate sound. Oddly this was actually one of the things that drew me to 5D in the first place. OK sure, so I’m perverse but I often find convenience can be the curse of creativity. I’ve…
The G-Tech “Driven Creativity” competition closes on the 30th September so get your entries finished soon in order to stand a chance of winning a 4 terabyte raid array. That’s four hundred quid’s worth of storage… not to mention a grand prize of €5,000 and the chance to have your work showcased at a gallery in London’s Brick Lane… Here’s someone else’s entry. Et Miaow Alors from Adrian Westbrook on Vimeo. Better than that? Enter here… http://www.g-technology.eu/competition/
The backlash has started! For everyone grinding their teeth over the over exuberance surrounding DSLRs (for the ungeeks these are digital stills cameras that shoot HD video which have in many quarters been hailed as the future of low budget filmmaking) here’s something that should bring a smile… In today’s Filmmaker’s bulletin the expertly knowledgable Andrew Doughty describes the DSLR as “…an abomination. They are a mistake…” and he was arguing with the equally sage Karel Bata who’d just called…
So anyway… a couple of weeks back the main topic of conversation on Shooting People was about online distribution. Whilst the discussion around the role the internet can play in a film’s distribution strategy has been rather overtaken by the hubbub surrounding the impending demise of the Film Council, the one thing that last week’s shock announcement makes clear is that more than ever the future of your film is in your hands. Whether they want to or not Independent…
Right so, continuing my brief survey of the online distribution methods that Chris and I use to make money from our short films, next up is the Dynamo Player. Dynamo offer a simple embeddable “player” which is, to all intents and purposes, the same as the YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion or countless other streaming video players that now litter the internet. The BIG difference is that Dynamo charges the viewer – enabling the creator to earn money from their content. For…
