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Raindance and Direct Line Challenge You to Tell a Story in 40 Seconds Straight
Fancy yourself as the next Martin Scorsese or Tom Hooper? Well this may be the competition for you.

RED vs. Alexa? Depends on the job.
Occupying the niche in the industry that I do (as a colorist not associated with a lab or telecine house), I g...

So You Want to Make a Movie?
"So you want to make a movie?" That was the message that flowed through my mind when I first came up with the ...

DA VINCI for Free is the best marketing strategy ever
Some colorists I have talked to have been very disappointed to discover that Blackmagic Da Vinci is about to b...

Get Someone to Help you with the Scissors
Guy Ducker provides some advice on why it's a good idea to get someone else to edit your film.

Lessons Learned on a Microbudget Horror Film
Werner Herzog famously stole a camera he'd officially won in a film competition in order to make his first few...

Review: Pocket Call Sheet for iPhone/iPad
For a 1st AD or production manager, producing daily call sheets is arguably one of the most critical tasks dur...

Anatomy of a Scene: The Building Blocks of a Memorable Movie
From the outside looking in, a movie is just a collection of scenes that are tied together. So what separates ...

The filmmaking.net Links Directory is Now Live!
Well, it's been slightly longer in the making than we'd hoped, but that's ancient history now. The filmmaking...
