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Shipping Container Home Project – Part 3

Well, it’s official. There are two teams playing the game of container home building. There are the “Get Rich”s and there are the “Get Free”s. I mentioned in my first container home post I felt there was a hovering aura that some are trying to figure out a way to make money from container homes. [...]

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Making Music…

Here is where, a typical record label, traditional or independent, spouts off a long list of fancy equipment and technical jargon that makes it sound like they are really doing something akin to rocket science. Well it’s not that deep here. I can still get professional sounds without having to load up with expensive gear [...]

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Useful Tools For Independent Filmmakers

Becoming a filmmaker is a big step that requires you to use and have access to many resources in order to not only make the best films you can but to handle all tasks not related to a specific film project. There is a lot more to making films than just the movies themselves. I [...]

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New Short Flim

I’m taking a break from working on my two documentaries to make a new short film. I was going to film a short called Old Wounds but I’ve had to re-evaluate the project. I spent all last night going over the script and determining what would be needed to film the movie. Ultimately now isn’t [...]

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Setting The Standard: Reclaiming the Art of Filmmaking

What does the future hold for the art of making films? I’ve recently been visually consuming mass amounts of films from the 1950s to 2008 and all I can say is … WOW. It was quite disturbing to see the incredible decline in the quality of films in such a short time period. Equally disturbing [...]

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Filmmakers Beware: Giving Away Your Work For Pennies

Filmmakers beware! I recently decided to explore the idea of being paid for video content. In doing so, I came across an article, Getting Paid for Content, by Sheila Curran Bernard. I’d originally been out searching for filmmakers who had actually been paid by Current.com for their work. I found none. Current TV was requesting [...]

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Our Side of Joy – Documentary Trailer 2

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Charise: A Portrait … Documentary Trailer 1

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Our Side of Joy – Documentary Trailer 1

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What Kind of Filmmaker Are You?

So you’ve decided you want to make your own visual media or films. Well, now you have to decide what kind of filmmaker you are going to be. This is an introductory post and also appeals to home, small, and medium sized businesses who are considering making their own PSAs, Commercials and other promotional video. There [...]

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