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Our Side of Joy – A Difficult, Yet Rewarding, Lesson in Documentary Filmmaking

Saturday, July 10, 2010

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O.k. seriously, this one film has been an entire crash course in documentary filmmaking and sometimes this is what true learning is all about. This film has been an absolute struggle for me as I’ve mentioned before. When it came down to it, I was on the right path but I was just completely unable [...]

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Useful Tools For Independent Filmmakers

Saturday, October 17, 2009

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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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Tampa Bound – More Shooting for Our Side of Joy

Monday, July 13, 2009

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Well, I had to make a very difficult decision to shoot more footage for my documentary “Our Side of Joy”. After having returned from an excellent workshop on documentary story structure given by Fernanda Rossi, I knew I was going to have to do more shooting. The best thing is that the workshop was so [...]

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Going Mobile – Portable Filmmaking

Friday, May 8, 2009

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So, I’m planning another trip out of the country and the fist thing that came to mind was how heavy my bags and gear were on my last trip. After my last trip, I’d already decided that I absolutely had to travel lighter on future international excursions. I have always made an effort to travel [...]

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Moving Forward – Staying on Track

Sunday, December 28, 2008

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I’m working on one of my docs and I’m glad that I’ve been experimenting with other films in between because I learned about a simple feature Adobe Premier offers (Multiple sequences in a project. A basic feature, I know.) that has helped me tremendously with organizing the footage for this doc and helping me know [...]

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Domino Effect

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

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By Tressa Sanders – “ This story was created while participating in a writing exercise where a writer looks at a picture then writes a story using the picture. I used four pictures instead of one. This version of this story can not be reproduced unless you obtain permission for the photographer of these images.” [...]

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