I’m attending two different training seminars on the business of film distribution online and offline in the coming weeks. One is going to be in Maryland and the other will be in Los Angeles. Why am I going? To sharpen the saw of course! I invite you to come attend also!
When I first the video I was ready to fly out to Los Angeles to attend his seminar but when I heard that he’s doing it in Virginia (4 hours drive from me) I thought that this is great! I booked my seat and just need to make some travel arrangements and I’m good to go.
If you’re someone who is serious about learning the business of how films are distributed in the market today and what you need to do to get yourself a distribution deal then I recommend that you come attend.
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I got an email from Stacey Parks of FilmSpecific.com from her weekly email list regarding a seminar taking place on October 11-12 by Alexander Vickers titled, “Make Your Money Back” on how to distribute your film online with proven internet marketing strategies. There’s more info on the link I provided. I personally haven’t attended any of his seminars nor am I enrolled in his online marketing for filmmakers course.
I registered earlier this week and I’m looking forward to meeting the people there.
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If you’re in the local area or want to attend the seminars regardless, I recommend that you register asap before seats fill up.
I’m looking forward to applying what I learn in the release of Tufaan. This should be exciting
With time we need to up our game or boredom in old skills will kill you or your work. In order to progress you need to get our of your comfort zone. This is typically difficult for some people (especially me). Sometime we need a little bit of a push to move us forward. The following video was my push to get out of my comfort zone:
These past couple months I’ve been looking into means of upping the production value of videos I’ve been producing while decreasing cost in terms of time and money. After attending a couple seminar lectures and reading a few more books on the subject I realized that if I’m to up my game I’m going to have to learn Adobe After Effects or find some people who know the tool.
I did find some people who know the program but the factor of financial resources to compensate for time became an issue. Finally when boredom on current skills set in I took the jump. If you saw the post about iwannagetmarried.com video, The effects were done mainly in Adobe After Effecfs. I was quite suprized at the results it gave.
There were two main skills that I’ve leared with the last project:
Text effects
Converting a still image into 3D
With those two elements alone there is so much that one can do in terms of the creative potential.
What do I mean by “filming totally naked”? The trailer above was shot with a “naked” Canon HV20…
…without any special 35MM lens attachments or gizmos. Just your simple $600 camera.
It’s amazing what sort of results keeping to simple principals of video, photo, lighting, sound, and editing can get you.
Personally I’m looking to get the Canon HF100.
It’s similar to to the HV20 in price and features, except that instead of recording to tape in HDV, it records to SDHC flash media in AVCHD (compressed high definition) format. Personally I hate tape and the time it takes to transfer.
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