We’re back at full strength podcast with Adam, Doug, and Lance. We’re talking about all sorts of fun and useful stuff.
The Panel:
Adam (@adamfairholm)
Doug (@thedougmovement)
Lance (@omegabane)
Picks of the Week
Lance: The Complete Film Production Handbook
Doug: Tim and Eric (early work)
Adam: Ted Talks (JJ Abrams, James Cameron)
If you’re not familiar, Raaaaaaaandy (with 8 a’s) is a character Aziz Ansari plays in the Adam Sandler movie “Funny People”. They made a few online shorts in documentary format centered around him. Let’s check ‘em out!
Part I:
I recently came across this story in the New York Times. Basically, it’s the story of how some filmmakers managed to make a feature film for around $15,000. It opens Friday on IFC and video on demand.
Yes, $15,000 is on the high end, of what we talk about here, but this is a feature and that includes equipment (apparently).
What caught my eye about this story were the elements that would sound familiar to someone making a short for $200:
You’ve got that, right? Everyone can scrounge up everything on this list. So why is this film getting distribution? Well, here are some things you might not have in your pocket that they did:
Hey everyone, whether you like it or not we’re back with another episode of our DiY Filmmaking Podcast.
This week we’ve got @adamfairholm and @thedougmovement. Lance Johnson is off clubbing baby seals.
We’re talking about 3D Filmmaking and how it could affect DiY Filmmakers, YouTube’s new beta rentals program, and white balancing.
Here’s the file:
Here are some handy links:
A few weeks ago I wrote a post which was basically my review of the Sony HVR-A1U
I recently completed shooting on my first documentary, “Pope Michael“, using the Sony HVR-A1U
Let’s be honest here: the HVR-A1U
A short time after we started and named this blog, we realized there is another site called DiY Filmmaking Sucks, so we’re getting an inferiority complex every time we open up Google Reader:
Yes, we put our own blog into Google Reader, okay?
Anyways, the good folks at DiY Filmmaking sucks posted something that caught my eye: YouTube rentals. You can read all about it there and get a link to the application page (as well as a link to the private Beta Dynamo, which is doing something similar but more customizable), but the gist is you can offer rentals of your film on YouTube.
First reaction: this…is…awesome.
Mar 19
That was easy, we submitted our podcast and now it’s in the iTunes podcast directory. Here is the direct link (it will open up iTunes).
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=362797238
Check it out and subscribe!
We here at DiY Filmmaking have starting our own podcast – it was really fun to record, and we’ll be doing these on a regular basis. The panel is:
Adam Fairholm: @adamfairholm
Doug Klinger: @thedougmovement
Lance Johnson: @omegabane
Here is the audio file:
We’re submitting this to iTunes, so we’ll see how this goes. After we post this and get the Wordpress RSS feed for podcasts down, we’ll post it on the side bar to the right.
We had a little bit of trouble with an echo at the end, but we’ll get those first time technical snafus out of the way for episode 2.
Picks of the week this week are:
Lance: Macbook Pro
Doug: Scriviner
Adam: Film Festival Secrets
We also talk about Final Cut Pro
See you next episode!
The thing that makes the web awesome is the diversity. Every website you visit is different. Think of how boring things would be if every site was one template with different content. Hint: it would suck.
But there’s also a concept that programmers use that is applicable here. It’s called DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself. It basically means don’t re-invent the wheel. Creating a new and cool design for your site isn’t re-inventing the wheel, it’s inventing something that is unique and valuable.
So what is reinventing the wheel? That would be trying to recreate things that are done better elsewhere. For example, why create your own image gallery when you can use a free service like Flickr? Why host your own video when you can use one of the multitudes of hosting services out there? There are hundreds of coders out there working on making things you can use awesome, and in some cases you just can’t compete with that.
The idea is simple: make unique what should be made unique, and plug in other services to save time, effort, and money.
Let’s take a look at 10 things you free services we recommend for your film site.
Mar 16
Okay, so the Monday Roundup is a little late today. The DiY Filmmaking bloggers have been hard at work on some other cool projects (related to film, yes), and also working on the UPCOMING DIY FILMMAKING PODCAST!
It’s going to be cool. You gotta believe me.
But first, let’s take a look at some cool things from the DiY (and beyond) world happening around the web.
That Dude Who Swears From the RV Video Had a Documentary Made About Him
Remember this guy?
Someone made a documentary about him, for real. And it got picked up by a distributor. The good folks at the Documentary Blog have got the scoop.
If that doesn’t prove you can find documentary subjects in the strangest of places, then I don’t know what does.
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The internet is chock full of how to guides for doing pretty much anything you can think of to make films on a budget. DiY Filmmaking is a blog that brings you the best and the worst of all that, plus great tips, tutorials, and guides of our own.
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