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We have published 384 articles since November 2006. Here you can find them all by date of publication.
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July 2019
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Building Stories with Sound
This talk by filmmaker W. Alex Reeves took place at the 82nd FWD:labs Salon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_0LjyyA...
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March 2019
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Breaking Through: Simple Points for Taking the Next Career Step
This talk by DreamWorks animator David Badgerow took place at the 81st FWD:labs Salon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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February 2019
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The Art of Conversation: Small Talk to Big Deals
"Why I Design With A Story In Mind" by Andrew Linderman, founder and head storyteller at The Story Source, as seen at th...
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January 2019
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[Dailies] Bandersnatch, Basecamp, Roma
Filmmaker Jason Zada, who often experiments with interactive and non-linear storytelling, has a great write-up on Ne...
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December 2018
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10 Best Posts of 2018
This year we started up our Salon series again with 8 events, and published 11 articles on film, web, and design, in add...
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November 2018
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[Dailies] Smithsonian, Uber, Dr. Strangelove
Fisk Studio is behind the Smithsonian's latest re-branding, which made subtle changes to their logo and dropped "Ins...
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October 2018
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Why I Design With A Story In Mind
"Why I Design With A Story In Mind" by creative director Joseph Gilbert, from the most recent FWD:labs Salon at Kleverdo...
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September 2018
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Web Design Accessibility, Performance and Aesthetics
Color contrast ratios and WCAG standards. Pages with load budgets and no "jumbotron" carousels. CSS grid and the future ...
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August 2018
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[Dailies] Filmmaker’s View by ARRI, Cinematic Slant by Chris Thilk, Lyft’s Search Bar by UX Collective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pD9FRu2yL4 To celebrate 100 years in film, ARRI has a series of interviews called Fi...
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July 2018
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Getting Out of the Zone with My First Feature Film
Writer/director William Lu gave the guest talk at the 77nd FWD:labs Salon. "Getting Out of the Zone with My First Featur...
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June 2018
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Finance Hacks for Freelancers
Personal finance writer Jackie Lam's talk entitled "Finance Hacks for Freelancers" has tips on keeping cash flowing, bui...
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May 2018
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Producing a Non-Union Commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojrHKiOTlG8 This talk by producer Brooke Dooley took place at FWD:labs Salon #75 on M...
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April 2018
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Essential Elements of Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktcq-_PZe3c This talk with writer Hunter Phillips (The Write Script Tutor) took place...
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March 2018
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How Being More Proactive Has Helped My Acting Career
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnnkQz8byIs Eric Satterberg is an actor who you may recognize from "This Is Us," "Sha...
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February 2018
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Finding the Perfect Audio for Your Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk0408Q_oW4 Tim Hare is a composer and musician who has worked in production music an...
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January 2018
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Behind the Justin Timberlake “Say Something” Video
Some fun facts about the Justin Timberlake "Say Something" video featuring Chris Stapleton, which was all live with ...
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December 2017
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10 Best Posts of 2017
This year we published 11 articles on film, web, and design, in addition to sharing a few dozen posts on Facebook and Tw...
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November 2017
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We Need an Open Internet
https://vimeo.com/243867727 We thought net neutrality was safe when it was on the chopping block in 2014, where such ...
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October 2017
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[Dailies] No To Spec, Where To Convert, Create More Content
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=essNmNOrQto Creative agency Zulu Alpha Kilo penned an article two years ago that's st...
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September 2017
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Proof That Money Isn’t Everything
So when I decided to take the plunge and pursue freelancing full-time a couple years back, I did so with the intenti...
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August 2017
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[Dailies] Marketing Checklist for Side Projects, Copyright Law For Artists, Design System for Websites
Side projects often succeed when treated like real work. When you're not doing it all the time, Side Project Checkli...
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July 2017
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Viral Marketing Videos for Purple, Squatty Potty, and Dollar Shave Club
Explainer videos can be predictable. Here's a look at a few straight-forward products that had out-of-the-ordinary m...
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June 2017
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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s New “Music Film” Helps “Get The Job Done”
Hours before the latest U.S. travel ban goes into effect, Lin-Manuel Miranda's "music film" for the popular Hamilton mix...
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May 2017
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[Dailies] Pandora, Smashing Magazine, Milwaukee Ballet
Music video director Michel Gondry helmed this month's album cover ad for Pandora, marking their start to a #SoundsL...
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April 2017
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Put a Stake In It: 5 Tips for Building Tension in Your Stories
(Originally published March 1st on LinkedIn by The Story Source.) A few nights ago, all of us were taken by surpr...
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March 2017
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How We Run Facebook Ads
For anyone needing some expertise with tracking the effectiveness of social ads, here are some tips on how we make a...
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February 2017
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Behind the Controversial Budweiser, Audi, and 84 Lumber Super Bowl Ads
During the Super Bowl this last month, three ads stood out in touching upon polemic subject matters. For better or worse...
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January 2017
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[Dailies] Boxes, Shortcuts, and Budgets
In a world where there's a lot of prejudice and judgment, TV 2 in Denmark did a promo that takes a look at how easil...
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December 2016
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10 Best Posts of 2016
This year we published 11 articles on film, web, and design, in addition to sharing a few dozen posts on Facebook an...
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November 2016
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IMVDb’s Best Feature: Music Video Commentaries
One of the best features of The Internet Music Video Database (IMVDb) is providing artists and filmmakers the ability to...
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October 2016
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“Best of Luck with the Wall,” “Before The Flood,” and “We Are America”
Do you know what the entire U.S.-Mexico border looks like? Director Josh Begley wanted to show all 1,989 miles of it thr...
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September 2016
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[Dailies] Robert Richardson, David Bowie, and Ed Ruscha
Robert Richardson From his interview with The Talks: "I try to bend and be a chameleon towards what the director ...
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August 2016
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How The New York Times Showed Usain Bolt’s Gold Medal Runs at the Rio Olympics
With media banned by the IOC from using GIFs or live streamed video, The New York Times got especially creative. Here ar...
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July 2016
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The Benefits of Owning, Promoting, and Maintaining Your Official Website
Illustrator and filmmaker Matt Busch shared a concern that many people have been having recently: with all the socia...
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June 2016
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[Dailies] Mill’s Blackbird, Rally’s Parks App, Codrops’ Collective
https://vimeo.com/171939943 Visual effects shop The Mill worked with JemFX, Performance Filmworks and Keslow Camera t...
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May 2016
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10 Tips for Search & Social Marketing
One of our clients recently asked about the point of organic content like a on-going blog or social media strategy, ...
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April 2016
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[Dailies] Buscemi’s Background Video, NAPCAN’s Children Video, Mike Alger’s VR UI/UX Video
Shoemaker BUSCEMI recently used part of a commissioned short film as their website's hero video. It's provocative to...
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March 2016
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Tips on Teamwork from Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Bryan Cranson, and Hoyte Van Hoytema
Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu on Medium about undocumented dreamers: There is no human being who, as a res...
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February 2016
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Websites of the 2016 Oscar Nominees
In appreciation of all the nominees for the 2016 Academy Awards, here is another perspective at the 57 different nominee...
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January 2016
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[Dailies] Star Wars’ Effects, PewDiePie’s Niche, Snapchat’s Verticality
The most recent "Star Wars" film, "The Force Awakens," made an effort to bring back practical effects alongside cutt...
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December 2015
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10 Best Posts of 2015
This year we published 13 articles on film, web, and design, in addition to sharing a few dozen posts on Facebook / ...
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November 2015
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[Tenacity] “Ellis,” JR’s Short Film
In between doing oversized black-and-white paste-ups in cities around the world or collaborating with filmmakers Agn...
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October 2015
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Behind Surrealism in Car Advertising
It's so rare to see surrealism in advertising, let alone broadcast spots for cars and made with practical visual eff...
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September 2015
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[Dailies] Vertical Video, John Lasseter, Universal Pictures
I remember years ago when I started seeing high-end fashion stores with flat screens mounted vertically to better sh...
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August 2015
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How to Level Up on Your Creative Projects Without Burning a Hole in Your Pocket
If you’re like me, you get tons of ideas for creative projects you want to work on. I oftentimes feel momenta...
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“First Rule of Being a Cameraman” for the Rugby World Cup
"What's the first rule of being a cameraman? That's right! A cameraman does not speak! If you want to speak, you will sp...
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July 2015
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[Dailies] Shudder, True Detective, Split-Depth GIFs
Always a fan of film websites that rock the boat. Shudder is one: a paid, online video platform that focuses collect...
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June 2015
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Tips for Your Crowdfunding Video
Since the jumpstart to crowdfunding -- whether the platform of choice is Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Patreon, Seed & Spa...
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May 2015
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Design in Mind: 5 Steps for Telling A Design Story
Over the last three years, I've worked with a number of designers who have great ideas, but struggle to get colleagu...
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April 2015
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The New Online Indie Frontier
Today the film and television industry is changing rapidly and evolving faster than ever. With new digital distribu...
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March 2015
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Video on Facebook is Getting Better, But It’s Missing One Key Feature
Video hosted and shared on Facebook is changing. While Facebook has been a valuable marketing tool for films and ...
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February 2015
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Unconventional Wins: “Birdman,” “Ida,” “Grand Budapest” and More
While one can appreciate to-the-point thank you speeches, reminding us to "call your parents" and "thank your agent," he...
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Why the Super Bowl Sucked
The Super Bowl ads sucked so bad this year. All that angst and guilt and tender dad-child moments. I mean, itâ...
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January 2015
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[New Feature] How We Added Facebook to Login and Sign Up to FWD:labs
FWD:labs is all about going super fast forward through the doldrums and onto your latest and greatest work. Logging ...
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December 2014
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10 Best Posts of 2014
We published 23 articles on film, web, and design this year. Here are my favorite subjects covered this year, often ...
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[Dailies] The Wire’s Reframe, YouTube’s Vine, Sony’s “Interview”
There's a new debate about re-framing cinematography in post-production years later, not the way it was ever meant to ...
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November 2014
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The Solopreneur’s Guide to Giving Back During the Holidays
Did you have a stellar year? Did all your clients pay on time, you were constantly being given amazingly fun project...
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October 2014
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[Dailies] Terry Gilliam on Directors, “The Guest” on Soundtracks, Designers on Client Presentations
Back in 2011, Terry Gilliam's shared ten lessons for directors -- given to a Master Class to Moroccan film student...
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September 2014
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Steven Soderbergh’s Experiment with Remixing “Raiders”
Steven Soderbergh showcased an experiment in cinematic staging yesterday on his website, Extension 765. For educatio...
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Texting Portrayed in Film
An editor by day, filmmaker Tony Zhou has a series of videos that are both entertaining and educational, especially "A B...
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August 2014
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Making the Apps: How Screenwriter John August and His Team Make Apps for Screenwriters
Screenwriter John August wasn't content with the tools of his trade, so he teamed up to make his own company -- Quot...
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July 2014
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How Filmmakers Use Pinterest
The digital bulletin board called Pinterest has flourished for a lot of generalists (e.g. foodies, fashionistas, et ...
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Is It Popcorn Time?
Digital and disc distribution of cinematic content needs to catch up with the music industry. Cost, time, and access...
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June 2014
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[Dailies] Jason Zada vs. 150 GoPros, Dolby Vision vs. Your TV, Star Wars vs. Breaking Bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1kR_usCvkw Jason Zada is the director behind "Turbocharge the Everyday," an in...
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“Inspiring Advice” from Matthew Silver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7rXlbHtcqM "You can't get away from your heart. Because life is a paradox. Itâ...
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May 2014
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When a Short Helps Make a Feature
I was recently asked if short format work could lead to big picture deals. Instead of laughing off the incredibly un...
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Three Efforts for Defending Net Neutrality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtt2aSV8wdw There's protest -- both in Washington and all over our newsfeeds this...
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April 2014
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This Time It’s Personal: 3 Tips for Connecting with Your Audience
A few weeks ago, I was stuck in bed with the flu and was combing Netflix for something to watch. After a bit of brow...
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The Predecessors to Thai Life Insurance’s “Unsung Hero”
The latest in well-done branded content comes from an unlikely source: Thai Life Insurance. When was the last time y...
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Making the Apps: Grip Apps, Set Lighting Apps, and — Soon — One for Crew Scouts
There aren't many apps for grips and gaffers, but the ones that exist can be contributed to a developer by the name ...
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March 2014
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UNICEF “Taps” Into Global Inaction
Today marks the last day of the seventh annual UNICEF Tap Project, a campaign that offers this simple challenge: go ...
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[Dailies] Mad Men, Sam Mendes, Paris, and IMDb
Creative Bloq's Karl Hodge compares "Mad Men" lessons to the world of freelancing, such as moving with the times ...
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The Set Up and The Follow Through
We're drawn in, experiencing what caught our eye. Then, like a domino effect, sometimes content wants us to take ano...
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[Updated Feature] Real-time Traffic Report for Filmmaker Sites, Now Free for All
Today we're very excited to release a big update to a feature now for all FWD:labs users: real-time traffic reports ...
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February 2014
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To Win An Oscar, Enter These Festivals
I was recently asked, "which film festivals should we submit our film?" Picking where to send your film is hard w...
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[Dailies] #EsuranceSave30, SundanceTV, Criterion Collection
What ever happened to the #EsuranceSave30 stunt after the Super Bowl? There was a winner, but Esurance also relea...
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January 2014
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Good to Great: 8 Steps to Improving Your Storytelling
As a storytelling coach, I often hear the same question from students: How do I become a better storyteller? As i...
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Making the App: Cadrage Director’s Viewfinder for iOS and Android
Here at FWD:labs, one of our most popular resources is a directory of apps for filmmakers. Filter the list down to app...
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December 2013
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10 Best Posts of 2013
Across 34 articles on film, web, and design -- including many from contributing creative professionals -- here are m...
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[Tenacity] Inspiration from Casey Neistat, Seth Godin, and Iron Maiden
Filmmaker Casey Neistat -- known now for taking a brand's ad budget and making an untraditional video for social ch...
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Facebook To Begin Auto-Playing Muted Video
Scrolling through your Facebook feed, you'll soon see video automatically loading and playing. They'll also be silen...
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November 2013
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The State of Film Production in San Francisco for 2014
From the iconic, hill-pounding car chases in "Bullitt" to Robin William's salute to cross-dressing in "Mrs. Doubtfir...
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The Tech Behind Bob Dylan’s New “Like A Rolling Stone” Video
The latest effort in interactive online video comes via Bob Dylan and "Like A Rolling Stone," which was first releas...
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Anatomy of a Jean-Claude Van Damme Split
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10 "The Epic Split" is one of several stunt-based ads from Volvo Trucks,...
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October 2013
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What A Character! 3 More Tips on Creating Great Characters
As followers of The Story Source know, I’ve written extensively about Breaking Bad, the Emmy award-winning sh...
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[Dailies] Audience Involvement, Slowing Time, Women Need To…, Studio Demos, Popcorn Culture
"The New, Old Way to Tell Stories: With Input From the Audience" by Karen Swallow Prior (The Atlantic) discusses ...
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Why Aren’t There More Female Cinematographers?
A lot of people have asked my opinion on the lack of female cinematographers in the industry. It's something I've mu...
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September 2013
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Chipotle Film as Sweet-Spot Intersection of Art, Social Activism, and Capitalism
A few weeks ago, Mexican fast-food giant Chipotle released a semi-informational meets borderline PSA ad called "The ...
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Video Games Like GTA5 Continue Toward Convincing Realism, Now Rivaling Film Profits
More and more, video games mimic film as a collaborative storytelling business. This cinematic realism is effective ...
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Pitch Perfect: 5 Rules for Telling Stories with Your Pitch
Earlier this year, I attended a pitch event for young entrepreneurs seeking funding for their start-ups. The room wa...
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August 2013
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“Audiences Want Control” Keynotes Kevin Spacey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc Kevin Spacey recently delivered the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture...
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Story is the New Black: 3 Storytelling Rules to Follow
A few nights ago, as I was drifting off to sleep, I started watching the first season of the hit show Orange is the ...
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Putting “Turbo” into Motion
Any artist at a large entertainment studio will tell you that it is rare for an individual artist to get to take own...
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July 2013
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Derek Cianfrance’s Long-Shot Game
Derek Cianfrance, director of "The Place Beyond the Pines," "Blue Valentine," and a milieu of documentaries, recently he...
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The Identity Complex of 14 Emmy Nominations for Netflix
Do three programs, now with fourteen Emmy nominations, legitimize a network? Netflix must think so. "House of Cards,...
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June 2013
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[Dailies] Google’s Box Office, Hillman’s Final Films, Instagram’s Video, Screenwriter’s Punctuation, Websites’ Storyboards
Google published some data this month quantifying movie searches with box office success as a zeitgeist for onlin...
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Beyond the Crowd: Looking at Film Funding Alternatives to Crowd-Sourcing
OK, you want to finance your latest and greatest film project, you say? I'm sure you've thought of the basics... ask...
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How Shane Carruths Spearheads a Solution to Spielberg/Lucas Predicted “Implosion” of Film Business
Two weeks ago, while christening the new Interactive Media Building at USC School of Cinematic Arts, Steven Spielber...
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May 2013
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6 Second Filmmakers on Vine Now Include David Lynch
Vine, Twitter's take on six seconds of animated video in a square frame, has a brand new member. Who's already on...
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Before “Midnight,” “Sunset,” and “Sunrise,” Art Imitates Life
Salon.com has a heartfelt story of Richard Linklater's actual life before the 1995 film production of "Before Sunris...
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Why Did Flickr Drop Pro?
What's happening over at Flickr? They’re sporting a new look and giant storage limits, but many are questioni...
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April 2013
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[Dailies] Dumb Deaths, Soderbergh, Fitzgerald, Pre-roll Ads, FFF
"Dumb Ways to Die" by Melbourne MetroThis PSA about preventing train accidents -- a real problem in Victoria, Aus...
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Competing with the Big Guys for Small Dollars
Lately, it seems that everyone has something to say about the rise of celebrity funding on Kickstarter. And these op...
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TV’s Changing Landscape
My TV can play YouTube so YouTube is now TV. At the same time, Vimeo, Netflix, and Amazon are competing alongside ti...
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March 2013
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The Catch-22 of Crowd-Funding “Veronica Mars”
"Veronica Mars: The Movie," a star-studded revival venture on Kickstarter, decided to raise $2,000,000 within 30 ...
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[Tips] Vine Tweaser, iTunes Specs, Mad Man, TV Series Bible, Dave Grohl
Looking for new ways to share your trailer or showreel? Take a look at how James Mangold, director of "The Wolverin...
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[Dailies] Pixar’s Rules, Open Source’s LED, Samsung’s Head Tracking, 35mm’s Premature Burial
"Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling" by Emma Coates, Pixar’s Story Artist (via Aerogramme Studio)"#6. What i...
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February 2013
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Before and After The Tiger
And the Oscar goes to ... "Life of Pi" for excellence in visual effects painstakingly made under the guise of sustai...
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Three Facets of Innovation for Beck’s “Hello Again” Experiment
Beck's "Hello, Again" is an experiment from Lincoln Motor Company which utilized director Chris Milk and his team to...
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Dunking in the Dark
My copywriter colleague appeared on cue in my office doorway this morning, demanding to know my favorite Super Bowl ...
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January 2013
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The Short Before The Feature
Maybe one day we can have consistent theater-going experiences where a well-crafted short film leads us into the fea...
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Highlights of Sundance 2013
Just under 1% of the 12,146 films submitted were screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Here is a recap of the...
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[Dailies] Paul Schrader, Panasonic, Viral, Twttr, Orwell
"Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie" (The New York Times, January 10)"[Author Bret Ea...
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December 2012
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10 Best Posts of 2012
This year has a theme of collaborative leverage. Even with a leviathan of projects that start with a prospectus hand...
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Instagram used the wrong filter
In case you’ve been living off the grid the last couple days, Instagram (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Fac...
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[Tenacity] 1 Second Everyday: Video, TED Talk, App?
Cesar Kuriyama started out with an idea to archive his life. No 24/7 video feed, no Facebook posts, and no edited real...
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November 2012
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The State of 360-Degree Cameras for Online Interactivity
For immersive and engaging cinematic experiences, there is 3D and then there is interactive 3D video. Much like a vi...
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Saying “No” in Your 20s, 30s and 40s
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/53155584[/vimeo] Part of a breakfast lecture series for creative types called CreativeMor...
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The Communication Trap
You've heard it before. Maybe someone thinks your work doesn't "feel" right or considers it "way" off base, when the...
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October 2012
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Motivating the Unmotivated Voter: Multimedia Tackles Political Change
Apathy can thwart voter turnout just enough that it becomes necessary to have a history of film, web, and design con...
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WebGL: How the Future Looks
WebGL is transforming how we experience visual content online. Storytellers in the music video, commercial, and film...
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E-mail Marketing for Film and Video 101
Here at FWD:labs, we do a lot more than provide a platform for filmmakers and their work. We are regularly doing cus...
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September 2012
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“Looper” Lessons in Social Media Strategy
Critical acclaim and spoilers aside, "Looper" is ripe for influence to other creatives. When the team is committed b...
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Layout: Bringing It All Together
Generally when people think of animation studios, they tend to refer to everyone who works there as an "Animator." Howe...
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The Void at the Center of the Anti-Islam Video Crisis
The irony of the uproar connected to the now infamous anti-Islam video is this: almost everyone who has involved the...
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August 2012
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[Dailies] Videos for FF Chartwell, Google Analytics, Instacube
Instant Infographics [vimeo]https://vimeo.com/41772735[/vimeo] FF Chartwell is a new typeface from FontShop Intern...
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How The New Yorker Promotes Their iPhone, iPad Apps
In the world of direct-to-web "explainer" videos, where frequently mobile apps and digital properties are summed up ...
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Five Ring Failure
On one hand, a lot of people want to watch the Olympics, making it a dream for cable networks selling ad space and t...
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July 2012
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Everything New Is Old Again
Tipping points arrive on tip-toe. They don’t crash into our consciousness, they sneak up on us like jewel thi...
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Making “Girlfriend”
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/19334362[/vimeo] "Girlfriend"Writer/Director: Justin LernerProducers: Jerad Anderson, Kristin...
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Curveballs of showrunning “Breaking Bad”
What makes "Breaking Bad" a success? According to one tweet, series creator Vince Gilligan notes, "It's a lot blood,...
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June 2012
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The Benefits of Incentivizing Fundraising
Fundraising is an essential part of all projects -- and it’s tough. How do you make it easier? The answer ...
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[New and Notable] G.E.M., “For A Good Time Call,” Cosplay Outfitters, 20th Century Fox, The Durfee Foundation
G.E.M. "What Have You Done"Added by Brooke Dooley For a Good Time CallAdded by Brian Formo Cosplay OutfittersAdde...
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Multitrack Monologues in “Moonrise Kingdom”
Andrew Weisblum, ACE, editor of Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," was recently asked by Bryant Frazer at StudioDail...
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The Polemic Visuals of Jay-Z & Kayne’s “No Church In The Wild” Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJt7gNi3Nr4 The parallels to socio-political uprising -- Greece, Vancouver, Occup...
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[Dailies] “Video Game High School,” “French 5,” “Comedy Bang Bang”
The Danger Brain designed an extensive graphic identity for the Freddie Wong web series, "Video Game High School," ...
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Licensed music for video on a budget
I appreciate film composers. My go-to guy, composer and conductor Geoffrey Pope, gives me above-and-beyond work, qui...
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Crowdfunding “Way of Life”
5/12/2012 Update: David Driver reached and exceeded the goal one day before the deadline! There's less than a wee...
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Blackmagic’s Camera Debuts at NAB
The marketplace for digital camera bodies for filmmaking is gaining some momentum. ARRI's ALEXA is "thriving," RED's...
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Today’s Trajectory in Digital
Puma "Social" champions a million views, but the short film/ad "focuses on the benefits of living life by going o...
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[Tenacity] 5 Second Films Hour, Hitchcock Timelapse, Battle Lizard Crowdfunding
5 Second Films will be screening an hour of their shorts at Mohawk Bend tonight in Los Angeles, along with a prequel...
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The Sundance Experience of “The Surrogate”
[UPDATE: "The Surrogate" was re-billed "The Session," which is nominated for the Academy Awards.] Producer Doug B...
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[Dailies] Absolut’s Greyhound, Outrigger’s Bourdain, Sony’s Dragon
"Greyhound" music video for Absolut, the vodka company (care of TBWA\Chiat\Day), where they're "creating cocktail...
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My First Month
Back in 2003, I co-produced "The Plagiarist" for FWD:labs. This wasn't long after I had met Aaron at lunch in a UCL...
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Making Google’s “Best Best Man”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwmG43D0vD4 David Kruschke works at Studio G, Google’s in house video prod...
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Thoughts on Dynamic Pricing for Cinemas, Based on Theatre
Sports. Theatre. Concerts. They all seem to do dynamic pricing these days. If it's a losing team, slow night, or not...
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What K-Swiss Can Try Because They’re Small, But Does It Sell Shoes?
This is one way to try and sell shoes ... and an HBO sitcom. Jody Hill directs the latest K-Swiss "Kenny Powers"...
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Inspired and Uninspired “Drive”
Designer James White on the impetus of his official "Drive" print collateral: After seeing the film DRIVE I knew ...
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[Dailies] “Unconscious Mind,” “Mad Men,” “For Your Consideration,” “Lucky Elephant”
"How the Unconscious Mind Boosts Creative Output" (Miller McCune's Tom Jacobs) "A study ... finds allowing ideas ...
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Perspective on Protect IP and SOPA
Dear Friends and Creatives, I support Protect IP and SOPA. This might be an unpopular stand but the unbridled fea...
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How Kodak Can Become Profitable Again
Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy today. Some say, further cementing the claim that "film is dead." Besides that si...
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Making Funny or Die’s GOP Debate
How was it to edit the "GOP Presidential Online Internet Cyber Debate" for Funny Or Die / Yahoo News? What was uniqu...
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Moments of Silence in Modern Film
Columnist Jason Bailey at Flavorwire has put together a list of 10 notable sequences in sound films that choose mome...
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Raiders of the Lost Overture
Method, the design firm behind the Boxee and Autodesk re-brands, blogs a little differently. Called "10x10" to celeb...
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[Dailies] Will Ferrell, Ice Cube, #letsfly, Crowd Funding, Picture Palaces
Will Ferrell's Low-Budget Beer Ads (adweek.com) shows us what can be done when you embrace content over quality (via ...
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Scorsese’s Perspective on 3D
"Quite honestly, I would [shoot all my movies on 3D.] I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3D; t...
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Clichés in Poster Design
French distributor Christophe Courtois has compiled a photo blog of film posters sorted by red, blue, and black tren...
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Making “11-11-11”
As the film's director of photography, what are you most proud of with "11-11-11?" Joseph White Lighting-wise...
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Perspectives on Overtime in the Film Industry
It's unfortunately all too common to experience long hours in the film industry. What can be done to manage or distribut...
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Psyop Gets You Back to Twinings
An integrated campaign stemming broadcast and web, Twinings "Gets You Back To You" utilizes over $7 million to deliv...
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Making the Latest Music Videos for LMFAO
Music video director Mickey Finnegan has been wiggling and shuffling through the last 7 videos for LMFAO. His latest...
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[New Feature] PDF Embeds for Writers
Today we're excited to officially release a little new feature on FWD:labs that's just for screenwriters: PDF embeds...
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Smile, Nod, and “Drive”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKKrvgDA0KE Nicolas Winding Refn, director of "Drive," thanked Chilean avant-gard...
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[Dailies] Fingers, Soundtracks, Kisses, Rules, Pens
Skittles "Touch the Rainbow" work by BBDO in March used a low-fi technique as users "watch[ed] as their finger played...
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Creating “The BlackOut Mixer” Variety Show
What is the BlackOut Mixer and how is it unique? John Conway The BlackOut Mixer is a variety show put on by LA-ba...
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“The Insecure Way”
"[I]f you follow your bliss, you'll have your bliss whether you have money or not. If you follow money, you may lose...
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Evan Glodell’s One-of-a-kind “Bellflower”
Last night at a preview screening of "Bellflower" at the Museum of the Moving Picture, director Evan Glodell did a 3...
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Don’t Make Your Passion a Secret
Hollywood exec Tim Palen recently made Fast Company's Top 100 Most Creative People in Business. In addition to being...
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[Dailies] Video vs. Web, Process vs. Production, NetFlix vs. Customers
The latest JW Player demonstrates how video can sync with social media via JavaScript queries based on its timecode a...
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“Boardwalk Empire,” Before and After
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/18275127[/vimeo] NYC-based Brainstorm Digital breaks apart their VFX work on "Boardwalk E...
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[Tips] Doug Pray’s 7 Basic Rules for Making Docs
I first met director Doug Pray shooting an interview in 2009 for UCLA Theater, Film and Television, while his film "...
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Why Did Final Cut Drop Pro?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXepNCs_iZo "Everything just changed in post," the Apple site proclaims. Yet over...
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When Form Follows Function
From a recent Fast Company article, "Why David Fincher Is the Best Design Thinker in Hollywood," by John Pavlus: ...
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My First Billboard
I set a goal to have a billboard up in Los Angeles by the end of the year, and here in June I've got my first. It...
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Do actors need to succeed sooner than directors?
According to Slate.com's "Hollywood Career-O-Matic," a mash-up of select RottenTomatoes.com statistics from 1985 *, ...
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Defining the Cinemagraph
Nowadays, somewhere between photography and video is the art form coined the "cinemagraph," which comes to us as a l...
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Profile: Alex O’Flinn, Director
With his work recently screened at the Young Director's Night at LACMA, complete with glowing reviews, Alex O'Flinn ...
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How the Networks Can Make More Hit TV
According to The Wall Street Journal, between CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox, each season brings each major network approxima...
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Making “Osama bin Laden’s Final Video”
Filmmaker Michael Rousselet is one of a dozen behind 5 Second Films, an online destination that's been making a new film...
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The Trend of Short Fashion Films
Distributed through Nowness, a luxury lifestyle platform, there's one place to stop for long-form fashion films. Com...
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“Don’t Ever Get Off the Bus”
Variety's Peter Bart recently wrote "Busy helmers build solid careers," comparing directors like Todd Phillips who w...
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Podcasting for Writers
A major part of screenwriting is having an ear for dialogue. This is particularly true with comedy. In a drama, you ...
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Behind “The Look Down”
This was an assignment for the great collective “This Is A Photo Blogâ€, which I am proud to be the newes...
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[New Feature] Job Board
There's something wrong about the job boards for filmmakers online. Craigslist is fraught with ambiguity, about the ...
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[Dailies] Best Titles, “The Fighter,” Best Mobile Webby, Interactive 360
"If There Were an Oscar for Film Titles" (nytimes.com) includes Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere," with opening titles ...
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“Hobo with a Shotgun,” Meet “Care Center Slaughterhouse”
"Care Center Slaughterhouse" is a trailer directed by Benjamin Lee Martin for the "Hobo with a Shotgun" online grindhous...
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When Art Imitates Art
What happens when Kanye West "All of the Lights" (intertitles, dir. Hype Williams) and Gaspar Noe's "Enter the Void" (op...
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[Tips] DSLR workflows, Alexa vs. RED, iPhone editing, tough mattebox, shippable drive
How can your DSLR shoots flow a little more like film? Shane Hurlbut, ASC and B&H Photo teamed up to create HDSLR...
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My Last Day on Kung Fu Panda 2
For the past 6 months I've had the immense pleasure of working on Kung Fu Panda 2, the next installment of our story...
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[Tenacity] “Inside Out,” JR’s Global Art Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5MEC5MPjvg From artist Ronald Chase: JR is one of the most original artists o...
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“Content creators are the asset”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7-YsOzd4co Ariel Emanuel (William Morris Endeavor Entertainment), interviewed by...
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Designing Jeopardy’s Watson
Designs by artist Joshua Davis were implemented by Automata Studios to create Jeopardy's Watson supercomputer avatar...
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Big Game Gig: “Pug Attack” Actor Talks Super Bowl Spot
During the first commercial break this last Sunday's Super Bowl, actor Jeff Lorch caught a lot of attention with the...
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The Missing Bumpers of Sundance 2011
Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, whose 25-minute short "Successful Alcoholics" premiered at last year's festival, compl...
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Fundraising Low-Budget Film Online and Off
IndieGoGo.com is currently popular with filmmakers LumaDirector: Ashley GeorgeContribute towards $5k goal by 5/18...
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[New Feature] Client Preview
Delivering video content to a client always requires sending files and revisions. You export, you transcode, you upl...
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10 Best Posts of 2010
This year has a theme of control. Whether it's interacting with the film or audience, or taking the reins to screen ...
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Making The “Perfect” Film
My main thought is this: there is no such thing as the "perfect" film. And you certainly aren't going to make one. W...
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14 Actors’ Moving Portraits
"Fourteen Actors Acting" is a web feature for today's New York Times Magazine, including the talents of Javier Barde...
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[Tips] CMOS, framerates, AVCHD, ICG, car lights, power outage, external drives
Shooting a DSLR in an remote-controlled helicopter? Aside from the grippage and camera support, the smaller the C...
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Incredibly Good Looking Salesmen
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/17535548[/vimeo] After their acclaim with "Salesman Pete and The Amazing Stone," just in ...
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The Amazon Studios Experiment
The Amazon Studios experience continues. As of last night there 395 projects, and today before 5pm--less than 48 hou...
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[Dailies] Twitter showrunners, Sprint laugh, Fight Club viral
"Replying with the Enemy - Showrunners on Twitter - Part 2"Showrunner Dan Harmon of "Community" tweets, even with...
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The Convergence of Photo and Video
Coming out of a crowdsourcing snafu with a failed new logo, GAP emerges today with a sharp photo and video campaign....
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On Mobile Video’s “RADAR”
True to her Twitter bio, Janine Saunders is indeed a producer of awesome things in New York City. She works for RADA...
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“Let The Cows In”
Featured on today's episode of KCRW's talk program, The Business, host Matt Holzman spoke with British filmmaker Gar...
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The Shelf Lives of Video for Louis Vuitton and Nordstrom
Louis Vuitton and Nordstrom both try to catch eyes with their filmmaking. But in each respective campaign, they shoot fo...
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Whistleblowers for Peace
Falling Whistles is a movement that began with journalist Sean Carasso's blog post about boys being sent to the fron...
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The Sound of “Social Network”
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Crash Course in the State of Public Education
"Waiting for Superman" is an emotional crash course in the state of public education in the U.S. Using powerful nar...
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[Dailies] IKEA’s Cats and Arcade Fire’s Wilderness
What do you get when IKEA uses a hundred cats and five camera crews for a new ad running in the U.K.? "Happy Inside,...
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Getting Ridley Scott’s Attention with a Unicorn
[UPDATED 9/20/2010 -- "Porcelain Unicorn" won the contest and earned Ridley Scott's praise!] [UPDATED 9/6/2010 --...
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Card Tips for DSLR Filmmaking
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to spend some testing time with a collection of Canon 5Ds and 7Ds that belo...
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[Now Playing] “Old Fangs”
Great work from Adrien Merigeau, Old Fangs is an animated short about three forest-friends going on a coming-of-age ...
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[Dailies] Creative Videos for the Corporate Web
Branded content is reaching new industries, ones where the client wants video to reach an audience with ease and a b...
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Old Spice and Old School
Mustafa, my man! You and your pecs are all over all my pixel-producing products. You and your client, Old Spice, ...
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The Two Revelations in “The Five Obstructions”
In Lars von Trier’s excellent documentary The Five Obstructions (2003), von Trier challenges his mentor and v...
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Writing Interactive Film for the iPad
"Touching Stories" is a four-film experiment in short interactive filmmaking for the iPad, which got attention at th...
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How to Create Buzz Before Opening Week(end)
Today, the book "Ancestor" by Scott Sigler is available in stores from Crown Publishing. But that's not enough. This...
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The Morality of Watching for Free
When "Unthinkable," a new film by Gregor Jordan which stars Samuel L. Jackson and Carrie-Anne Moss, became available...
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The Times vs. Wikileaks and the Convergence of War and Gaming
The New York Times just printed a gushing (one might even say jingoistic) report on how the military is using new te...
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Kickstarter: A New Way to Fund and Follow Filmmakers
Through the course of history, artists have often survived thanks to wealthy patrons who sponsored them. Today, find...
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Creative Fundraising for Recession-Plagued Film
Director Reynier Molenaar is knee-deep in making his most involved film yet. STRAIN follows two survivors of the zom...
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LOST: DIY Titles
Namaste, LOST watchers. The final episode airs this Sunday, and soon we will have to bid Aloha to our favorite headache-...
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FWDlabs.com User Survey Results
We recently conducted a survey with users of FWDlabs.com and thought you might like to hear what we found out. Ma...
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“True Love” Nets New Directors Showcase
You just got picked for SHOOT's New Directors Showcase, specifically with the spec commercial, Levi's "True Love." W...
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Jody Hill’s “Swagger”
Toyota's latest commercial campaign ups the ante to sell the minivan as an object of desire, not just necessity, by ...
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Guns and Redheads
Today I came across M.I.A. "Born Free," directed by Romain Gavras and shot by André Chemetoff. I was reluctant to...
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Problems with Hulu’s New Monthly Subscription
Hulu just announced a monthly fee of $10 to view part of their video portal: Cost is a dollar higher than a ba...
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Parallel Filmmaking: 5 Visions, 1 Script
Philips TV partnered with Ridley Scott Associates (RSA Films) to make five films for their Parallel Lines project, w...
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Experiments with Social Viewing
You're in front of your computer, logged into a social network and savvy to instant messaging throughout your day. B...
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[Tenacity] “Children of Invention”
"Children of Invention," screening this week in Los Angeles and New York, is a product of a 10-month hustle from fir...
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[Dailies] Perspectives on Discussing Oscar Contenders
In its run-up to this year's Oscar for Best Picture, "The Hurt Locker" is getting quite the push-around from both si...
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Create It For Yourself
There’s a school of thought in business called the “Blue Ocean Strategy†which posits the followi...
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“Never underestimate the power of a great story”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4iY6ML82HE Part of their "Original Creativity" campaign, Canal+ has a history of...
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[Dailies] Unintended Consequences
I think we're consistently making content with one goal in mind. Sometimes, after they're put to bed, there's a long...
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Building Relationships with Online Audiences
After working at Imaginary Forces with Kurt Mattila on Spielberg's "Minority Report," Matt Checkowski started his ow...
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Thank you for everything, you useless reptile
After 9 months of very challenging and very rewarding work, my employment on "How To Train Your Dragon" has come to ...
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Behind the “I’m With COCO” Movement
It all began with a late-night tweet — "what do y'all think of this?" — and the "I'm With COCO" movement...
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[Dailies] Blockbusting, 3D Cameras, and Time Travel
Lucas Looks Back On Movie-MakingFrom a recent interview on NPR's Fresh Air: "'We loved movies, we loved making movie...
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Making the hit web series “INST MSGS”
One part Craigslist's "Best Of." One part quality production. INST MSGS is a new show from photographer Mathieu Youn...
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Necessity is the Mother of Invention
On KCRW's radio program The Treatment, film critic Elvis Mitchell interviewed fashion designer Tom Ford, now a first...
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10 Best Posts of 2009
Of the 48 posts this year, here is a selection of favorite subjects covered on this blog. Now Playing: "500 Day...
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Immersive Filmmaking
In the same vein as James Cameron's immersive experience with the 3D filmmaking of "Avatar" are recent works by comm...
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[Dailies] Fantastic Fox, David Lynch, NBC, Rian Johnson
MakingOf.com has a behind-the-scenes featurette about "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and the technology for handling 20tb of da...
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Making the 30 Seconds to Mars video for “Kings and Queens”
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Making the Planned Parenthood PSA featuring Kathleen Turner
"Stop Stupak!" spotClient: Planned Parenthood Federation of AmericaLength: 0:49Director/Writer: Jaemin YiMotion Graphic ...
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Should Actors Be Paid for Unauthorized YouTube Uploads?
Rebecca Tushnet’s 43(b)log alerted me to an interesting copyright/trademark issue. Apparently actors’...
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Print is Dying, and Esquire is Killing It
Last year, I was pretty put off by Esquire’s 75th anniversary, “e-ink†cover that they slapped on...
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Making “Boom Boom Pow” Pop
Artist/designer and technologist Josh Nimoy and VFX artist Matt Motal are rock stars. Working at Motion Theory, Nimo...
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4 Years Later: Making the Short Film, “Paradise Regained”
"Paradise Regained," a 15-minute thesis film written, produced and directed by Jaraad Virani, is about two strangers...
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Oscar-Winner Diablo Cody on Managing Expectations
With possible expectation upon her to one-up her success with "Juno," which won her a first-time nomination and an O...
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Leveraging Your Fan Club
Updated - 10/13 with Dan Carew's commentary We need to take a lesson from the playbook of New York Times best-se...
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“Rage” Over Piracy
Accomplished writer/director Sally Potter on giving away her new film, "Rage" (via Babelgum.com plus DVD sales and N...
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Starting Early with Adobe Story
Adobe has released Story, a free screenwriting tool using online collaboration and offline coordination that (of cou...
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Jay-Z’s Rhapsody
As rap artist Jay-Z passes a new milestone, originally held by Elvis Presley with 10 American number one albums on the B...
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Spike Jonze’s Authenticity
In a new interview from The New York Times Magazine, journalist Saki Knafo speaks with director Spike Jonze ("Where ...
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[New Resource] Apps for Cinema Artists
Everyone in this industry seems to have one. But which iPhone apps can help get a job done a little better or a litt...
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[Dailies] Stunning Animation in Music Videos of the Last 25 Years
We're seeing a lot of these lately. Coldplay just released an awe-inspiring one. Oren Lavie's is still blowing up. F...
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Not Just For Boys
In response to The Washington Times article, "Girls encouraged to enter technology field": I've been a female in ...
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[Now Playing] “(500) Days” Music Video
Commonplace in ad campaigns but less so in film and television campaigns, the bonus of consistency and authenticity ...
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“As Ridiculous As It Needs To Be”
Updated 8/13: Watch more of Blomkamp's earlier work in a YouTube playlist of 14 works, compiled by Kevin Broome. (vi...
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“Can Do” Attitude
Benjamin Franklin didn't invented the "can do" attitude, but he certainly possessed an ability to accomplish everyth...
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America, “Go Forth”
Optimism and patriotism are afoot in Wieden + Kennedy Portland's new campaign for Levi's. The agency's treatment rea...
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On-Set with “Night at the Museum” Director Shawn Levy
A Day in the Life of Director Shawn Levy: http://is.gd/19pW8 You might not dig his movies (Night at the Museum), but...
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Merlin Mann on Doing Creative Work
Merlin Mann, creator of 43folders.com, a site about "finding the time and attention to do your best creative work," ...
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Future of Film and Television is Not on the Web?
"Hollywood hits the stop button on high-profile Web video efforts," Los Angeles Times: "So many of the major medi...
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[Now Playing] “IKEA Heights”
"IKEA Heights" is billed as a "furniture store melodrama" shot guerrilla-style at IKEA in Burbank. They just used a ...
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[Dailies] “$9.99,” “Sorry I’m Late,” “Monsters”
"$9.99" is a festival-winning feature playing this Friday in Los Angeles and New York City, before going to Boston, ...
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No “Wolverine:” Feature Docs Premiering Intentionally Online
YouTube will be premiering an environmental, non-profit feature documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. "Home" is simul...
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Microsoft’s “Project Natal” Ad Works
In an industry of smoke and mirrors, not everyday is there a gaming ad that works as advertised. Just recently, L...
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[Dailies] “Girlfriend Experience,” New York Times, TED Talks
"Stimulus Package," an interview with technology evangelist (and famed filmmaker) Steven Soderbergh in Filmmaker Mag...
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[Now Playing] “Colin”
Currently abuzz at the 62nd Festival de Cannes is the feature zombie film, "Colin," directed by newcomer Marc Price ...
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Viral Video Evades the Censors in China
A viral video in China has been raising eyebrows and causing much discussion. The video is about a mythical creature...
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Offended and Inspired
"Limits of Control" star, Isaach De Bankol Jim Jarmusch's "Limits of Control" uses almost no script. As a writer, I'm...
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Breaking New Boundaries with Cinematic Ads
At least three cinematic ads in the last four weeks have taken new leaps online to grab your attention: Chanel No...
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Persist Less to Succeed More
Figure 5: (a) Average rating of videos with different submission index. A producer's first video has index 1, second vid...
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Wes Anderson’s Substance of Style
"The Substance of Style" Moving Image Source, a web project from the Museum of the Moving Image, posted the final ins...
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Exposing “What’s In The Box?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_reTt7Hj4 (View larger on official site.) What's In The Box?, a short "demo"...
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Searching for the First DSLR Feature
With just a trailer shot last weekend, the buzz blitz is on for the Searching for Sonny, a new action/comedy live-ac...
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Taking Guy Richie’s Nike Spot to Next Level
Let's say you've got a gig that involves a camera rigged to a helmet for some point-of-view dynamism. (I do.) Where ...
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Mumblecore
New Yorker illustration by Adrian Tomine LOVE this newyorker article putting low budget hipster films into genre of "...
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David Lynch’s 55-second Lumiere
When film reached it's 100th anniversary in the late 1990's, a Frenchman who had an original Lumiere Brothers camera...
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More Than Fair Use of Shepard Fairey’s Obama HOPE Poster
I just listened to Terry Gross' interview with both Shepard Fairey and the photographer (an AP stringer, Mannie Garc...
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The Art of Deliberate Practice
About three decades ago, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Professor William Chase and a postdoctoral fel...
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Film Tweets: “Coraline”
This Valentine's Day weekend especially, hundreds of tweets were posted about "Coraline." These text messages via Tw...
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Apple to Revolutionize Pre-production
You can never be too prepared, right? Whether it's pen illustration, 3D animatics, or stuck in the director's head, ...
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Working for the Small Screen
OK Go's "Here It Goes Again" video from 2006. Watch on YouTube.com or MTV.com. "Think Fellini on acid," notes NPR...
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Museo del Prado’s 14-billion pixel masterpieces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXos0ZQ3W-M Watch the "making of" on YouTube (embedded above) or the Prado Museum's w...
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Chris Milk’s heartache
Gnarls Barkley: Who's Gonna Save My Soul Director: Chris Milk Production Company: Radical Media In comments...
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[Dailies] Oscar contenders, Valkyrie’s screenwriter, Japan’s Watchmen
Oscar Roundtable The Hollywood Reporter brings together Oscar contender directors Clint Eastwood ("Gran Torino"),...
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10 Best Posts of 2008
Of the 53 posts this year, here is a selection of favorite subjects covered on this blog. "You don't want to be...
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Creativity with Your Music Video Treatment
Still from the music video for Linkin Park "Faint," directed by Mark Romanek, who posted his original treatment online. ...
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Eyeing the cover
The latest Eye magazine, an seasonal review of international graphic design, conjoins a vibrant still of motion grap...
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Tilt-shift time-lapse
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/2317118[/vimeo] Short film "Metal Heart" by Sydney-based photographer Keith Loutit. "T...
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[Dailies] Cover models, pushing forward, gaming YouTube
Cover models Artist Thomas Allen made models out of book covers Penguin Books blogs about covering James Bond ...
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Jason Polan’s Criterion
Jason Polan does Criterion Collection David Hudson's midnight post on GreenCine Daily, a DVD review blog from the onl...
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Ticket to the big time
In the article "How to Build a Director", Creativity Magazine rounds up 14 executive producers and directors from th...
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Future of music videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idirX-fZLD4 Is it an ad or the future of music videos? Leave it to the Antville.o...
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[Tenacity] “Slumdog Millionaire”
John Horn's article in today's Los Angeles Times on various challenges that faced director Danny Boyle, whose new fi...
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Will this change everything?
"Reverie," a short film by Explorer of Light/PrintMaster Vincent Laforet, shot on the Canon 5D Mark II's HD video mode. ...
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Mixing up “L’homme 100 tetes”
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/2107116[/vimeo] Directed by French artists, Julien Lassort (web design site, Vimeo pr...
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Take risks like Charlie Kaufman
Charlie Kaufman said he always thought "Being John Malkovich" would be a sample. What happened instead was that it g...
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For the love of “Mad Men”
"This Room is Occupied," Season 1, Episode 5 Dyna Moe takes on the personal challenge of creating an illustration for...
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Wayne Wang’s challenge to filmmakers
On Friday, YouTube premiered its first full-length studio feature, the Wayne Wang film from Magnolia Pictures, "The ...
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Mark Lewis’ Moving Pictures
Lewis' 2007 project, Isosceles, can be viewed online. The 3 minute piece was shot on Super 35mm and transferred to ...
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By the end of the day
"We didn't know exactly why, I guess we were hoping to expose a slice human emotion (maybe). Just the simple act of ...
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[Dailies] Content and Community of Gary Vaynerchuk
Thousands of people tune in to every episode of Wine Library TV, a fast-paced web show hosted by Gary Vaynerchuk. To...
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September 2008
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Participating after the credits roll
Photo by Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times Stuart Townsend, actor-turned-writer/director, took his disenchantment ...
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Writing through the block
The infamous blank page Part of a series of posts about adventures in screenwriting. These are some lessons that I...
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Mark Coleran’s Flow of Visual Design for Film
Mark Coleran designs computer screens for the big screen. According to his record on IMDb, some of his work goes unc...
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Will You Watch Strike.TV?
During the 100-day Writers' Strike that ended in February, the idea of an online distribution model for industry scr...
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August 2008
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Common Business Mistakes of Creative Services
AIGA, the professional association for design, provides free professional resources applicable to all kinds of creative ...
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Location Based Mobile Cinema
"Movies as derives," notes D. Scott Hessels, media artist and filmmaker based in Singapore, on his Facebook. His lat...
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How to make a story-rich music video
Crew members Larkin Seiple and A.J. Whittaker working with director Hank Friedmann, right Hank Friedmann is a directo...
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[Dailies] Poster extras, Radiohead downloads, Tarantino buffs
"Man on Wire" poster by All City Media London's All City Media "Man on Wire," a new documentary coming out August ...
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Can “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” Change the Way We Watch?
Dr. Horrible, the latest web series -- a sci-fi musical, too -- for the "low six figures," Whedon told the Los Angeles T...
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Finding your own film on YouTube
David Badgerow's film, Jungle Gym I've been intentionally avoiding posting Jungle Gym to YouTube because I was waitin...
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iPhone Apps for Filmmakers
Attention: Check out the more-inclusive Apps for Cinema Artists to see even more iPhone apps for filmmakers. Apple iP...
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Salon Gathering: Community outside your space
Mike Rohde's sketch of Gary Vaynerchuk's talk Recently at the SEED 3 conference in Chicago, Gary Vaynerchuk, host of ...
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Hillman Curtis’ Latest Short Film for the Web
Bridge by Hillman Curtis Hillman Curtis, resourceful trailblazer and playful maestro of online film and online design...
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Double Message of “The Girl Effect”
Matt Smithson is the director behind the new viral video calling for social change, "The Girl Effect." The spot was ...
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How IMDb could boost its street cred
IMDb has a new gimmick for independent filmmakers. The legitimizer of film and television project and professionals ...
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May 2008
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Salon Gathering: First of many to come
"Muse me: inspiration drawn from foreigning the familiar. ... It's a beautiful thing when two people can share a con...
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How small, steady improvement wins the race
The McKinsey Quarterly interview on innovation at Pixar with director Brad Bird Kaizen, Japanese for the philosophy ...
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ABC Online Ads Multiply
ABC.com's online full episode player Circulated today in the world of digital ad sales, an internal memo notified riv...
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Spike Lee, Filmmakers on Mobile Filmmaking
Spike Lee's page on the Nokia Productions web site Oscar-nominated director Spike Lee, teaming with Nokia, is calling...
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Criterion’s Correction
The Criterion Collection recently announced the re-distribution of Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-sweeping 1987 film,...
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Finding a Familiar Face
I'll just do that in grad school. Print by Sam Fuchs available at HellaMoreFunner.com During a recent college basketb...
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My First Red Camera Experience
Updated 12/23: Looking to go Red on your next project? We're in business. Updated 8/13: You can watch the finished music...
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“You don’t want to be making mediocre stuff”
Photo by Nancy Updike "Failure is a big part of success. If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a si...
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Pittsburgh’s Film Kitchen
Poster for Film Kitchen by Brett Yasko Last Tuesday, March 11, and for many second-Tuesdays of the month, Pennsylvani...
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How Filmmakers Use Basecamp
Welcome everyone from the tweet on the 37signals Twitter! Check out the latest posts, post archive, or learn more about ...
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February 2008
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Collective Action of Pangea Day
Since I first heard about it, I've been a fan: TED -- Technology, Entertainment, and Design -- is a conference about...
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How to Use Facebook Film
Today, social networking leviathan Facebook introduced "Film on Facebook," along with "Music on Facebook." Both are ...
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“Please don’t interrupt our movies”
"Please don't interrupt our movies" punctuates the new public service announcement featuring Martin Scorsese, now ru...
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Ups and Downs of Social Video
Love at first sight? Hulu, the industry's response to the user's demand for video, looks good even if you don't show...
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Oscar Nominees as Posters
These are the picks for best films of 2008: fiction juxtaposed with non-fiction, side-by-side alphabetically. Nominee...
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[New Feature] Your Collaborators
One of the missions of FWD:labs is to easily expand your network or reconnect with past collaborators. At FWDlabs.com,...
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[New Resource] Artist Gathering Venues
Maybe you're looking to finish your screenplay, check your YouTube comments, or just get drinks after a hard day's w...
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User-Generated Spots for Super Tuesday, not Super Bowl
Political ads, made independently by supporters and detractors alike, are abundant in the run-up to inform and engage be...
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Frozen Grand Central abuzz
207 "agents" of Improve Everywhere recently stopped in their tracks at Grand Central Station, pulling off an afternoon s...
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My First Sundance Experience
Early birds: parking galore in Park City before 9am Wi-Fi is hit-or-miss outside lounges and libraries, which are...
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Ode to Regional Cinema
Pack the trunk, check the oil, and hit the gas. You've got a screening to make upstate, and you're bringing the film, th...
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P.T. Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” Viral Video
The Academy Award nominee for Magnolia and Boogie Nights, and Best Director winner at Cannes for Punch-Drunk Love, took ...
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Modern-Day Newsreel of Forward-Thinking Ideas
This week is the annual "Year in Ideas" issue from The New York Times Magazine (12/9/2007). As a companion to the 70 "cu...
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“What movies are meant to be like”
Overheard tonight after a packed screening of Juno, the little film that's generating a lot of Oscar buzz for being a di...
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Julian Schnabel’s Memory and Imagination
Tonight, the local picture palace was packed for a preview screening of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, care of Matt'...
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[New Feature] Traffic Report
As any kind of artist, you want the general public to experience your best work and, by attribution, have the best i...
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Forward: Getting Real about FWDlabs.com
Part of a series of posts about the updates and upgrades of the quick iterations and new features at FWDlabs.com. FWD...
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[Now Playing] “No Country for Old Men”
I didn't need to see the trailer, visit the web site, or notice the poster before I ordered a ticket last month during t...
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Vimeo, underdog video network, leads the pack
For taking on 1280x720 HD ahead of other social video networks and for reminding people about good video quality (as...
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September 2007
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The 5 Year Plan
Every freelance cinema artist is looking 5 years ahead. By 30, you're here. 35, you're there. 40, here, 45, there. No...
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[Now Playing] “We Need Girlfriends”
"We Need Girlfriends" is one of the best shows online today. Good writing, regular programming, professional sensibiliti...
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Cinema Artists’ Manifesto
It was a real role reversal when Aaron first started talking to me about FWD:labs. To that point, our relationship h...
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Take The 2 Hours
It's only playing at four movie theaters right now, so you might need to take your bus, subway or bicycle a little furth...
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Online Marketplace: Watching on Demand
You'd rather watch ads than pay to download-to-own or rent a film or show. Google Video's marketplace for downloads met ...
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The Social Video Networks You Need to Know
As a creative, you care about control and trust. In the frenzy of build-ups and buy-outs in social video networking, the...
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Watching Alfresco
Today, the Los Angeles Times ran a front-page story on the Guerilla Drive-In, a film movement in Santa Cruz, Califor...
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[Tenacity] “The Lazarus Effect”
Mathieu Young, a young filmmaker whom I first met by hearing his pitch for an action movie in the Palm Springs desert, w...
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Filtr’d Cinema
Update (06/2012): Filtr is now offline. Update (07/07): Since this was first posted, Filtr is now a registration-requ...
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Profile: Eric Szyszka, Screenwriter
As a headstrong cinema studies grad of Suny Purchase, Eric Szyszka calls it like he sees it and knows what he wants; but...
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Four Degrees of Social Advocacy
Think about the under-popularized satellite photos of genocide: that is where film is headed. Feel the sense of comm...
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Business Cards for Artists Who Love Quality
Format Cool business card designs (creativebits.org) "Combine different papers. Use office scrap. Write fun copy....
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No TV, No Problem – How Quality Content Can Succeed Online
Wired Magazine ran a blog post on May 21, 2007 about failed TV shows going big, thanks to their online potential. It...
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Profile: Max Sokoloff, Director
Max Sokoloff is a 14-year old director in San Francisco. His film, "Voyage of the Mind," was recently awarded an hon...
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Gratefulness
On April 8th, 2007, the Washington Post conducted an experiment during a Washington D.C. rush hour. A man with a vio...
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Thanks Technology, I’m Looking Better Already
A handful of professional editors recently contributing to the 2006 ACE survey. Final Cut Pro came in third, behind ...
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5 Problems with All Flash Web Sites
1. Linear lock-down Problem: Start at the beginning. No user-empowerment. No "chapter skip," even if there isn't a sp...
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Anatomy of a Saul Bass Title Design
With Otto Preminger's 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder, film critic Leo Goldsmith -- a contributor to Reverse Shot and The ...
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Adobe’s Creative Suite for “Web, Design and Video”
Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3), announced Tuesday, is an upgraded line of software relevant -- now, very relevant -- t...
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Killing Your Conceptual Babies
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5 Steps to Getting Your Film on Social Video Networks
Updated 3/2009: LiberatedFilms.com bit the dust. In our first public resource, we introduce 5 steps to consid...
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[Now Playing] Peer-assisted, streaming mesh networks for video
At the OMMA conference today in Hollywood, the editor of Mediapost, Joe Mandese, told me the next big thing is "peer...
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How They Said It
Interview with "How Do I Say This?" site creator, Aaron Koblin, on collaboration, challenges and getting people intellig...
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Problem at Large: Organizing Video
Over at the SXSW festival, just like at Sundance panel discussion, organizers brought some key players together to discu...
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Tarantino’s Loaded Gun
From Tarentino's article, "I call the shots here," on Times Online: I've given nobody the authority over me to sa...
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Apple Brings Shorts to iTunes
To coincide with the Academy Awards, a new set of short films became available on iTunes. For $1.99, Oscar®-nominated...
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Films Online are More Than Marketing, Money
At the Sundance Film Festival this last weekend, a forum of online film execs like Suzie Reider (CMO, YouTube) and Steve...
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[Tenacity] “Ever Since the World Ended”
Sir Winston Churchill once wrote that "a pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opport...
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Growing Pains, but Growing Greater
In the last two months, FWD:labs has experienced some long-awaited growing pains. Recently, the focus has turned to gath...
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An Anti-Burnout Case
In the December 4, 2006 issue of New York Magazine, the cover story follows burnout, an appropriate term almost ever...
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Blog Launches
27 days in the right direction. November 1st marked the first step ahead for FWDlabs.com. What began as a limited col...
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