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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...
  • Published on the 7th

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?...
  • Published on the 24th

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...
  • Published on the 14th

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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...
  • Published on the 30th

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...
  • Published on the 29th

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 ...
  • Published on the 20th

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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...
  • Published on the 7th

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...
  • Published on the 7th

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...
  • Published on the 8th

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...
  • Published on the 23rd

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...
  • Published on the 23rd

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...
  • Published on the 12th

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 ...
  • Published on the 31st

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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 ...
  • Published on the 30th

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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...
  • Published on the 28th

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...
  • Published on the 30th

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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...
  • Published on the 29th

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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...
  • Published on the 12th

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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...
  • Published on the 28th

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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...
  • Published on the 30th

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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 ...
  • Published on the 30th

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...
  • Published on the 22nd

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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...
  • Published on the 30th

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...
  • Published on the 30th

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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...
  • Published on the 28th

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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 / ...
  • Published on the 31st

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...
  • Published on the 30th

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...
  • Published on the 30th

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...
  • Published on the 30th

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...
  • Published on the 27th
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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...
  • Published on the 11th

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...
  • Published on the 31st

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...
  • Published on the 30th

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...
  • Published on the 20th

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...
  • Published on the 27th

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�...
  • Published on the 5th

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 ...
  • Published on the 31st

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 ...
  • Published on the 31st
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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...
  • Published on the 29th

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...
  • Published on the 27th

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...
  • Published on the 23rd
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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...
  • Published on the 17th

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...
  • Published on the 28th

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 ...
  • Published on the 30th
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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...
  • Published on the 18th

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...
  • Published on the 30th
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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...
  • Published on the 28th
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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...
  • Published on the 17th

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...
  • Published on the 28th
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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...
  • Published on the 23rd
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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 ...
  • Published on the 11th

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 ...
  • Published on the 31st
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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 ...
  • Published on the 21st
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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...
  • Published on the 14th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 1st

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...
  • Published on the 24th
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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...
  • Published on the 21st

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...
  • Published on the 30th
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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...
  • Published on the 27th

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...
  • Published on the 31st
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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...
  • Published on the 27th
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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...
  • Published on the 17th

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...
  • Published on the 26th
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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...
  • Published on the 20th
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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,...
  • Published on the 15th

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...
  • Published on the 30th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 29th
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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...
  • Published on the 16th

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 ...
  • Published on the 30th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 25th
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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...
  • Published on the 13th

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...
  • Published on the 29th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 10th
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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...
  • Published on the 2nd

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...
  • Published on the 22nd
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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,...
  • Published on the 18th

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...
  • Published on the 30th
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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...
  • Published on the 28th
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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...
  • Published on the 25th

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...
  • Published on the 31st
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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...
  • Published on the 30th
• 1 Comment
  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...
  • Published on the 23rd

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...
  • Published on the 30th
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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...
  • Published on the 29th
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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...
  • Published on the 24th

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 ...
  • Published on the 29th
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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...
  • Published on the 28th
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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...
  • Published on the 19th

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...
  • Published on the 26th
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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...
  • Published on the 24th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 4th

January 2013

• 1 Comment
  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...
  • Published on the 31st
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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...
  • Published on the 29th
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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...
  • Published on the 12th

December 2012

• 1 Comment
  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...
  • Published on the 28th
• 1 Comment
  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...
  • Published on the 19th
• 1 Comment
  [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...
  • Published on the 18th

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...
  • Published on the 30th
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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...
  • Published on the 22nd
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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...
  • Published on the 17th

October 2012

• 4 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 31st
• 2 Comments
  WebGL: How the Future Looks
  WebGL is transforming how we experience visual content online. Storytellers in the music video, commercial, and film...
  • Published on the 30th
• 1 Comment
  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...
  • Published on the 26th

September 2012

• 1 Comment
  “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...
  • Published on the 28th
• 1 Comment
  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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May 2012

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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...
  • Published on the 7th

April 2012

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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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March 2012

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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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February 2012

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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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January 2012

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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...
  • Published on the 12th

December 2011

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  10 Best Posts of 2011
  Of the 43 posts this year, ranging from inspired accomplishments to working through obstacles, here is a selection of fa...
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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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November 2011

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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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October 2011

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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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September 2011

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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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August 2011

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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...
  • Published on the 3rd

July 2011

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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 "...
  • Published on the 5th

June 2011

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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: ...
  • Published on the 29th
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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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May 2011

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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...
  • Published on the 5th

April 2011

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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...
  • Published on the 27th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 26th
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  Behind “The Look Down”
  This was an assignment for the great collective “This Is A Photo Blog”, which I am proud to be the newes...
  • Published on the 25th
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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...
  • Published on the 4th

March 2011

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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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February 2011

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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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January 2011

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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...
  • Published on the 23rd
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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...
  • Published on the 11th

December 2010

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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 ...
  • Published on the 8th

November 2010

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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...
  • Published on the 14th
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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....
  • Published on the 11th
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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...
  • Published on the 9th

October 2010

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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...
  • Published on the 6th

September 2010

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  The Sound of “Social Network”
  Music has played an important role in the cinema since piano accompaniment during the silent era. From the first rec...
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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 --...
  • Published on the 3rd

August 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 ...
  • Published on the 18th
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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...
  • Published on the 10th

July 2010

• 2 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 16th
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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...
  • Published on the 5th

June 2010

• 1 Comment
  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...
  • Published on the 17th
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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...
  • Published on the 7th
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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...
  • Published on the 6th

May 2010

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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...
  • Published on the 18th
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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...
  • Published on the 12th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 5th

April 2010

• 2 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 30th
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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...
  • Published on the 12th
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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...
  • Published on the 3rd

March 2010

• 2 Comments
  [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...
  • Published on the 6th

February 2010

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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...
  • Published on the 26th
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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...
  • Published on the 9th
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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...
  • Published on the 2nd
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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 ...
  • Published on the 1st

January 2010

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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...
  • Published on the 13th
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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...
  • Published on the 8th
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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...
  • Published on the 7th

December 2009

• 2 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 30th
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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...
  • Published on the 21st
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  Making the 30 Seconds to Mars video for “Kings and Queens”
  [Updated 12/6/2012: This interview is no longer available. Please contact the editor if you have any questions.]
  • Published on the 7th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 4th

November 2009

• 1 Comment
  Should Actors Be Paid for Unauthorized YouTube Uploads?
  Rebecca Tushnet’s 43(b)log alerted me to an interesting copyright/trademark issue. Apparently actors’...
  • Published on the 24th
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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...
  • Published on the 20th
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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...
  • Published on the 3rd

October 2009

• 3 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 26th
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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...
  • Published on the 22nd
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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...
  • Published on the 6th
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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...
  • Published on the 2nd

September 2009

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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...
  • Published on the 22nd
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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...
  • Published on the 17th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 2nd

August 2009

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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...
  • Published on the 27th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 11th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 6th
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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...
  • Published on the 2nd

July 2009

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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...
  • Published on the 31st
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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...
  • Published on the 1st

June 2009

• 1 Comment
  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...
  • Published on the 29th
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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," ...
  • Published on the 23rd
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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...
  • Published on the 18th
• 1 Comment
  [Now Playing] “IKEA Heights”
  "IKEA Heights" is billed as a "furniture store melodrama" shot guerrilla-style at IKEA in Burbank. They just used a ...
  • Published on the 17th
• 1 Comment
  [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, ...
  • Published on the 16th
• 2 Comments
  No “Wolverine:” Feature Docs Premiering Intentionally Online
  YouTube will be premiering an environmental, non-profit feature documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. "Home" is simul...
  • Published on the 4th
• 3 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 3rd

May 2009

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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...
  • Published on the 27th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 23rd
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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...
  • Published on the 21st
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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...
  • Published on the 8th
• 3 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 5th

April 2009

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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...
  • Published on the 19th
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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...
  • Published on the 15th
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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"...
  • Published on the 10th

March 2009

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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...
  • Published on the 30th
• 5 Comments
  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 ...
  • Published on the 18th
• 1 Comment
  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...
  • Published on the 14th
• 6 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 9th
• 3 Comments
  The Art of Deliberate Practice
  About three decades ago, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Professor William Chase and a postdoctoral fel...
  • Published on the 7th

February 2009

• 1 Comment
  Film Tweets: “Coraline”
  This Valentine's Day weekend especially, hundreds of tweets were posted about "Coraline." These text messages via Tw...
  • Published on the 15th
• 1 Comment
  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, ...
  • Published on the 1st

January 2009

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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...
  • Published on the 27th
• 2 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 13th
• 3 Comments
  Chris Milk’s heartache
  Gnarls Barkley: Who's Gonna Save My Soul Director: Chris Milk Production Company: Radical Media In comments...
  • Published on the 10th
• 3 Comments
  [Dailies] Oscar contenders, Valkyrie’s screenwriter, Japan’s Watchmen
  Oscar Roundtable The Hollywood Reporter brings together Oscar contender directors Clint Eastwood ("Gran Torino"),...
  • Published on the 6th

December 2008

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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. ...
  • Published on the 21st
• 1 Comment
  Eyeing the cover
  The latest Eye magazine, an seasonal review of international graphic design, conjoins a vibrant still of motion grap...
  • Published on the 20th
• 1 Comment
  Tilt-shift time-lapse
  [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/2317118[/vimeo] Short film "Metal Heart" by Sydney-based photographer Keith Loutit. "T...
  • Published on the 10th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 7th

November 2008

• 4 Comments
  Jason Polan’s Criterion
  Jason Polan does Criterion Collection David Hudson's midnight post on GreenCine Daily, a DVD review blog from the onl...
  • Published on the 25th
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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...
  • Published on the 19th
• 2 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 11th
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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...
  • Published on the 9th
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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. ...
  • Published on the 6th

October 2008

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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...
  • Published on the 31st
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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...
  • Published on the 30th
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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...
  • Published on the 24th
• 1 Comment
  Wayne Wang’s challenge to filmmakers
  On Friday, YouTube premiered its first full-length studio feature, the Wayne Wang film from Magnolia Pictures, "The ...
  • Published on the 20th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 14th
• 1 Comment
  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 ...
  • Published on the 10th
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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...
  • Published on the 4th

September 2008

• 1 Comment
  Participating after the credits roll
  Photo by Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times Stuart Townsend, actor-turned-writer/director, took his disenchantment ...
  • Published on the 29th
• 1 Comment
  Writing through the block
  The infamous blank page Part of a series of posts about adventures in screenwriting. These are some lessons that I...
  • Published on the 20th
• 2 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 13th
• 5 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 7th

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 ...
  • Published on the 31st
• 10 Comments
  Location Based Mobile Cinema
  "Movies as derives," notes D. Scott Hessels, media artist and filmmaker based in Singapore, on his Facebook. His lat...
  • Published on the 19th
• 3 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 8th

July 2008

• 1 Comment
  [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 ...
  • Published on the 26th
• 1 Comment
  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...
  • Published on the 21st
• 2 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 18th
• 9 Comments
  364 shares on Facebook
  iPhone Apps for Filmmakers
  Attention: Check out the more-inclusive Apps for Cinema Artists to see even more iPhone apps for filmmakers. Apple iP...
  • Published on the 14th

June 2008

• 3 Comments
  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 ...
  • Published on the 29th
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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...
  • Published on the 22nd
• 4 Comments
  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 ...
  • Published on the 8th
• 1 Comment
  How IMDb could boost its street cred
  IMDb has a new gimmick for independent filmmakers. The legitimizer of film and television project and professionals ...
  • Published on the 5th

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...
  • Published on the 23rd
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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 ...
  • Published on the 11th
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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...
  • Published on the 6th
• 7 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 3rd

April 2008

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  Criterion’s Correction
  The Criterion Collection recently announced the re-distribution of Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-sweeping 1987 film,...
  • Published on the 29th
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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...
  • Published on the 13th
• 13 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 6th

March 2008

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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...
  • Published on the 27th
• 2 Comments
  Pittsburgh’s Film Kitchen
  Poster for Film Kitchen by Brett Yasko Last Tuesday, March 11, and for many second-Tuesdays of the month, Pennsylvani...
  • Published on the 15th
• 5 Comments
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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 ...
  • Published on the 9th

February 2008

• 1 Comment
  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...
  • Published on the 28th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 27th
• 1 Comment
  “Please don’t interrupt our movies”
  "Please don't interrupt our movies" punctuates the new public service announcement featuring Martin Scorsese, now ru...
  • Published on the 26th
• 2 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 25th
• 1 Comment
  Oscar Nominees as Posters
  These are the picks for best films of 2008: fiction juxtaposed with non-fiction, side-by-side alphabetically. Nominee...
  • Published on the 19th
• 1 Comment
  [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,...
  • Published on the 17th
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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...
  • Published on the 16th
• 5 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 2nd
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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...
  • Published on the 1st

January 2008

• 2 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 20th
• 1 Comment
  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...
  • Published on the 10th
• 2 Comments
  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 ...
  • Published on the 6th

December 2007

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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...
  • Published on the 11th
• 4 Comments
  “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...
  • Published on the 7th

November 2007

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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'...
  • Published on the 27th
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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...
  • Published on the 25th
• 1 Comment
  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...
  • Published on the 17th
• 3 Comments
  [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...
  • Published on the 6th

October 2007

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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...
  • Published on the 15th

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...
  • Published on the 29th
• 1 Comment
  [Now Playing] “We Need Girlfriends”
  "We Need Girlfriends" is one of the best shows online today. Good writing, regular programming, professional sensibiliti...
  • Published on the 16th

August 2007

• 4 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 29th
• 7 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 18th
• 3 Comments
  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 ...
  • Published on the 12th

July 2007

• 2 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 21st
• 3 Comments
  Watching Alfresco
  Today, the Los Angeles Times ran a front-page story on the Guerilla Drive-In, a film movement in Santa Cruz, Califor...
  • Published on the 14th
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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...
  • Published on the 12th

June 2007

• 1 Comment
  Filtr’d Cinema
  Update (06/2012): Filtr is now offline. Update (07/07): Since this was first posted, Filtr is now a registration-requ...
  • Published on the 25th
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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...
  • Published on the 18th
• 1 Comment
  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...
  • Published on the 7th

May 2007

• 3 Comments
  Business Cards for Artists Who Love Quality
  Format Cool business card designs (creativebits.org) "Combine different papers. Use office scrap. Write fun copy....
  • Published on the 30th
• 4 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 23rd
• 2 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 19th

April 2007

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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...
  • Published on the 24th
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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 ...
  • Published on the 20th
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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...
  • Published on the 12th
• 2 Comments
  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 ...
  • Published on the 8th

March 2007

• 1 Comment
  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...
  • Published on the 28th
• 2 Comments
  Killing Your Conceptual Babies
  
  • Published on the 24th
• 3 Comments
  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...
  • Published on the 21st
• 1 Comment
  [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...
  • Published on the 19th
• 1 Comment
  How They Said It
  Interview with "How Do I Say This?" site creator, Aaron Koblin, on collaboration, challenges and getting people intellig...
  • Published on the 15th
• 1 Comment
  Problem at Large: Organizing Video
  Over at the SXSW festival, just like at Sundance panel discussion, organizers brought some key players together to discu...
  • Published on the 12th
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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...
  • Published on the 9th

February 2007

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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...
  • Published on the 28th

January 2007

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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...
  • Published on the 29th
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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...
  • Published on the 4th

December 2006

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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...
  • Published on the 24th
• 1 Comment
  An Anti-Burnout Case
  In the December 4, 2006 issue of New York Magazine, the cover story follows burnout, an appropriate term almost ever...
  • Published on the 2nd

November 2006

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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...
  • Published on the 27th

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