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6 Things To Keep In Mind When Selecting a Music Cue For Your Video (Sponsored Post)
Sponsored by PremiumBeat.com Choosing the right music cues for a video project should take place earlier rather than later in your editing process. Working with temp tracks can lead you to get attached to music you can’t afford, and hiring a composer can be untenably expensive, especially for smaller projects. PremiumBeat, a royalty free music library, offers a variety of affordably licensable cues that can be used in your project. Here are seven things to keep in mind when choosing from those cues: 1. Commit to music as early as possible It’s good to make sure that any client you’re working […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 31, 2015 -
Watch: Mel Brooks on Working with Orson Welles
In this short interview snippet, Mel Brooks holds forth about his experience working with Orson Welles on History of the World, Part I. What did Welles intend to spend his fee on? 100 Cuban cigars and Sevruga caviur – not Beluga, since Sevruga was good enough and half the price.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 24, 2015 -
Watch: Edward Norton Introduces Fight Club
In this brief introduction to a screening of Fight Club at Locarno, Edward Norton recalls that the film premiered to boos at the Venice Film Festival in 1999, a far cry from its assured cult status at this point. He then goes on to compare the film’s initially poor reception to what it must’ve been like to watch Rossellini’s Rome, Open City one year after the end of World War II, as something too raw and recent to process. The comparison’s probably ill-advised, but there you go.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 18, 2015 -
Watch: How to Read a Call Sheet
This succinct, no nonsense tutorial video from RocketJump Film School breaks down the various components of a call sheet, showing how to read each section and understand various acronyms. Best tip for those making a call sheet: make sure to include the address of the hospital nearest to your set, and make sure it has an ER. You never know.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 11, 2015 -
Watch: A New P.T. Anderson Music Video for Joanna Newsom
Paul Thomas Anderson’s music video for Joanna Newsom’s new single is very much in the loose handheld mode of Inherent Vice. Newsom wanders Manhattan while reeling off some typically complicated lyrics and the camera follows in her wake. Her new album, Divers, is out on October 23.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 10, 2015 -
Todd Haynes to Receive Director Tribute at IFP’s 25th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards
Via a press release from IFP: The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), Filmmaker‘s parent organization, announced today that Todd Haynes will be presented with this year’s Director Tribute at the 25th Annual IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards. Signaling the official kick-off for the film awards season, the Gotham Awards is one of the leading honors for independent film and provides critical early recognition to worthy independent films and their writers, directors, producers, and actors. Anchoring the evening’s competitive awards are tributes to film community icons, including the Director Tribute, as well as an Industry tribute and an Actor/Actress to be announced. […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 6, 2015 -
Watch: “The Chase,” A Supercut of Great Chase Scenes From Bullitt to Fury Road
Taking its earliest footage from 1968’s Bullitt, generally considered the origin point for the modern car chase, and its most recent footage from this summer’s Mad Max: Fury Road, Michael Mirasol’s very fine supercut breaks down chase sequences into their common constituent parts. Starting with many POV shots of the road racing before a speeding car, “The Chase” builds to a steady compare-and-contrast stream of head-on collisions, heavily-braked 360s and impossible vehicular leaps.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 5, 2015 -
Watch: An Impressive Tribute to Hayao Miyazaki
Animator “dono” is responsible for this impressive super-montage of Hayao Miyazaki’s work. Recreating Miyazaki’s settings with the animation software Blender, dono then places the 2D characters into this 3D amplification of their original worlds. It’s technically adroit and, if you’re a fan, quite lovely.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 4, 2015 -
Our 25 New Faces of Film List for 2015 is Live
This is one of our flagship features, and we’re very proud of it. Check out the list here.
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 23, 2015 -
Load and Play: Killers, Wage Slaves and Varda in the Sun
Agnès Varda in California Several directors of or related to the French New Wave flirted with Hollywood, from those who actually completed studio pictures (François Truffaut, Jacques Demy) to those whose efforts crashed and burned (most famously Jean-Luc Godard, whose proposed gangster picture with Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton remains one of the most tantalizing unmade films of all time). None of them managed to turn their detours in Los Angeles into as singular a cycle of films as Agnès Varda, whose two periods in the city (in the late ’60s and early ’80s) yielded five highly personal works […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 23, 2015
