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How is your project represented when you move from online to the real world?
Free or near free online digital tools allow us to create amazing web presences now. Our companies, our projects and even ourselves are well served by these online tools that can help convey what we...
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The BBC College Of Production podcast on ‘budget film making’
A few weeks back I went to the BBC to record a lively debate on the state of British indie filmmaking, with Dominic Brunt and Marc Price. You can listen to the podcast above. Dominic Brunt is a TV...
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How I Cast Brian Blessed, Joanna Lumley and Jack Davenport in my fantasy...
Why You Should Consider Virtual Filmmaking For Your Next Project Guest blog post by Hugh Hancock, filmmaker and author of Machinima for Dummies Everyone knows that it’s impossible for micro-budget...
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Six Lessons I Learned Making My First Feature
Guest post by Ewan Thomas, Writer / Director I started working in the film industry 10 years ago, in post-production. But I’d always wanted to shoot my own film, so I moved to London wanting to “make...
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How to best use library music for your film – top 8 pitfalls to avoid
Library music is a great resource for filmmakers. I am a huge fan of Audio Network with their simple and hugely cost effective pricing. I used them first (and extensively) on my Oscar shortlisted film...
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14 Things I Learned Making An Epic Fantasy Feature Film On A Low-Budget
Recently I was invited to introduce ‘Arthur and Merlin’ at the BFI, a new British fantasy epic shot on a remarkable budget. I asked director Marco Van Belle to share some of his experiences so if we...
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We made an Xmas movie and you can watch it now…
Over the last few weeks we have been making a Christmas film, commissioned and funded by Speak Life. It’s kind of what would happen if Meet The Parents bumped up against actual first century Nativity,...
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Reflecting On The Year… And why need to celebrate more
As creative people we often beat ourselves up. We could have done more. We should have done more. Everyone else seems to be doing so much better. Hmmmm. Social media amplifies this as we watch other...
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How You Can Define Success for Your No-Budget Guerrilla Film by Brian Barnes
The film market can sometimes be seen as a battle for eyeballs between the studios and lowly independent filmmakers – a kind of David versus Goliath showdown. There is no way your no-budget indie...
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Top 7 things I learned making my first feature ‘I Am The Prize’ by Oliver...
Next Saturday I am hosting a special screening of my debut feature film ‘I Am The Prize’ along with in depth discussion on how I did it and how you can to. So… Making a micro-budget comedy feature...
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