Lianne Silano is one of our fabulous interns and is also an actress-in-waiting. She has really impressed the Raindance team with her hard work and willingness to accept some of the most boring tasks imaginable at Raindance - like emailing each and every inquiry for our popular Saturday Film School - 30 - 60 different emails a day.
Imagine my delight when she put together an article of the 10 main acting schools and built a new article on the Raindance Film Festival website. And all this from a passing comment that I couldn't really remember a few of the main acting schools.
Read her: So You Want To Be An Actor and get informed yourself.
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Filmmaking: The Terrible Job Everyone Wants
We are getting ready to launch the 19th edition of the Raindance Film Festival with a stellar lineup of 100 features, nearly 150 short films from a record-breaking 36 countries.
Thats about 250 heart breaking stories from the participating filmamkers about how hard it is to make it.
Want more? I dare you: Read Filmmaking: The Terrible Job Everyone Wants
Thats about 250 heart breaking stories from the participating filmamkers about how hard it is to make it.
Want more? I dare you: Read Filmmaking: The Terrible Job Everyone Wants
To LIve od Die In LA
One of the great thing about the Raindance Film Festival is you get to reconnect with filmmakers from all over the world - a bit like a mini-Cannes
One such filmmaker is Justin McGoldrick who worked his butt off here in London last year as one of our fabulous interns - and then went back to the States where he just finished another 6 month internship
He has written up some excellent advice
Read:
5 Things I Learned As A LA Film Intern
One such filmmaker is Justin McGoldrick who worked his butt off here in London last year as one of our fabulous interns - and then went back to the States where he just finished another 6 month internship
He has written up some excellent advice
Read:
5 Things I Learned As A LA Film Intern
10 Key Film Trends for 2011
My 2 main pre-occupations are the Raindance Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards. Every waking moment I, and the fabulous Raindance team, do nothing except watch films, read scripts and talk to filmmakers, agents, financiers and distributors.
There were a number of troubing and currently unresolved issues this year. The continued implosian of the world's bankers thanks to their indiscriminate greed coupled with awe-inspiring lack of judgement. I fear they haven't changed a thing, and that we could be in for another total whammy.
And secondly, what we are doing to the environment causes me huge concern. And finally, what of our personal freedom and the freedom of the internet as ably and aptly pointed out by the entire Wikileaks fiasco. In fact I think there are many things filmmakers can learn from Julian Assange's Wikileaks.
Here are the key things we think matter to the world of independent film, in no particular order:
1. Alternative Content in Cinema
Digital and 3D screens are being installed in many British cinemas in a trend which will sweep the world.Read the rest...
Film Finance Primer
The basics of film finance are actually quite simple. It's hard to get the money, but I have outlined the basics in my Film Finance Primer.
Are You Making These 4 Deadly Film Mistakes
We are announcing the nominations for this year's British Independent Film Awards on Monday November 1st. As usual there will be tears and jeers for the films not selected.
Have been through this 13 times now (since 1998) one gets to meet a lot of filmmakers. I have to ask:
Are You Making These 4 Deadly Film Mistakes
http://bit.ly/9JQcSv
Have been through this 13 times now (since 1998) one gets to meet a lot of filmmakers. I have to ask:
Are You Making These 4 Deadly Film Mistakes
http://bit.ly/9JQcSv
Independent's Day Filmmaker's Toolkit 2010
I'm quite proud of this one: Christian Bell, one of our fabulous interns, put this one together:
Our annual July 4th Raindance Independent Filmmaker's Toolkit now online
Our annual July 4th Raindance Independent Filmmaker's Toolkit now online
How Filmmakers Annoy Journalists
I was having a morning coffee in Soho, London today with one of the country's leading film critic. He was waiting for a preview screening across the road at Mr Youngs (now called Soho Screening Room).
We were discussing how filmmakers approach journalists, or not, when this journo launched into a tirade.
I made notes as fast as I could and then typed it up:
10 Ways Filmmakers Annoy Journalists.
Enjoy
We were discussing how filmmakers approach journalists, or not, when this journo launched into a tirade.
I made notes as fast as I could and then typed it up:
10 Ways Filmmakers Annoy Journalists.
Enjoy
What a Film Director Does After You Shout CUT!
Your are shooting like mad. You are on a take. You shout CUT!
What happens in the next 10 seconds - there are ten essentials you need to do, and six of them need to happen in 10 seconds.
Read the list here
What happens in the next 10 seconds - there are ten essentials you need to do, and six of them need to happen in 10 seconds.
Read the list here
Watching Entry after Entry
Everyone at Raindance is watching movie after movie after movie film submission.
Sometimes I stand up to stretch.
Sometimes I stay curled up in a ball.
Thanks god the weather is so crap in London
Fascinating work this year.
Sometimes I stand up to stretch.
Sometimes I stay curled up in a ball.
Thanks god the weather is so crap in London
Fascinating work this year.
Twitter: Taking The World By Storm
by Melissa Brown
A friend told me to check her last “tweet.” I stared at her, confused, unsure what exactly her last “tweet” was. Embarrassed I asked her what tweet meant and she quickly rushed me off to the nearest computer to show me how to use twitter myself. It is not until now, two months later, that I am starting to understand the power of the “tweet.”
At first, I thought it was just a bunch of updates on my every day life. Easy enough I thought. I could “follow” John Mayer if I wanted to! Done and done. It wasn’t until I started getting “following” e-mails from random people who were watching my updates that I began to realize the wrath of the “tweeting” process. Twitter went from a non-existent word to an everyday slip of the tongue seemingly over night. People are “twittering” all around the globe and in many different languages. Simply to keep others updated daily or even hourly.
Yet, I am having a hard time understanding the fascination in regards to twittering. Companies are using it to market their products and events. Celebrities are using it to maintain in the spotlight. When it comes down to it, it is just another way to connect thousands and thousands of people who would normally would never exchange hellos. (I’m following John Mayer’s every update now aren’t I?)
I have to ask, what is next? Twitter seems to be the new Facebook and before that Facebook became the new MySpace. What more can we possibly do to communicate on every single level possible: you can now “tweet” from your phone, write on a friends Facebook wall with a blackberry and even log onto MySpace anywhere and everywhere. It’s more than communicating; it’s a 24-7 constant update.
With the new technologies made to help us communicate with each other, where has the personal face-to-face communication gone?
See the rest of the article HERE
A friend told me to check her last “tweet.” I stared at her, confused, unsure what exactly her last “tweet” was. Embarrassed I asked her what tweet meant and she quickly rushed me off to the nearest computer to show me how to use twitter myself. It is not until now, two months later, that I am starting to understand the power of the “tweet.”
At first, I thought it was just a bunch of updates on my every day life. Easy enough I thought. I could “follow” John Mayer if I wanted to! Done and done. It wasn’t until I started getting “following” e-mails from random people who were watching my updates that I began to realize the wrath of the “tweeting” process. Twitter went from a non-existent word to an everyday slip of the tongue seemingly over night. People are “twittering” all around the globe and in many different languages. Simply to keep others updated daily or even hourly.
Yet, I am having a hard time understanding the fascination in regards to twittering. Companies are using it to market their products and events. Celebrities are using it to maintain in the spotlight. When it comes down to it, it is just another way to connect thousands and thousands of people who would normally would never exchange hellos. (I’m following John Mayer’s every update now aren’t I?)
I have to ask, what is next? Twitter seems to be the new Facebook and before that Facebook became the new MySpace. What more can we possibly do to communicate on every single level possible: you can now “tweet” from your phone, write on a friends Facebook wall with a blackberry and even log onto MySpace anywhere and everywhere. It’s more than communicating; it’s a 24-7 constant update.
With the new technologies made to help us communicate with each other, where has the personal face-to-face communication gone?
See the rest of the article HERE
10 Things Producer's Should Know About Story But Ususally Don't
I can't believe how many filmmakers dont take the time to learn about story.
I'm calming down now but trying to make some helpful constructive suggestions in the form of an article of use to screenwriter's here in London, and abroad: 10 Things Producers Should Know About Story
I'm calming down now but trying to make some helpful constructive suggestions in the form of an article of use to screenwriter's here in London, and abroad: 10 Things Producers Should Know About Story
UK Indie Film Case Study
We are really pleased to have started a new video blog by the exceptionally coherent and frank, Johan Neethling.
Everything you have wanted to now about crowd sourcing, UK film tax finance advantages and much more about financing your film. You can enjoy it over on Raindance.tv
Everything you have wanted to now about crowd sourcing, UK film tax finance advantages and much more about financing your film. You can enjoy it over on Raindance.tv
Getting Ready For Your Film Festival Screening
Everyone in the office is watching films for 6-8 hours a day. Shorts, features and documentaries.
It works like this:
We are just 2 weeks away from the final deadline. Every day the mailman brings one or two big sacks full of mail. I acyually enjoy dumping the bags on the floor and separating the festival entries from the bills.
The entries are then piled behind Suzanne's desk. She opens and starts the cataloguing process by stuffing the press kit and DVD into a plastic file folder, with a code, and category (ie: short feature documentary)
Amelie then inputs the films details onto our database.
Suzanne and the rest of the team watch movies every single day.
When I watch a movie I like to flick through the press kit while the movie is loading in my laptop. It's truly amazing how few filmmakers understand how to put together a press kit.
One of the important elements of a press kit is a press release.
Last year, at a similar moment of frustration with sub-par press kits, I asked Brett Welcher to write an article on hoe to write a press release. He was interning at Raindance at that time, and majoring in PR
You can read his article: How To Write A Press Release
It works like this:
We are just 2 weeks away from the final deadline. Every day the mailman brings one or two big sacks full of mail. I acyually enjoy dumping the bags on the floor and separating the festival entries from the bills.
The entries are then piled behind Suzanne's desk. She opens and starts the cataloguing process by stuffing the press kit and DVD into a plastic file folder, with a code, and category (ie: short feature documentary)
Amelie then inputs the films details onto our database.
Suzanne and the rest of the team watch movies every single day.
When I watch a movie I like to flick through the press kit while the movie is loading in my laptop. It's truly amazing how few filmmakers understand how to put together a press kit.
One of the important elements of a press kit is a press release.
Last year, at a similar moment of frustration with sub-par press kits, I asked Brett Welcher to write an article on hoe to write a press release. He was interning at Raindance at that time, and majoring in PR
You can read his article: How To Write A Press Release
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