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- Licensed music for video on a budget
Geoffrey Pope I appreciate film composers. My go-to guy, composer and conductor Geoffrey Pope, gives me above-and-beyond work, quickly and painlessly to my picture-locked commercial work. "Simply put," Pope notes, "music written for a particular purpose can convey things that stock music can't. Most people aren't actively aware of this, but there is a powerful subliminal component to every musical choice we make-whether it's in the melody, harmony, timbre or equalization. Good composers know thi…
Updated 3 days ago # - aaronproctor: Dangers of Silver Lake: hipster cruises thru cross walk while on cell phone and smiles back at you as you flick them off
Updated 3 days ago via twitter.com - aaronproctor: Environmental activist Chut Wutty, killed by Cambodian military, remembered in photos by @mathieuyoung http://t.co/kEUJtVoo @nytimesphoto
Updated a week ago via twitter.com - 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 week left in David Driver's Indiegogo drive to raise $20,000 for his feature, "Way of Life." It's close -- really close. I asked the filmmaker, and personal long-time mentor, what it take to get this far, how does it compare with other fundraising choices, and what's involved in wrapping it up to ensure a strong finish. Describe your overall experience of continuing to complete this lon…
Updated a week ago # - aaronproctor: @cinespia Looking forward to the new season! The 2011 date on website header/footer threw me off until I saw the correction on Ticketfly.
Updated a week ago via twitter.com - aaronproctor: Hey, Morten Tyldum, director of the new international thriller "Headhunters" ("Hodejegerne")? Nicely done filmmaking
Updated 2 weeks ago via twitter.com - aaronproctor: RT @sovincesays: thanks @aaronproctor for a great shoot today! can't wait to see the final cut
Updated 3 weeks ago via twitter.com - aaronproctor: Shooting a spot in Dallas, Texas next Wednesday! Any local camera crew recommendations?
Updated 3 weeks ago via twitter.com - 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 Epic and Scarlet is "upgrading," and Canon is getting a run for its money from Sony and Nikon. Now, this last Monday at NAB, from the color grading company Blackmagic Design is a new 2.5k-resolution camera, starting at $3,000 and shipping in July. To sweeten the deal, all of this is included in the pricetag: RAW / ProRes422 right out of the can (ala ALEXA), color timing software…
Updated about a month ago # - aaronproctor: Pre-film ads ("First Look") that repeat themselves, like the one for the lottery? Tacky
Updated about a month ago via twitter.com - aaronproctor: Thanks for the follow, @JesseMcCartney! Loved working with you on the "Wanted" spot with @michaelgrecco http://t.co/mhkUhWQB
Updated about a month ago via twitter.com - 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 out and hanging out with friends rather than watching reality TV on the couch" and tracked well over social media shares (via Mediapost) Aside from whether a movie is shot on film or not, what's pushing projection away from film? "Today, the driving force isn't so much a single movie as it is the studios' bottom line -- they no longer want to pay to physically print and ship movies.…
Updated about a month ago # - [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 and sequel screening with the sound off -- come by to watch dozens back-to-back, meet their crew, and also some of the FWD:labs collective; the same event is also April 17 and 24 "Rear Window" Timelapse re-imagines the original footage into a giant re-positioned frame, from a film shot almost entirely from the same vantage point (via screenwriter Eric Szyszka) "Battle Lizard" is…
Updated about a month ago # - aaronproctor: Why does @Ticketmaster charge two extra fees, a third secret fee, and then not allow you to specify a shipping address? #fail
Updated about a month ago via twitter.com - The Sundance Experience of "The Surrogate"
Producer Doug Blake's most recent film, "The Surrogate" -- which he co-produced and stars John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, and William H. Macy -- premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival and took home an Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize for dramatic ensemble acting. I sat down with Doug to discuss the experience. There was a bidding war at Sundance for "The Surrogate." What was that like? Doug Blake [The bidding war] was very interesting. The big thing of course was the overwhelming audie…
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