We Make TV & Film and Help You Do The Same
Whether a great piece of software, video or film camera, an incredible book, or any other tool that helps us make film and television, we share the tools we use to get things done.
Several months ago we told you about a Kickstarter project we were backing called SnapFocus from Midas Mount. It’s an ingenious piece of indie film making gear made from spare bicycle parts that allows you to control your camera’s focus using bicycle brake handles. It was invented by a filmmaker and former editor of ours, … Read more
What magic is this wizard cooking up?
A young man teams up with his aging neighborhood machinist to create an almost magical piece of filmmaking gear — inspired by bicycle parts.
The sequel to Hugo?
No, the true story of Brandon David Cole (indie filmmaker, editor, giant dreamer) and his new invention, the SnapFocus Follow Focus System.
By now, you’ve all heard about our Kickstarter for an Oscar® campaign, and if you haven’t, you can learn more here.
We wanted to collect all the tips, tricks, and resources we’ve put together for you over the first two-thirds of our Kickstarter campaign into one easy to access page.
(We were able to raise over $20,000 in the first 48 hours, broke our goal in just five days and five hours, and are still raising money for our Indie Oscar® Campaign as we speak.)
We’ll add to these over time. Hope these Kickstarter tips and tricks help you raise thousands of dollars for your passion project.
Karen Everett keeps a fascinating site called New Doc Editing. At first glance you might think it’s just a promotional site to sell her (highly rated) services, but that would be a huge mistake.
By now, you’ve all heard about our Kickstarter for an Oscar® campaign, and if you haven’t, you can learn more here.
Let’s face it…we all know that sometimes Kickstarter campaigns can tire everyone out.
Since we don’t believe in asking without giving, we’re working to provide something of real value every day we bug you to join our effort to fund our Academy Award® campaign.
Holy Cow. $299 for Final Cut Pro X. Downloads directly to your computer. Available in June. Apple is making a huge statement: we want to rule the editing universe. If you’ve been around this blog, you know that we have some pretty heavy-duty uses for Final Cut Pro. I edited Dying to do Letterman on … Read more
I still remember the day Nate Orloff, our assistant editor, came in with his iPad. It was geek-out-at-first-sight. Everyone in the office was excited, myself included. I am a geek, after all, and the iPad was truly Geek-a-licious.
Nate and I even put together a short video showing how to write a screenplay on an iPad using Pages and a screenwriting template we made (this was before there was a plethora of screenwriting apps on the App Store).
When Nate told me his idea for an iPad app called Cut Notes, I was jazzed. It’s only appropriate that Nate found Jon Chappell of Digital Rebellion the same way I found Nate, via Twitter. They partnered up last fall and a few weeks ago, released version v1.0 of Cut Notes for iPad.
Jon Chappell and Nate Orloff found time to answer a few of my questions about the app and the process making it:
Just a quick post to tell you about an incredible free resource we stumbled upon recently. It’s the site of Christopher Holland, Film Festival Secrets . Not only is his site jam-packed with information to give you film festival success, but Mr. Holland has written a free e-book that is the must-download free e-book of … Read more
UPDATE: This post is almost about three years old now. There are certainly better ways to write a screenplay on the iPad now. That said, in the comments Doug has provided a link to a working update of the template.
Sure, Final Draft has announced that there will be some kind of iPad version of their screenwriting software, and Black Manna has a screenplay program that runs on the iPhone (which theoretically should work on the iPad in a zoomed in “iPhone” manner, but the company says they’ll be releasing an official iPad version soon.)
In the mean time, if you have your shiny new iPad, and want to write a screenplay in full on iPad mode…what to do?