Ordinarily, I don’t like speculative posts. At times I find them even counter-productive, because they can often wind people up with pie-in-the-sky “what-ifs,” but provide no real actionable items. So that’s not my intent here. Here I just wanted to throw out some ideas for viewing/releasing a film, and see what others think about them. [...]
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Providing Your Actors with External Stimuli
Note: This post was inspired by my own complaints that the DIY movement seemed to spend very little time on craft, as opposed to distribution. So I decided to put my money where my mouth was and try to start some conversations on craft.
Working with actors is probably my favorite part of making films.
One thing [...]
LOST CHILDREN TRANSMEDIA PLAN
In this video, I talk about the transmedia effort for the film Coraline. Here’s the panel I attended where the creators talk about what they did: SUNDANCE TRANSMEDIA PANEL.
In this video, I also talk about the main points of THE LOST CHILDREN plan. They are:
Add new story-related content to our site every week throughout the [...]
THE LOST CHILDREN TRANSMEDIA EFFORT
I pretty much say everything in the video, so I won’t repeat it here. But I wanted to provide a couple of the links I talk about in the video:
THE LOST CHILDREN website
and
THE LOST CHILDREN Transmedia Kickstarter Campaign If this stuff is useful to you as a filmmaker, you might consider supporting our Kickstarter campaign. [...]
Finding People to Work With
Mark Harris has been producing movies for a while now. He did an online comedy series, called Man-Hole, then started gravitating toward genre films. He loves horror, sci-fi, and noir. Most of his movies reveal those influences. The Lost Children is Mark’s first feature film. He plans on producing one per year for the next [...]