Articles – Digital
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Revenue Record: Yekra Crushes with Online Doc
Like everyone else trying to forecast the economic landscape of independent film, over here at the MovieMaker offices, we think a lot about innovations in the VOD...
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Crowdfunder Pick: Sidewalk Traffic Steers Toward $25K
The indie film Sidewalk Traffic is raising funds on RocketHub to fund their post-production needs. MovieMaker.com’s Trailblazer Tuesday brings together industry and fringe innovation — moviemaking at...
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Tech Reviews: FCPX Plugins and App Roundup
A relatively large 3rd party ecosystem has sprung up around Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). Here are some of the programs, apps and FCPX plugins...
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4K Revolution: New Standard Delivery Format Looms
If you happened to be walking around the floor this year at NAB, you probably noticed that 4K was everywhere. Whether it was Blackmagic’s 4K Production...
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Online Oscar voting, downloading Australia, and an increase in home video sales
Academy Rolling Out Online Voting Online voting for the Academy Awards is rolling out this season. Leaving no geriatric voters behind, the Academy is still...
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All I Want for Christmas: An FCPX Pro Editor’s Buying Guide
A lot has changed tech-wise in the last couple years when it comes to post-production needs. Things you used to think you needed to edit...
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Facing the Digital Dilemma
It was still the dawn of the motion picture industry in 1913 when a newspaper critic asked Sarah Bernhardt why she was wasting her precious...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Tadpole The DP has the hardest job. From the microskill to the macroskill, I feel with the level of DV that InDigEnt uses, the hardest...
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Crazy Like a Fox
InDigEnt founder Gary Winick directs Bebe Neuwirth in Tadpole. From the no-name independent masses to Hollywood’s hottest auteurs, moviemakers of all stripes and budgets have...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
You can only learn from your own mistakes. The one lesson I’ve learned over and over again is that you can only learn from your...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
1Inside the Issue: Directing
Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...