All posts tagged "We Make Movies (Better)"
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We Make Movies (Better): Inside the Distributor’s Mind with Precious Hilton
Securing distribution is that final nail in the construction project of making a movie—but it’s so hard to tell what exactly goes through the minds...
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We Make Movies (Better): iZotope RX 3 Turns Picture Editors into Audio Editors
We Make Movies’ Sam Mestman reviews the iZotope RX 3 for this week’s DIY Monday blog post. Okay, so full disclosure here: I’m not really...
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We Make Movies (Better): How to Score, Indie Style
The We Make Movies (Better) blog returns for a new installment about another new music option for independent moviemakers, by Sapna Gandhi, Editor-in-Chief of WeMakeMovies.org....
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We Make Movies (Better): How I Learned to build an Avid Editing bay for under $1,500
MovieMaker is reintroducing the We Makes Movies (Better) blog from our friends over at We Make Movies! Look for their brilliant, practical advice straight from...
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We Make Movies (Better): Final Cut Pro X/RED, Part 3
Finishing your RED movie using Final Cut Pro X, Redcine-X, and DaVinci Resolve In Parts 1 and 2, I showed you how to properly set...
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And the Lord Declared: Let there be really high stakes!
Attention all Screenwriters, Graphic Novelists, Novelists-Afraid-Of-Screenwriting, and Waiters, Bankers, Accountants, Teachers, Custodians, Firefighters, Cashiers and Parking Lot Attendants who Dream of Being Screenwriters: You already...
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We Make Movies (Better): Final Cut Pro X/RED, Part 2
In Part 1, I dealt with how to properly prep your RED project for long-term feature film success in Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). Now...
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Shooting The Kitchen: Keeping one location visually interesting
In early 2011, my longtime friend and collaborator, director Ishai Setton, told me about a (very) low-budget feature he was trying to get off the...
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We Make Movies (Better): Final Cut Pro X/RED, Part 1
Part 01: Project Prep – How to properly bring in your RED footage and build your project in FCP X. It’s literally shocking that a...
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We Make Movies (Better): Why you need to seriously consider REDucation-X
While I have fond memories of film school, I also remember immense feelings of frustration. Why did I have to spend all of this damn...
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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...
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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...