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• Grass Roots Filmmaking

  by redraptor February 7, 2010
  If a group of serious, interested filmmakers collaborated on a large scale, investing money as a venture capitalist firm might do but into itself with the promise of pay-off then it would be possible for them to create a professional looking film and get it shown in theaters. I estimate a feature le...

• herding Cats

  by redraptor February 5, 2010
  I'd like to say I'm the unofficial expert on actor management because I work with a large group of unreliable, unpaid, immature, no attention span, and destructive actors. And I've made films with them. Before I get to the first thing on the actors, there's something we should all know about ourselv...

• Success on a Tight Schedule (Director's Version)

  by redraptor February 5, 2010
  Sorry this post is late, I've been putting this off all day but here it is. All you directors out there learn from my mistakes. First point is script obviously. It's perfectly reasonable to have a script floating around for a few months, it's good actually. Some of my best scripts have been revisite...

• Success on a Tight Schedule (Editor Version)

  by redraptor February 3, 2010
  This is for all you editors out there, this is a condensed how to succeed in a short time frame in terms of delivering a final product. Directors, you can help out your editors by taking a look through this since alot of it will be you. It's really quite simple: plan ahead. But of course it'd be sil...

• Yes more Talk on Copyright

  by redraptor February 3, 2010
  I was thinking through the moral and philosophical implications of copyright with my buddy josh last night and this is basically what I worked out. There are 3 factors to consider and if you ask me this is some much needed narrowing of the hazy line drawn between copyright infraction and normal, leg...

• Red Flags of the Employer

  by redraptor February 1, 2010
  Might as well start with the one I was talking about yesterday, the employer who doesn't want you or him to use a contract is generally out to steal from you. Even if he isn't out to extort his workers you guys can run into too many miscommunications without atleast one contract. So let's say you've...

• Freelance

  by redraptor January 31, 2010
  The ultimate goal of film is to make money at it. There I've said it. What's that? You're in it to produce amazing visuals and portray compelling stories? Me too but I can't reach larger audiences or even produce real quality without funding. Welcome to Capitalism, now go out and get money doing wha...

• How NOT To Make Professional Film

  by redraptor January 30, 2010
  The best thing you can do for yourself is learn from the internet bubble a few years back. They started businesses left and right on improbable yet cool ideas that were in no way profitable, but hey they were still damn cool. Then they set themselves up in a big office and filled it with comfortable...

• the Renaissance Man knows very little about everything

  by redraptor January 29, 2010
  The title says it all so if decipher it than I guess you don't need to read this blog. But if you want to get more details I'm happy to oblige; all of you practicing film out there, you're probably working on a variety of things and styles and I'm here to tell you that that is a mistake. While it ma...