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  1. Uranium City

    watch Suite: Billy Gutz

    Here's an essay movie which is also a good example of how even amidst catastrophic equipment failure, art can still be made. I sold this movie for $400 to a literary journal last year, and it was distributed in their annual DVD issue to over 3,500 subscribers. Please enjoy SUITE: Billy Gutz...
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    Turn on closed-captioning and learn about sound design

    The people writing the closed-captions on Netflix are KILLING IT. If you are new to filmmaking and want a crash-course on sound design, watch some movies on Netflix or Hulu with the captions turned on. You'll often find that they caption every single sound element within any given scene and...
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    Magic Bullet crashing Vegas Pro 9

    Anyone here experience this? I've seen a whole bunch of answers that aren't working for me. I'll add Magic Bullet to the effects chain of a clip and when I go to edit the settings it'll either say "Can't find a usable frame to open the editing window" or it will start to open, hang up, and...
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    watch Fragments: The Contents Of A Box

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hc4XWxfHdk I did this last week for a literary journal contest. Completely one-man band. Prize is $400! Hope I win. SPECIFICS AND PARTICULARS: Camera: Canon Vixia HFS100 Light: Home Depot aluminum cone thing with the clamp, 75w bulb Sound: Zoom H4n with a...
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    Google+ required for YouTube???

    Happy Boxing Day! I disabled my Google+ account a year ago, and suddenly discovered it was turned back on a couple of weeks ago so I disabled it again. Suddenly my YouTube videos were all set to private. The message indicated I couldn't make them public unless I reactivated my Google+ account...
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    watch Excellent Haircuts

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM93lbU-hos This is completely crowdsourced, and by crowdsourced I mean I got much of my source material from you guys, the Indietalk crowd! I had written a jazzy, beatnik-like street poem about the death of barbershops and wanted to capture it on film. I asked...
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    Indie Go Go request

    Hello friends, I'm born again hard and back to work. I've written a screenplay for a short film called "Olivia's Cross" which will be produced and directed by the very talented Robert Joseph Butler . We are seeking contributions to help fund the portion of the film which will be shot in...
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    Handbrake

    What happened to the "Target File Size" option on the new release??? That was so convenient for getting things under Vimeo's limit and other uses. Anyone know of a work around?
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    watch Inspired - Fortnight Challenge

    This is our entry for the Capital City Film Festival's Fortnight Film Challenge. A generous two weeks to make a short from scratch, using these elements: an umbrella, a body of water, dancing, and the line of dialog "where are we going?" I'll never do a 48 hour again. They're just not fun...
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    watch The Sky Is Purple

    My latest micro, a meditation on childhood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBzxeow-058
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    Kubrick's Fear and Desire debuts tonight

    Stanley Kubrick's first feature, Fear and Desire, debuts tonight at 8:00 on Turner Classic Movies. Fear and Desire on TCM I'm no longer the coolest kid in school. I rented a badly bootlegged copy in Chicago 12 years ago and made a dub myself, of course. Of all the Kubrick ephemera the people...
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    watch Marigolds

    Wanted to see if I could make something interesting just from cell phone pictures, and this is what I came up with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuZbZpYkR7U
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    Public Access Financing

    Here's an avenue for financing your films that'd I'd not considered before: We just got a grant from the Lansing Community Media Center (public access television) for $10,000 in new equipment in exchange for producing 12 hours of original programming over the next year. They had up to $120,000...
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    Elaborate credit graphics

    Just got back from a glorious day at the East Lansing Film Festival and saw many fine, fine films. But one aspect of nearly all of them is still sticking in my craw and I have to share it here: Elaborate, gorgeous, fancy, tutorial-learned After Effects credit sequences tacked onto films that...
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    Mr. Henderson at the East Lansing Film Festival

    Proud to be a part of this one. One of the oldest and most respected film festivals in the region. Late notice, but if you're around Mid-Michigan this morning, come out to MSU and catch us on the big screen and ask me questions about world hunger and aviation at the panel discussion afterwards...
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    WINNING!

    Spinner's documentary Downseed won the jury prize for best documentary and my short Mr. Henderson won the audience award for best narrative at the Riverside Saginaw Film Festival in Michigan this past weekend. :director: (That's me tooting our horns)
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    Spinner and Uranium City Live in Saginaw

    Hey folks, fellow IndieTalk regular Spinner and myself both have films screening this Saturday, November 5th, at the Riverside Saginaw Film Festival in Saginaw, Michigan. Her documentary Downseed is screening with my narrative Mr. Henderson. Unfortunately I'm otherwise engaged that night, so I...
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    Ukranian Happenings

    Anyone heard of this? "Five years ago, a relatively unknown (and unhinged) director began one of the wildest experiments in film history. Armed with total creative control, he invaded a Ukrainian city, marshaled a cast of thousands and thousands, and constructed a totalitarian society in which...
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    watch Autumn Meditation

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzE1bLE1T2Q Wanted to use a macro adapter in the opposite way, to make a scene super blurry, and came up with this. Happy Fall! It's the most wonderful time of the year.
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    Deferred Payment, People vs. George Lucas

    Couple of interesting posts about the deferred payment contract for the guy who did the artwork for "The People vs. George Lucas." First, the original editorial: An Open Letter to The Director of The People vs. George Lucas And the even more illuminating response: A Response from Director...
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