Stay Away From Bad Stuff, With Sarah St. Claire

This was an unusual project where I received a bunch of photoshop files and make a simple storybook animation following the narration of Sarah Silverman. I'm not proficient in motion graphics, but I'm glad that the final product came out better than everyone's expectations.

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It was a straight forward edit but I got compliments for it, hence the post. :)

Video Review of Avatar

I liked it because it deconstructs its narrative pulls & pushes instead of shiny new 3D technology as its main box-office appeal.

iPad for Filmmakers

There are already many great iPhone / iPot touch apps for filmmakers and this article aggregates them into one place with the wishlist for the new dawn of iPad apps.

Che and the Digital Cinema Revolution

I like where Steven Soderbergh talks of micro-level of filmmaking proficiency thanks to all the advances in technology, yet macro-level, there's a sense of loss in overall rhythm of a film or the structure from the beginning to the end. I agree that in the last process of editing is just soaking the whole film in, until you feel it's just right.

On Marketing Your Film

"End of the day, I didn't make the movie for a poster, but I made the movie so people could see it."

The New World of Distribution

NYT: Declaration of Indies: Just Sell It Yourself! "It might seem counterintuitive that D.I.Y. independents are borrowing a page from the George Lucas playbook. But only if you forget that Mr. Lucas is the most successful independent filmmaker in history. 20th Century Fox distributed the first “Star Wars,” yet Mr. Lucas kept the sequel and merchandising rights. “If I make money,” he said when the movie was released, “it will be from the toys.” The new generation of D.I.Y. filmmakers might not be pushing toys on their Web sites (though I’d like to see an Andrew Bujalski action figure), but they do peddle DVDs, posters, CDs, books and — much as Spike Lee did before them — are getting hip to selling themselves alongside their art."

Forget studio dollars and hustle for street dimes if you plan to go indie.