Greener Grass

As you advance your new career as a flic maker, you are going to have to get some "tools." I've given you some in previous blogs...here are more:

First, Stu Maschwitz is the author of The DV Rebels Guide and co-founder of The Orphanage effects house. He has a blog right here on Blogger called ProLost. If you're not familiar with The Orphanage...looky here!

Next is Mark Christiansen. He is the author of Adobe After Effects (6.5 & 7) Studio Techniques. He is also the #1 beta tester for After Effects. Go to his blog called Flowseeker.

And, I have learned tons (not knowing how to use After Effects until now ) from Andrew Kramer of CreativeCow.com and Video Copilot.net. Go into ITunes and d/l CreativeCow's video blogs (there are two so far) and (if you have inexpensively acquired After Effects 6.5,) do those projects!

These three professionals are taking me to the next level of flic making. Thanks guys!

By the way, Hellboy has a ton of special features on the making of that movie. Also Guillermo del Toro, the director, and the creator of Hellboy comics, Mark Mignola, do an informative commentary together. Dave Basulto is hot right now. His podcast, Filmmaking Central is going strong and he'll soon be broadcasting a video podcast. Be sure to d/l his interviews with both Mark Christiansen and Stu Maschwitz.

Coming up: Today, my business partner informed me of an idea he has for a sequel to a short film we did last month! He's supposed to email me with the script tonight. I will check it over and throw him some ideas back, then we'll schedule a shoot. I think he's talked with the principal actors from the first short and they're on-board. Check back for details of the process we use to make this flic.

Exciting stuff!