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Financing Your Video Business

Financing Your Video Business

by Hal Landen Let's consider all the possible ways to finance a start-up video production business. There are loans, bootstrapping, friends and family, grants, Kickstarter, and saving the money yourself. Loans Banks are in the business of loaning money, but they are...

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

April 25 - 27 every year is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. Pinhole photography is photography without a lens. Instead of a lens, there's a tiny hole in the camera box. Light enters the camera through the hole just like it would through a lens. The light forms an...

8 Tips To Keep Your Film Legal

8 Tips To Keep Your Film Legal

It's not hard to keep your film legal if you follow the following guidelines. 1. All music, even a short riff, must be cleared unless it is royalty-free music. Most royalty-free music has a license you should read carefully to understand how you can use it and for how...

Rules For Directors by Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes is best known for directing American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award for best director. He also directed the James Bond movie Skyfall (2012) as well as musical stage productions of Cabaret and Oliver! At a recent Manhattan theater event,...

Rode’s Videomic Shotgun Perfect For DSLRs

Rode’s Videomic Shotgun Perfect For DSLRs

by David Rennie Trinity Wedding Cinema Since switching to DSLR one thing I have been slow (too slow) at adding is a shotgun mic to make up for the pathetic audio that the built in mic on my beloved Canon SLR's captures. Anyone using a DSLR knows what I am talking...