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You can pre-order the Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera through Hotrod Cameras.
***EXCLUSIVE PRE-ORDER OFFER from Hot Rod Cameras pre-order you camera by May 5, 2012 and we’ll email you a coupon code good for a 25% discount off of our new lightweight interchangeable battery solution for the Blackmagic Cinema Camera- a value of $150! We will be posting full details of the battery system in the coming weeks, you will not be disappointed.
This is a worry free deposit. You can reserve your camera now for only $1 plus the actual cost of shipping! You may also cancel your deposit before paying the balance of your order (or the camera arrives at our warehouse) and receive a 100% refund. We will also honor any price decrease by Blackmagic between the time of your pre-release deposit and the ship date!
We expect to be one of the first dealers with cameras in stock. Official ship date from the factory is “late July”, 2012.
Pretty cool things happening over here, guys!
Google is announcing this morning that YouTube creators can now link their videos to projects onKickstarter and Indiegogo. The company says that these crowd-sourced fundraising platforms were already being used by many YouTube creators, so it wanted to make it easier for those folks to connect their YouTube viewers to their project’s page.
Wow! This could actually really help filmmakers and web series creators to finance their endeavor on YouTube. Interested? Click on the title for more information.
ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is the notorious, unprecedented secret copyright treaty that was negotiated by industry representatives and government trade reps, without any access by elected representatives, independent business, the press, public interest groups, legal scholars, independent economists and so on. Time and again, the world’s richest governmental administrations (only rich countries were in the negotiation) told their own parliaments and congresses that they could not see what was in the treaty, nor know the details of the discussion.
The European Parliament was one of the bodies that asked its administration to share the treaty discussions with the elected members, only to be turned down. Cables in the Wikileaks dumps showed US officials orchestrating this secrecy because they knew how unpopular this one-sided, heavy-handed copyright treaty would be. Freedom of Information requests to the Obama administration confirmed that the reason for the secrecy was the experience in transparent negotiation at the UN, which resulted in an uprising by developing nations, who saw stricter, more expansive copyrights as a means of extracting rents from the world’s poorest people.
Wait! What!? The New Canon Cinema EOS C-300 is up and ready for pre-order at the B&H website. The Retail price is $15,999.00 (The Launch price tag was $20,000. Watch Out RED here comes competition.) and it should be shipping out after Jan 30th.
Big News for us that lives here in U.S. I am pasting here some of the highlights of this camera. I do want to play with it sometime.
Product Highlights
- Super 35mm-Size CMOS Sensor
- EF Lens Mount for Broad Compatibility
- Canon XF Codec - 4:2:2 50 Mb/s MPEG-2
- 1920 x 1080i60 & True 24p Recording
- Rotating 4”, 1.23 Mp LCD Monitor
- HD-SDI Output, XLR Inputs
- Dual CF Card Slots
- Timecode I/O, Genlock In & Sync Out
- Canon Log Gamma
- Modular Design: Removable Grip & Monitor
However, my eyes have been caught by another camera…
Need to read, watch, and hear something funny from our funny man, writer, and director Victor Gregory. He now have a tumblog for you to follow.
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Today I am feeling really good… actually let me rephrase that. I am feeling invincible! I have completed 98.9% of my new upcoming pilot episode of The Haunt Hunter. I will be giving away a private screening to those people who sign up for AWSY’s newsletter. We only have a limited quantity of links to share. Sign up to our newsletter, get a link to our private screening of the Haunt Hunter.
We have worked so hard on this project and this cut it shows the hard work and passion from our cast and crew members. Anthony George and myself we’re extremely proud of our final product. Thanks for your support.
2012 is going to be a very exciting year for us at the Unga Dunga Production.
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I am going to be frank with you on this issue. There’s being a lot of “fanboyism” to describe the weird euphoria that happened a week ago, by the latest release of two camera giants Canon and RED. The C-300 and the Scarlet both camera have created a division between filmmakers which post comments or forums people are calling each other names like; amateur, or rich boy tool bag. Ridiculous, to say the least of this current situation. We have read so many post on how good both are or how not so good both of these cameras are.
However, people have pre-ordered the new RED Scarlet. Which camera should be shipping soon as I am finished writing this. Filmmakers are planning to use this camera for documentaries, TV shows, Low budget films and among other production edeavor.
So all in all. Is this the camera for you? Possibly. Weigh up the pros and cons and the costs especially. Working with the Epic is a dream and a massive pain in the butt that almost always pays off in the end. Despite having 3 shoots which have had huge issues with my Epic. Total lockdown on my first commercial, had to be sent back. BAD skipped frames on “Host” making sync a nightmare and on my last piece, done for fun…The Redneck Hippie buzzing all over the audio. I still love the camera and will continue to shoot with it a lot. But this is the first time in 23 years of shooting that I have gone on a job with a camera that I don’t trust. I worry about how reliable the Scarlet will be. I really hope the all the issues will be ironed out so nobody goes through what I have gone through.
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Last month, the Tribeca Film Institute had a panel of filmmakers from HBO and TFI finalists sharing their knowledge about distribution. Before you go on a film festival try to get these important files that will help get your film or media distributed to the masses.
There are certain obvious materials that are essential to releasing your film, and other not-so-obvious materials that may earn you gold stars and make your film much more attractive to potential distributors.
The list includes from the Essentials to the Delivery folder structure. Don’t miss this, get your files today!
This is a link to an article that I have stumbled upon about how to do freelancing as a filmmaker.
Small excerpt:
A Freelance Filmmaker’s Guide to Making a Living is an ongoing series to help artists from all walks of the filmmaking spectrum work their way through the trenches of the indie film world and a guide on how to come out fiscally ahead.
Now, the first thing everyone will tell you is that rates are always a challenge. Not only do you account for the regional cost of living, but also: market saturation, competitive rates, cost of overhead or gear, experience, talent, and your own availability. The first thing you should really do in this situation is to take a look at your competition. Some people post their rates online but a majority will smartly list them as: negotiable.
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If you are in need of a nice and sturdy video rig. Don’t look any further go check out Gini1 site. They are having a giant blowout sale! Get ‘em while supply lasts!!
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This is our new latest Freebie Thursday. This is our shot log whenever you are shooting a short film, film or a commercial always have this form with you on set. The shot log can be made either as the shoot progresses or after the shoot finishes. If possible, it really helps to do the shot log during the shoot — it will be easier and save you time later.
There are no hard and fast rules regarding the format of the shot log. But do remember to follow our Creative Commons Attribution rules.
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