Archive for the ‘Film/Video’ Category
Team Scattershot Selected to Make a Second 48 Hour Film
Just days after posting the Festival Edition of “The Write Stuff,” I get a call from Mark Ruppert, a producer of the 48 Hour Film Project.
Our motley crew of 35 professional and amateur filmmakers and actors, a.k.a. Team Scattershot, has been selected as one of the top five teams from amongst the 825 teams which competed in 29 local competitions across the US this summer. We will represent San Francisco in the HD Filmmaker Challenge coming this January.
The Los Angeles team was a runner-up. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Hollywood.
So saddle up, everyone. We’re going to make another film in 48 hours. This time with high definition gear. The stakes? The winner gets to keep the HD camera.
The Write Stuff - Festival Edition
The short film that I produced along with Anais Chantre and Jessie Goodpasture that won Best Film at the 2005 San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project has undergone a reedit for submission to film festivals.
So, for 7 minutes of viewing pleasure, an mpeg4 version (.m4v). You may need QuickTime 7.0, which is available for both mac and PC.
The Extra-Large, Ultra-Small Medium
Jodi Kantor of The New York Times made an interesting observation regarding the diverging bleeding edges of television technology, with mammoth wide-screen TVs on one end and the iPod and cell phones on the other.
“Something curious is happening to television: it’s simultaneously growing gigantic and minuscule, stretching across living room walls at the same time it slips into pockets.”
It will certainly be interesting to see how this divergence changes the medium.
The article is entitled The Extra-Large, Ultra-Small Medium:
(Via NYT > Arts.)
Apple as a Media Distribution Company?
James Stoup’s opinion piece, The New Media Paradigm,” which posted on AppleMatters today speculates about how iTunes is poised to rearrange the distribution landscape.
What’s intriguing to me is the potential this has for allowing independent filmmakers, musicians, artists, and other holders of intellectual property to gain access to niche markets that were inaccessible prior to the internet and the virtual storefront with it’s essentially zero shelf-space cost.
Minimum Overdrive
13 minutes, 50 seconds of comedy, action, and suspense. The pacing in this video short is exquisite.
