If you’ve ever worked on a clip show, or any show that requires lots and lots of clips from movies or television you know the search can be painfully slow and expensive. When producing a clip based show, you have ideas of what clips would work but unless you actually see the footage in the … Read more
I’m big on time travel stories and when I imagine myself travelling to an earlier time, I can’t quite wrap my wits around how I would survive without my iPhone. It makes you wonder how people in the early 20th century survived without instant access. In fact, they didn’t have to, they had newsreels. Ten … Read more
To start off with, I want to say how honored I am that Maria let me take over her blog for the day. This is a blog that I pay close attention to, and when Maria asked if I would write something about the EgoFest Short Film Festival here in Minnesota, I just about fell … Read more
When it comes to pioneers in cable television MTV sits at the head of the wagon train. They launched a network in an era when many of my dear friends were just beginning their TV careers; and like my friends who helped MTV blaze the trail, the network was young, ambitious, and created something brand … Read more
If you’re registered on any social networking site you can and will be found by someone who wants to find you. In this case that someone could be a ‘journalist’ trying to corroborate or enhance their story. For example, when Tiger Woods’ infidelity scandal was front page news, everyone weighed in on it including The … Read more
Surviving in the digital age as a filmmaker requires knowing the latest in lenses, cameras, shooting formats and ways to tell a story. At 83 film director Roger Corman of Little Shop of Horrors and Pit and the Pendulum fame is most definitely changing with the times. His latest venture Splatter staring Corey Feldman has … Read more