Do you need to know about stage blood? Weller discusses
the history of stage blood. You know what I like about folks like Steven J. Weller? He actually
teaches you about stuff. There are people in the world who feel that the knowledge they have is somehow proprietary and they are afraid of other people learning from them because somehow that decreases their own power. That's a load of hooey, the more you teach the more
you know. But some people believe it.
Anyway, Weller's blog is great.
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Pond 5 has a
public domain project which looks interesting.
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The
DAMN Film Series is next February 4. I won't be there because I'll be at the dentist that day instead. But you should totally go.
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Would you like a from-the-horse's mouth prediction about the state of low-budget filmmaking? 4K is definitely coming (unlike 3D). So we're going to all have to be delivering 4K. Soon.
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My bet is that you're wrong on 4K. (the public doesn't seem to give a shit about 4K TVs, so demand isn't that great...I think 4K is still quite a ways away from being any kind of standard.)
Not that it matters to me, mind you. I just bought a 4K camera. Dunno if I'll shoot a movie with it, but hey, it's there!
The "public" is one thing. Buyers are another. Even Netflix and Amazon are pretending they're 4k now. So even if it's really compressed, they get to say it's 4K. But I think the issue is what the distributors want, for whatever reason. And word is, they're gonna start wanting 4K...
I bet it's gonna be a case of "they want" but it's not necessary. Hell, I haven't seen a movie yet that's advertised as "Shot in 4K!" because nobody cares. And the distributors are only going to REALLY start to care when audiences do, because that's where the money is coming from...
What you say is true. I think it's all in the VOD market. Everybody's trying to make VOD work. Nobody has. But there are VOD buyers who like to pretend they're delivering in 4K.
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