By Ben Crosbie
Ok, so you’ve finished your masterpiece – color corrected until your eyes watered and sound edited until your dog could no longer hear that slight hiss in the audio – but finally your life’s greatest work is complete. All that remains is producing a bunch of copies of the DVD to send off [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Copies, Copies Everywhere.
Posted in Distribution, Documentary Film-making, Documentary Filmmaking, Marketing, Post Production on October 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Arriving at a rough cut via script mid-edit
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking, Post Production, Uncategorized, tagged Documentary Filmmaking, editing, Final Cut Pro, script writing on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Tessa Moran
We’ve finally completed a rough cut of Keeping the Kibbutz after 8 months of editing! Admittedly, the project had been put on hold as we were busy with full-time jobs and paying gigs like our recently completed short Making Mothers. But in recent weeks, as our other work commitments eased, we were [...]
Reminder: Documentary Filmmaking is a Business
Posted in Distribution, Documentary Film-making, Documentary Filmmaking, Research on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Tessa Moran
The work of a documentary filmmaker does not end when the final cut is set. Rather, his work has just begun. Now the film needs to be packaged, marketed and disseminated. After all, one’s film would have been produced in vain if it is never shown to the public. And the now weary filmmaker will [...]
