BBC has launched New Music Shorts 2007

The BBC has launched New Music Shorts 2007 – an initiative offering aspiring filmmakers a £5,000 budget to make a music-based short film with a professional production company and have it premiered at the BBC Electric Proms festival in October.

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Why do images captured on celluloid have a sort of "glossy look" when well-mastered dv-footage doesn't?

It's notoriously difficult to make DV look "glossy". Why do images originated on celluloid tend to look sexy? Can we achieve that same look on DV?

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Creating A Press Kit

Raindance's Elliot Grove has once again shared some industry insights on UKFilm! Check out his thoughts on Creating A Press Kit .

The article is an excerpt from his book Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking.

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Creating a Press Kit

This is the most important element of the filmmaking process, and ironically, the one most often overlooked by new filmmakers. If you hire the best cinematographer, screenwriter and actors in the world to work for you, they will make you a film: eight thousand feet of celluloid with absolutely no marketable value. You cannot sell a film. You can only sell a movie. You turn a film into a movie by using publicity to create a buzz, or hype for your film.

Additionally, publicity will attract acquisition executives to your movie.

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"The Board" start shooting today

The low budget feature film The Board has begun shooting. Read about it in their production diary

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Getting Ideas

Writing a screenplay is very hard. Writing a good screenplay involves a good amount of fortune, and a strong belief in the first biblical reference. But like everything else, I believe that there can be a plan. And with a good plan you stand a better chance of succeeding. The key to becoming a successful screenwriter is really very basic - get great ideas, write them down in a distinct personal style, circulate each finished script in the film community and as soon as one script is finished, start the next. If it is so basic, why isn't everyone doing it? Because writing a screenplay is difficult. Writing a truly great screenplay is very, very difficult.

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Production Diary for "The Board"

Wish Craft are currently shooting their feature film The Board and the Writer / Director / Producer keeps us up to speed with this production diary which will be updated frequently.

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Shooting Super-16mm On A Low Budget

We've got a new article: Shooting Super-16mm On A Low Budget . Take a look at why you should still consider shooting on film in today's digital-centric world and how you can shoot on Super-16mm for less than £1,000. Read it here

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