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BBC has launched New Music Shorts 2007

Jack — Thu, 17 May 2007 08:37:10 -0500

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.

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

Jack — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:28:31 -0500

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?

Creating A Press Kit

Zara — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:20:36 -0500

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.

Creating a Press Kit

elliot — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 07:12:32 -0500

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.

"The Board" start shooting today

Jack — Mon, 15 May 2006 03:24:37 -0500

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

Getting Ideas

elliot — Fri, 05 May 2006 04:06:33 -0500

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.

Production Diary for "The Board"

Wish Craft — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:55:03 -0500

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.

Shooting Super-16mm On A Low Budget

Jack — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 08:49:21 -0500

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

Shooting Super-16mm On A Low Budget

Jack — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 05:32:52 -0500

This article will first look at some of the reasons why you might want to shoot on film and will then go on to consider how to shoot on super-16mm for the least amount of money.

The New Horizons of UK Film Finance, a Life Jacket for the UK Film Industry?

Annie — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:50:36 -0600

When the Chancellor announced the Pre-Budget report last December, the film industry could breath a great sigh of relief. Following the ambiguity which ensued after the announced cull of section 42 and 48 relief, an uneasy few months resulted which witnessed a slew of production companies including several Hollywood productions being pulled from the UK.