During the NAB SuperMeet last April, vfx veterans Scott Ross and Scott Squire, gave a passionate, funny and highly informative speech about the state of VFX: why it is in the situation it is now, what is going to happen if things don't change and how things can/should change for a better worl ...
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Last February I shared a video of editor Eddie Hamilton talking at an Avid event about his career and how he worked his way through two drastically different editing experiences, Kick-Ass and X-Men First Class. A reader commented, wondering what was all the fuss about editors, since they seemed ...
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Last week, Miles Maker tweeted almost 200 great tips about how to deal with low to no budget filmmaking. This week, Maker's tweeted from another No-Budget Film School's event and shared priceless insights about the Art of Pitching during writer/director and USC teacher Janet Scott Batchler's t ...
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Strategist and consultant Louisa Heinrich gave a very informative thirty minute speech at the MIP Markets about The Most Shared Videos in 2013. Sure, we are only half-way through the said year, but when it comes to viral videos (or 'social videos', the new official term), 6 months means a ...
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If you've one of mentorless.com avid readers, you are aware of my admiration for Darren Aronofsky and his body of work. Discovering that two of the behind-the-scenes shot by Niko Tavernise were available online in their full version was pretty much like fast forwarding to Christmas 2013. T ...
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Making-of Voila - Picture by Ferhat Sen For this second and final part about Low to No Budget Filmmaking, Miles Maker, No-Budget Film School, Sean Baker and more participants gave great insights about: how to produce a low to no budget film how to hire a crew how to handle casting and ...
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'We are shooting a no-budget feature film.' We hear this sentence all the time, we say it ourselves, but what does it really mean? What is a no-budget film? Can you really say you made a movie for $0? What about food? post-production? parking? What about permits, insurance and SAG? What abou ...
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Martin McDonagh first directorial effort for a feature film didn't go unnoticed by film lovers, but very few interviews from his promotional tour for 'In Bruges' are available online. Fortunately, Gordon and The Whale recorded theirs (with a mac and an odd frame) and shared it. Until 2006, ...
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Perfume/Fashion ads have always been a lucrative and attractive business both for actors (see Keira Knightley, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johanson, Charlize Theron, Vincent Cassel, Brad Pitt etc.) and directors (see Scorsese, Aronofsky, David Lynch etc.) Unfortunately, few of them are memorabl ...
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TV shows don't have yet as much space as it I'd like them to on mentorless, but as Shows gets more and more ambitious and the line between 'Film Talents' and 'TV Talents' has almost faded away, quality content to understand how TV works, what makes a good Show and who are the people behind it a ...
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