Being successful in Microstock Footage game

My good friend Jake Hellbach wrote an excellent article on the Shutterstock forum about some of the keys to his success in the stock footage business, which you should definitely read.  Besides being extremely talented, Jake is a pretty modest guy.  He really doesn’t like to use the word “successful”, although I think he has [...]

Queen of Diamonds – Retrospect

Kyle is an amazing writer and the story he wrote is truly a gift to mankind.  And I’m totally serious.  Especially after watching Stephanie, Theodore and the rest of the cast give it life.  But he wrote a 20 minute film, not a 7 minute film.

Having now viewed the footage shot on my camera, I [...]

Queen of Diamonds – Day 2

The original plan was to use Vimeo or some other service to upload footage so that I could download it and work from home on my computer.  I don’t have a laptop and I haven’t gotten around to installing Adobe After Effects or any of my other tools on my fiance’s laptop yet.  So when [...]

48 Hour Film Festival – Queen of Diamonds

Well, that was a very exciting experience…

A few months ago, a friend on mine (Mark, aka IronStriker) was doing a lot of talking about indie films and it peaked my curiosity.  I’m not all that interested making my own indie film, but I have always been curious about the process and I love to learn [...]