Gary Winick’s Contribution Should Be Remembered
March, 01, 2011 2:18 pm | Comments On #Gary Winick, MoviesFilm students looking for inspiration from the heyday of independent film are likely to fixate on Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Spike Lee, and Michael Moore, but the shining light they should not overlook or ever forget is the little train that could -- and did -- Gary Winick.
His later, most well-known films were not particularly groundbreaking -- "Charlotte’s Web" was a live-action remake, "13 Going On 30" was an update of "Freaky Friday," and "Tadpole" was something of a mash-up of "Rushmore" and "The Graduate" -- but as far as indie street cred and “keeping it real” in the independent film world was concerned, Winick was both an innovator and a giant.
He was groundbreaking in codifying the long-promised but rarely realized business model of offering gross...
Read MoreCan the Internet Save Indie Film?
February, 21, 2010 10:06 pm | Comments On #Movies, Reed MartinEditors Note: This blog post originally appeared on YouTube's Biz Blog.
YouTube’s new rentals service, which launched by offering five Sundance films for $3.99 each, drew just over a thousand paying customers nationally – not enough to shift traditional film distribution paradigms or overshadow Steve Jobs – but this humble beginning masks the opportunity for YouTube and for today’s aspiring independent screenwriters, directors and producers. Just as text blogging gave unaffiliated writers new ways to connect to large audiences and even shape the national discourse, new avenues for distributing and consuming full-length independent films will now give anyone with the talent and drive to make movies, a viable and well-trafficked platform for getting...
Read MoreExperts’ Advice for Aspiring Filmmakers
October, 26, 2009 5:37 pm | Comments On #Alexander Payne, danny boyle, Darren Aronofsky, Lawrence Bender, Neil LaButeDirector, “Slumdog Millionaire”
“After we made '28 Days Later,' people would come up and ask, ‘How do you scare people in a movie? Give me three ways.’ And I would say ‘Sound, sound, and sound.’ Sound is the thing that really ‘sells the blow’ every time. Sometimes in the edit or in a screening you raise the sound up a bit in the mix and certain scenes are unwatchable. People will turn away because the sound amplifies the reality of the image. But if you watch it with the sound off, it’s no problem and they’re not fazed by whatever you show them.
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Reed Martin is a former Harvard Business School research associate and author of the film production guide, “The Reel Truth: Everything You Didn’t Know You Need to Know About Making an Independent Film.”
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