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Preparing Your Audience for a Short Film
Way back in 1999, a Salon.com article titled “Short Attention Span Theater” predicted the Internet’s evolution as the perfect breeding ground for short films. In 2008, a blog post titled “Online Videos – and Our Attention Spans – Get Longer” was published on the New York Times’ website. While the first article was correct in [...]
Collaboration – Christian Video Magazine – March 2010
Three weeks before the video shoot for the 2010 Believe Tour (http://www.ciy.com/believe) there were a host of production problems to be solved, creative decisions to be made, and time was working against us. Were we going to have clear weather for our helicopter shot of Eric Timm (http://www.nooneunderground.com) painting on the roof of a warehouse? [...]
Halfway There – 36 Parables Newsletter – February 2010
Many of you have been with 36 Parables since 2005, when we released our first film, Found. The January 2010 release of 36 Parables’ Lime DVD marks the official halfway point of our original vision; 18 of the planned 36 Parables are completed. We are thrilled to see 36 Parables made it this far, and [...]
Signal-to-Noise Ratio – Christian Video Magazine – January 2010
My senior year of high school I shot and directed my first short film, Tribes: a post-apocalyptic tale concerning two warring factions of teenagers. The film contained some inspired camera work and a great story, but the audio was awful. When I reviewed the footage I could barely hear the actor’s voices over the acoustic [...]
Community – 36 Parables Monthly Newsletter – December 2009
And who is my neighbor? This is possibly the most important question asked of Jesus during His life on Earth. And the answer Jesus gives in The Parable of the Good Samaritan is equally significant. Jesus shifts the emphasis of the question from generating criteria by which you determine who is and who is not [...]
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Back to the Basics – Christian Video Magazine – August 2010