The blog for aspiring & established filmmakers of independent films. by ted hope.

It Does Keep Getting Better And Better

The evidence is out there. The future is less painful than the present. Our tools keep improving. Access too. Thus opportunity. Wasn’t it less than a year ago that we hadn’t seen all that a DSLR camera can do? Evidently, REVERIE was the first 1080p video widely released that was shot with the Canon 5D MKII. I am sure that the millions of folks who have now watched it weren’t all filmmakers, but still you can feel the excitement of watching it for the first time and recognizing what you can do with these cameras. They’ve already made films I am involved in better.

Reverie from Vincent Laforet on Vimeo.

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Hope offers his unique perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art while staying true to yourself.

Meet Ted

Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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