Filmmakers love gravity. Filmmakers love heights. Filmmakers love fear. The list goes on. Is it any wonder we’ve fallen in love with the fall? Take the leap. See how it is done. Determine how you will do it differently.
Gravity: A Falling Montage from Plot Point Productions on Vimeo.
By Reid Rosefelt
When I was a teenager growing up in a tiny Wisconsin town, Chicago was the Big City, and The Art Institute was the only major museum I had been to in my life. My favorite gallery there was the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection. I could gaze at the huge canvas of Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,” as well as Toulouse-Lautrec’s “At the Moulin Rouge,” van Gogh’s “The Room,” and many others by such masters as Gauguin, Rousseau, Modigliani, Cézanne, and Matisse. For me, these paintings were celebrities. Being in the room with them was as thrilling as being in the same room with Bob Dylan or Jack Nicholson.
Despite all the riches, I found myself drawn to a single painting: Picasso’s “The Old Guitarist” an iconic image from his Blue Period. I loved the painting, but my real fascination was with something hidden underneath it. Behind the old man’s blue head I could see the face of a beautiful woman, her lips resting behind his ear, her neck flowing out from the Platysma muscle in his neck, and her ghostly eyes burning into my own.
By Annelise Larson
All hail the power of search! If you have read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series I hope I have made you a true believer and helped you understand why it is critical to be search friendly. Now here are 10 search engine optimization tips to help you walk the SEO walk:
#1 – Get problematic technology out of the way.
Technologies like Flash, JavaScript, splash pages, redirects and even too many images instead of text can cause HUGE problems for search friendliness. They can get in the way of the search engines understanding what your site is about, which still lies predominantly in the visible text on the page. Find a balance between the wow and the words.
#2 – Leverage tags.
Here are some of the places you can include keywords from your research:
HTML title tag (Appears in your page programming, the top of browsers and is the title seen in search results. Make it intriguing to human searchers but also include keywords reflective of the content on your page.)
Meta description tag (Appears in search engine listings as the description for your page. Allows you to control your branding, but doesn’t help improve search performance.)
Video & image titles (Visible titles for your video and image assets can include important keywords to help with findability in search, but they need to be relevant.)
It’s not where I care to hang, but I do dig both the style of animation and the mood and tone Joseph Pierce captured. Very well done piece.
The Pub from Joseph Pierce on Vimeo.
One year ago today, I gave this speech.
I don’t think we can get a clearer marker that times have fully changed in the Film Biz than James Schamus leaving Focus Features. And this is a curve that is not in a positive direction.
With his bow tie no longer the Focus brand, we can firmly say that the corporate suits see no business in art. James made money from beauty, found gold by reaching higher,
If you have half a brain and STILL want to invest in the film business, you know you need access to one thing: quality projects. But how do you get that? The truth is that accessing quality projects is a barrier to entry for any but those of the deepest pockets. Sooner or later most wise investors realize that are shut out of the top projects and their only chance of success is dumb luck. If we want to develop a sustainable investor class, we need to develop a method for them to participate in true quality.
If new financiers don’t find the quality projects, chances are they won’t last. How is the industry to sustain, let alone grow and evolve if it is just the same old same old? We need a plan to
