Last week not only were we making our own lists, we made others’ lists. Twice we discovered we made lists of appreciation in the film community. We are thankful folks find our posts and tweets useful. And we are pleased that such lists are made as they are helpful in discovering great information and people.
- Shakedown Film’ “Our Top 10 Filmmaking Websites“
- Filmmaking Stuff’s “20 Filmmaking Thought Leaders To Follow On Twitter” (granted this dated back to January but I had missed it)
- Indiewire’s “7 Tips For Filmmakers From SXSW: Words Of Wisdom From Lena Dunham, Dana Brunetti, Casey Neistadt, Ted Hope, & Jason Blum“
Thanks for including us!
You’re posting interesting content on Twitter every day. You’re blogging. You’re active in other social networks. You’re doing everything that you’ve been told to do. But you’re getting nowhere.
Casting is one of the obvious essentials of any film, and like all aspects of the process worth examining: the assumptions that define it and the possibilities of how it might be used to best advantage. Casting’s key place comes in financing, where attaching the right star allows raising money based on their monetary value to specific regions or demographics. Enough attached stars offer the promise of pre-sales in distribution, and enough pre-sales can then determine a base budget. This would seem to follow the simple logic of a star’s popularity guaranteeing viewers, a shortcut in the task of finding an audience. 