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Archive for July, 2007

Red Camera Impresses Soderbergh, Jackson and More

Posted by Emmet Gibney on July 25th, 2007

For those of you who have never heard of it, the Red camera is going to be a huge step for independent filmmakers. The quality of stuff you can (allegedly) produce with this camera is going to be “revolutionary”. I’m not skeptical, but I will wait to see for myself what the big […]

(A quick warning regarding this post, if you don’t have any experience with Final Cut Studio, this will probably be a little bit over your head. It’s basically a technical rant.)
Our office recently upgraded to Final Cut Studio 2 which has provided a few helpful additions, but they are mostly isolated to the new […]

On The Lot Down to Eight Contestants

Posted by Emmet Gibney on July 19th, 2007

After the last episode ‘On The Lot’ is now down to eight contestants.  They are:
Adam Stein
Andrew Hunt
Jason Epperson
Kenny Luby
Mateen Kemet
Sam Friedlander
Will Bigham
Zach Lipovsky
Now I’m guessing that they are probably going to continue knocking off two contestants at a time now, so that would mean that when I’m down there they will have 4 contestants remaining […]

Scary Cow Promotes Rodriguez’s Mantra “Make Films, Be Scary”

Posted by Emmet Gibney on July 11th, 2007

The website Filmmaking.com has a cool new feature on their website where they have partnered with YouTube to present only the best filmmaking content from YouTube on Filmmaking.com. I found a really cool video on their from Scary Cow that basically tries to get across the same message that Robert Rodriguez makes in his […]

I Got Invited to a Taping of “On The Lot”!!!

Posted by Emmet Gibney on July 10th, 2007

Well I suppose I have done something right with this blog, because today I was contacted by someone on behalf of “On The Lot” and asked to come down to Los Angeles (all expenses paid) to a taping of the show. I’m totally dumb founded! I don’t know all of the details yet, […]