Four things you must include in your indie film budget

 Posted on: Monday, April 20th, 2009
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Every DIY indie film project wants to cut production costs and get everything for free. However, sometimes, free is too expensive: you pay for it with poor quality, flaky team-members and film that is not watchable (or really expensive to fix in post). I’m a cheapskate by nature (what DIY filmmaker isn’t?) but some things you need to find the money to do right.

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Three smart DIY filmmaking ideas

 Posted on: Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
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IndieGoGo’s blog has a helpful interview with Eric Ernst and Danny Daneau of The Attic Door (which is showing at the Florida Film fest). These are the three great ideas I got out of the interview: – Hire a small documentary crew to follow you around during production (and before/after) and have them create webisodes to stoke interest in the film

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Storybids Connects Content Creators with Advertisers

 Posted on: Friday, January 2nd, 2009
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Storybids is an interesting site that looks to give content creators a link to the product placement marketplace. Storybids provides an outlet for auctioning online content to advertisers to include their products in online video content. Their tool provides an option for filmmakers/content creators to off-set production costs and even make a profit on their

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