Naked Filmmaking

Digital Convergence Podcast Talks “Naked Filmmaking”

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Digital Convergence Podcast Talks “Naked Filmmaking”

I’ve been listening to the Digital Convergence Posdcast for two years now. The podcast consists of host Carl Olson, a photographer and DSLR filmmaker based in Atlanta, Georgia; Mitch Aunger, also known as “Planet Mitch” for his premiere DSLR website Planet5D, based in my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri; and Chris Fenwick, a freelance editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area who maintains a great site filled with life-saving editing tutorials. It’s a great hour-long podcast, that usually runs to an hour and fifteen minutes of so, and consists of Carl, Mitch and Chris discussing the latest styles...

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“Breaking Into TV News”–All Done! And Two Weeks Of Vacation

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“Breaking Into TV News”–All Done! And Two Weeks Of Vacation

I can’t remember when, if ever, I’ve taken two weeks off and didn’t go any place. Believe this is now referred to as a “Stay-cation.” The time off was necessary because I’d built up so much time at work that if I didn’t use it, I would lose it. Hmm. . . . Whattaya gonna do? The first few days were spent putting the finishing touches on the Kindle Edition of the new book Breaking Into TV News – How To Get A Job & Excel As A TV Reporter-Photographer. Making a Kindle version of your book is extremely...

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How Much HD Do We Need?

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How Much HD Do We Need?

  Over the past few months, since the announcements of the new RED Epic and Scarlet and the Canon C300digital cinema cameras, and now with all the buzz about the 2K Digital Bolex, various people have asked me (and this is an amalgam of these conversations): “So, Mike, which one are you going to get? The Canon or the RED Scarlet?” “Neither. I’m sticking with my Canon 7D?” “Huh? But don’t you want the raw 4:4:4 files?” “What for?” “So your picture looks great up on a big screen.” “Nobody’s going to be throwing my films up on the...

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National Podcast Sends A Shout Out To Naked Filmmaking

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National Podcast Sends A Shout Out To Naked Filmmaking

I’m a podcast junky. The frustrating thing about listening to the radio in the car is that, invariably, as soon as the program gets to something good that I really want to hear, I’ve gotten to where I was driving and I have to get out of the car. Now I download the podcasts of all the shows I’m addicted to. These come in great when I’m walking the dogs, Alex and Ava & our guest foster boy Tanner, in the morning. One show I listen to every week is The Digital Convergence Podcast. It’s a filmmaking site that focuses...

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Jimmy Ennett – Australian Naked Filmmaker

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Jimmy Ennett – Australian Naked Filmmaker

A few months ago I was reviewing my Youtube account and saw a mile of comments left on my videos. A few of them were from a young filmmaker in Australia named Jimmy Ennett who said that he was a one-man filmmaker, too, and that he’d even bought my book Naked Filmmaking. This was very personally uplifting for me to learn that not only was Naked Filmmaking reaching beyond U.S. borders, but that it was also spreading out into new hemispheres. I quickly sent this young compatriot a thank you e-mail and we began corresponding. I wanted to know...

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Naked Filmmaking – Now Part of the Kindle Lending Library

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Naked Filmmaking – Now Part of the Kindle Lending Library

Naked Filmmaking is now a part of the newly introduced Amazon Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. This should allow more people the opportunity to try the book out than would have before. And I believe that once you try the book, you’ll get the desire and the confidence to want to make your own film — in which case you’ll want to purchase the book to have it with you all the time, on your laptop, on your iPhone, on your Android, where ever you go. So check out the Kindle Library — and check out Naked Filmmaking.

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Price Reduction – Get Naked For The Holidays!

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Price Reduction – Get Naked For The Holidays!

I’ve just reduced the price of my book Naked Filmmaking from $16.95 to $14.95 in softcover and from $9.99 to $7.99 in the Kindle ebook edition to make it easier to purchase through the end of the year. I’ve been very grateful to everyone who has purchased my book over the past eighteen months that it has been available on Amazon and for the notes and feedback that I’ve received from the people across the country, as well as from the U.K. and Australia. If you’ve been on the fence about whether to give the book a try, now...

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HAPPY 2011 & WELCOME NEW NAKED FILMMAKERS!

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HAPPY 2011 & WELCOME NEW NAKED FILMMAKERS!

I haven’t posted anything in a several weeks. My apologies for that. One of my New Year’s resolutions is to add new posts every few days. Firstly, I want to welcome all the new and aspiring naked filmmakers out there! Ever since my book Naked Filmmaking: How To Make A Feature Film – Without A Crew – For $10,000 Or Less was published last March it has been selling a small but steady number of copies every month. However, starting around the middle of November, with the lead up to Christmas, that started to change dramatically. Over the past...

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San Joaquin Delta College Gets Naked

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San Joaquin Delta College Gets Naked

My book Naked Filmmaking is now being used in a way that I never expected — in the classroom. The Radio-Television-Film-Multimedia Department at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California, is suggesting it as worth reading to their film students. Several blog posts back at the beginning of summer, I told about participating at MediaFest 2010 at San Joaquin Delta and participated in a panel discussion on careers in film and television and the future of filmmaking, where I met media instructor Will Story. Will bought several copies of Naked Filmmaking and asked me to speak to the media...

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Kindle Gets Naked!

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Kindle Gets Naked!

Naked Filmmaking is available now as an Amazon Kindle ebook. I’ve been hearing about ebooks and the Kindle for a while but didn’t think it was very cost practicle. At $300-$400 dollars for something that your could read a book on it just sounded like another expensive tech toy. Then when Amazon announced a month or so ago that ebook sales had surpassed sales of hardcover books I suddenly took notice. My attention was cemented the following week when Amazon introduced their new series of new and improved Kindles starting at only $130 that can hold 2,000 books. On...

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