Posts Tagged ‘ Naked Filmmaking ’

“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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Digital Convergence Podcast — Shout Out About “Breaking Into TV News”

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Digital Convergence Podcast — Shout Out About “Breaking Into TV News”

A few weeks ago I posted about walking my dogs and listening to my favorite podcast — The Digital Convergence Podcast, about DSLR cameras and digital editing — and hearing the host Carl Olson read an e-mail that I’d sent and put a plug in for Naked Filmmaking: How To Make A Feature-Length Film – Without A Crew – For $10,000 Or Less. This afternoon I was driving on assignment for KCRA and listening to this week’s podcast — Episode #68 — when half-way through it Carl Olson made a reference to the new book Breaking Into TV News...

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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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“Nightbeats” To Play in Method Fest Film Festival, LA!

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“Nightbeats” To Play in Method Fest Film Festival, LA!

Nightbeats will premiere in Los Angeles in The Method Fest Film Festival on Saturday, March 27 at 9:15 PM. From the time that Bonnie and I set out to make this movie I wanted it to be performance-driven. That we have been accepted into a festival that celebrates acting is a victory for the film. Bonnie and I will be getting to Calabasas on Friday, March 26, to begin promoting the movie and checking out the other films. One of my best pals, Chris King (watermarkfilms.net) played his first feature Touching Down at Method Fest a few years ago...

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