film | technology | life
Posted in Cool Sites, Film on Aug 27th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get my latest posts directly in your mailbox. Thanks for coming to the Foo!
A dutch blogger has an interesting project describing how he made a bluescreen himself. Or a greenscreen.
Related postsFun with the Sound DepartmentThe world’s scariest camera?Polaroid funFinancial realities [...]
Posted in Cool Sites, Film on Jun 26th, 2008
For the financially challed film producer, Good Music often is out of reach. There are many so-so sources for CDs full of royalty free music (we own a huge library of those and hardly ever use it - unless we need something cheesy).
Then there are places where you can preview and download music for a [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Film, Life, Technology on Feb 29th, 2008
As a follow up on my last post on the costs of licensing Blu-Ray, I sent a little e-mail to Larry Jordan to confirm that small production runs of Blu-Ray discs are prohibitively expensive. Larry replied that it seems indeed that Sony does not want independent producers to embrace this delivery format.
So, most likely you will not see [...]
Posted in Film, Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
Mike Flynn has a very interesting post on the costs associated with producing content on Blu-Ray:
[P]roducers of industrial and non-broadcast content are required to pay a $2,500 licensing fee to author and distribute Blu-Ray. Then, each producer is required to pay a $3,000 one-time AACS license fee, plus a per-title fee for EACH replicated Blu-Ray [...]