Everyone loves a movie; and people who make movies love making movies about people making movies. Self referential humor has become a cultural norm. The humor derived from most of these movies is either about how insane it is to make a movie, or how insane or ridiculous the people are who decide to make […]

Zach Braff wanted to make a sequel to “Garden State”. He decided to raise money via Crowfunding site Kickstarter. The goal of the campaign was $2 million. And at last count, they had raised $2.47 million. Some people have criticized Braff for doing this, since he’s already famous and has plenty of industry connections. Isn’t […]

I received an interesting and aggressive comment today, as I sometimes do from film students who become defensive against what I am saying. This film student started out attacking the validity of what I am saying on the site and then went on to prove my point. I have responded to each point below. Um… […]

I get a lot of emails from high school students asking for advice. The reality is that your high school’s A/V program is advanced as any film schools’. Seriously. In the old days, yes, a big name school might need $70,000 to buy a quality camera. But if your high school has any HD Panasonic […]