by Joey Daoud | Oct 24, 2008 | Video Apps
Last month at TechCrunch 50 I was introduced to Five Sprockets. Their mission is to bring all the tools you’d need to write and manage a film online and for free. Good idea, yes, but I don’t think the execution is there yet. The main tools of the beta site...
by Joey Daoud | Jan 14, 2009 | Distribution, Exhibition, Film Business
Two articles from indieWIRE got me thinking this morning. The first is from the all too familiar Geoffrey Gilmore in ‘Evolution v. Revolution, The State of Independent Film & Festivals.’ A lot of it echoes Mark Gill’s much buzzed ‘The Sky...
by Joey Daoud | Feb 4, 2010 | Distribution
There’s a very cool video series up by Sabi Pictures with Filmmaker Magazine and Workbook Project. It’s a series incorporating interviews and discussions by a few filmmakers and producers from this past Sundance and poses questions, answers, and solutions ...
by Joey Daoud | Feb 13, 2010 | Cameras, Tips, Video Equipment
Filming a documentary in a robot workshop has its advantages, like a wide assortment of available tools and constant motivation to build something of your own. So I decided to take on the DIY dolly – the one with skateboard wheels on PVC pipe track – and...
by Joey Daoud | Mar 1, 2010 | Development, Tips
This is a precursor to a post I’m writing on how to figure out the true cost of a Kickstarter Project (using my recently posted project as an experiment). I was curious to see what funding levels got the most response, so I’d know which area to put the...