by Joey Daoud | Oct 26, 2008 | Marketing, Movies
Movie posters are the main visual representation you have to get someone to see your movie. Most are safe. Some, however, push beyond a simple advertisement to a work of art. These are 20 posters that dare to be different, all from films released in the past year or...
by Joey Daoud | Jul 15, 2008 | Documentary, Film Business
Below are my notes from the one panel I attended at Full Frame – The State of the Doc. It’s a little more cheerful than Mark Gill’s outlook on independent cinema, though re-reading this now, some panelists seemed to be predicting what was going to...
by Joey Daoud | Jul 8, 2008 | Career, Video Apps
With graduation looming closer and more people asking me what I want to do, I need to come up with a more concrete answer. Director or produce? Fiction or documentary? With the way the summer’s been going, I’m leaning towards producing. As for fiction and...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 5, 2008 | Documentary
Out in the middle of the Mojave desert at Ft. Irwin, California, is a billion dollar mock Iraq village in an Army training center, filled with Iraqi roll players. Before units are deployed to Iraq, they come here for three weeks to simulate what they will encounter in...
by Joey Daoud | May 5, 2008 | Film Festival
It’s a film about body building, Hulk Hogan, steroids, Sylvester Stallone, and the male image in America. Yes, men have image problems too, Jean Kilbourne. The steroids part was what got me into the the theater, after experiencing the magic ((By magic, I mean...
