Announcing Texas Film Friday showcase
I’m very proud to be a part of the Texas Film Friday, a joint effort between a handful of local Austin filmmakers to empower indie filmmakers. Check it out: http://texasfilmfriday.com/ Continue Reading →
Author: val
Using My Celtx Mod to Production Notes / Generic.xhtml
I recently went back to add some more fields to my Celtx.jar file, so I figured I’d take a more in-depth look some of the more important fields I’ve added Continue Reading →
How bad can Socialism get?
I just finished listening to an interview with a Portuguese priest, on the state of the country. It’s very sad, but strangely similar to what we have here in the Continue Reading →
My Post-Production Workflow {Austin, Texas filmmaker}
If you’ve already read my article on what I learned from shooting Sunset in McDade, my digital workflow comes from some of those lessons. This article starts before post-production to Continue Reading →
America more and more like Europe
WARNING: socio-political commentary coming I was just reading this today, and thought it was worth sharing. I had 2 realizations while reading this, that don’t necessarily appear in the written Continue Reading →
More Free VSTi and Halloweend Sound Effects
Just came across these today, and thought I’d share them. First, we start with another plugin from Mildon Studios, Otobongo (read auto-bongo) which is a vst instrument to emulate a Continue Reading →
More things I learned from Shooting Sunset in McDade
So… the lessons keep coming, and I owe them to the wonderful crew that worked on it with me. You can see who those folks were, right here: sunsetinmcdade.idealsceneproductions.com/crew/ Here Continue Reading →
Finished shooting principal photography on short film Sunset in McDade
Well, shooting the short film Sunset in McDade was an unforgettable experience! And things aren’t over yet! For those of you who haven’t followed this journey, this is the very Continue Reading →
Free Drum Loop Collection by Kent Sandvik
Here’s another very cool find. This is the Kent Loop Collection Vol 4 – Battery Drum Loops. From Kent’s site: ” This contains 50 loops made with NI’s Battery 4 Continue Reading →
Free Samples and Soundfonts for Mac and PC
In my endless search for cool and cheap/free sounds to complement my composing library (for scoring my own films), I stumbled upon this cool website, bedroomproducersblog.com, and they had an Continue Reading →