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......Unhollywood is a site for alternative filmmaking outside the southern California studio system.
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......Find an actor at the AustinActors.net, a great organization founded by Brad Koester, PhD, and Nice Guy. Their site is attractive, well laid out, and has great resources. If you are an actor near Austin, a producer, or a filmmaker, this is a worthwhile site and organization to check out.
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......The Austin Film Resource is a website dedicated to local filmmakers here in Austin, helping them connect with other people and resources, including production announcements and job postings. They're acquiring articles for publications, so if you have an article, an idea, or know someone with writing skills, send email to Erick Opeka.
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......Austin Film Works is an Austin-based film and video production school founded by Steve Mims. I've taken his "Production One" class and had a blast, meeting lots of good people and shooting my first three shorts.
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......Story and character generator for those times when you have writer's block or want a chuckle.
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......Claiming to be the ''Movie School Encyclopedia,'' this website has a good collection of links. If you haven't had enough links here at Mopac Media, head over to CyberFilmSchool and comb their links!
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......Global DVC is a site for DV related news created by Jan van der Meer from the Netherlands. Sometimes news items published are rumors and for products, but usually they let you know that information is unofficial.
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......Filmmaker.com has got to be the definitive site on the subject of filmmaking, with a name like that, eh?
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......Here's a site that lets you create html code to embed video into your website. This is really cool, doesn't have any adware or spyware crap in it, it's totally free and even gives you the option of supporting their site or not. Awesome!
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......The Eejit's Guide to Filmmaking is a tongue-in-cheek site that explains in layman's terms how to make a film. A great site for the light side of the technical and creative stuff.
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......For independent filmmaking west of the Mississippi, check out Indie Slate, a bi-monthly publication. Full of articles, events, and production notices, it's a good reference for anyone working in the film industry or wanting to break in.
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......A site dedicated to the independent filmmaker. Guides and links to market resources, distributors, books, forums and other filmmaker resources makes this a website useful for people actually making movies.
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......Kemps Film and Television production services online handbook appears to be a good resource for international production services and companies.
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......Like A Story is part of the Make-Up Artist Web Ring and has a great section of links to Special Effects forums and other filmmaker boards.
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......Got a budget? Find an actor at Casting Works LA, located in the fabulous 501 complex of Austin.
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......Production Tips is a useful website for your filmmaking needs and questions.
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......Movie Cost Breakdown, a great reference article for comparing costs between 16mm and 35mm film versus various digital video scenarios. Also gives you an idea of what to budget for your movie.
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......Pro8mm Film fortunately still sells great film stock. Supposedly, they take 16mm stock and cut it down to 8mm, so it's pricey but you get a good choice of professional film stock. I think they used to be called Super8Sound.
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......Ned Miller's Production Resources is useful for the directories, if you're planning a shoot in some other part of the country and need to contact a local there to help out.
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......Scott's website has plenty of articles and videos to keep you entertained and knowledged up. Wanna learn about Chinese Lanterns? Wanna be the best Production Assistant you can be? Wanna know about location scouting? It's all here and more.
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......A studio nestled in the hill country of Texas, near Wimberly. There are some great tips on interviewing, lighting, sound and other aspects of filmmaking. Rodger Marion is a nice guy and very helpful.
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......Interesting articles on this one by a group of southern California filmmakers.
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......If you want to do claymation or stop motion animation with inanimate objects (or patient animate objects!) then take a look at Stop Motion Pro software. Unfortunately, only for Windows -- I'm still looking for Macintosh software so if you know of anything that can record single frames via firewire for the Mac, please let me know -- thanks!
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......The Stupendous Site of Filmmaking is a quirky artistic site for storytelling and special effects.
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......Texas, in its wisdom, has allowed video producers to buy equipment and supplies without paying sales tax as long as that equipment or supplies is used in the product of material that is later resold.
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......The Texas Film Commission serves the filmmaking community in Texas, mostly the studios since they're main purpose is to bring more production money to the state, but they also have an independent spirit and provide some services for no/low-budget productions, especially location scouting.
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......An online Production Manual and Production Hotline is maintained by The Texas Film Commission.
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......The NATPE Report for Texas Film and Video News convers the convergence of television and new media.
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