{"id":631,"date":"2014-01-13T18:08:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T02:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/?p=631"},"modified":"2016-07-06T12:59:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T19:59:52","slug":"linktresting-stuff-worth-reading-new-years-blues-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"Linktresting: Stuff Worth Reading (New Year&#8217;s Blues Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you&#8217;ve not been hit by the post-Christmas season blues quite as hard as I have but, if you have, here are a few things to read or watch to take you&#8217;re mind off how short the days are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-227\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chain.jpg?resize=300%2C164\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chain.jpg?resize=300%2C164&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chain.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/1af3lBm\" target=\"_blank\">More Movies at Sundance Are Sidestepping the Big Screen<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; article from the NYT:<br \/>\n&#8220;<em>Agents say that digital sales are starting to make up the slack at Sundance. [&#8230;]\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><em>But most filmmakers have a more pessimistic view of digital distribution, saying that the money from those deals does not routinely reach them.<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfield.org\/2014\/01\/the-field-recordist-film\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018The Field Recordist\u2019 Film<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; weirdly introverted, unfinished short that bills itself as an &#8216;autobiographical film&#8217;. I&#8217;m not sure that the autobiographical genre is about to explode, and yet I found this oddly compelling.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2014\/01\/how-cinematographer-hoyte-van-hoytema-made-her-beautiful\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema Made &#8216;Her&#8217; Beautiful<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; gotta love me some cinematography<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/otranscribe-is-a-free-keyboard-friendly-transcription-1498812713\" target=\"_blank\">Transcribe is a Free, Keyboard-Friendly Transcription Tool<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; if, like me, you have to transcribe interviews for your producers after 1st assembly, this tool might be useful to both of us.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/make-a-cheap-diy-solar-filter-for-dslr-cameras-1498814415\" target=\"_blank\">Make a Cheap DIY Solar Filter for DSLR Cameras<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; not something you&#8217;ll need often, but it you ever need to film the sun, or an eclipse, for any reason, at least you&#8217;ll now know how.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2014\/01\/scorsese-says-cinema-has-a-bright-future-heres-why\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scorsese Says Cinema Has a Bright Future, Here&#8217;s Why<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; of course, it&#8217;s easy for him to say: he&#8217;s fff-ing Martin ff-ing Scorsese. Still, worth reading.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filmflap.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/thinking-about-simple-web-based.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thinking about Simple, Web-Based Storytelling<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackandblue.com\/2014\/01\/09\/basic-steadicam-positions\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Basic Steadicam Positions<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; not the karmasutra for camera men, as I first thought, but interesting nonetheless.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingprofs.com\/articles\/2014\/24085\/five-big-social-media-trends-for-2014\" target=\"_blank\">Five Big Social Media Trends for 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcocreate.com\/1683167\/how-to-be-prolific-guidelines-for-getting-it-done-from-joss-whedon\" target=\"_blank\">How To Be Prolific: Guidelines for Getting It Done from Joss Whedon<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; it&#8217;s no secret that I want to be Mr Whedon &#8211; failing that, I guess I could try and work like him. Then again, he&#8217;s so far ahead of me, what&#8217;s the point? Maybe I&#8217;ll just eat a Twinkie and read about how he get&#8217;s it done. You should too &#8211; great article from Fast Company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you&#8217;ve not been hit by the post-Christmas season blues quite as hard as I have but, if you have, here are a few things to read or watch to take you&#8217;re mind off how short the days are: More Movies at Sundance Are Sidestepping the Big Screen\u00a0&#8211; article from the NYT: &#8220;Agents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Linktresting: Stuff Worth Reading (New Year's Blues Edition) #filmmaking","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chain.jpg?fit=1000%2C547&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wVJR-ab","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporateguerrillavideo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}