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This is footage shot with a Canon EF 50mm prime lens on a Canon t3i using the Cinestyle profile, color graded with Magic Bullet Looks.

The above shot is straight out of the camera.

Troma launches “Z movie” subscription channel

Troma Entertainment, the independent film production company known for shock exploitation films like The Toxic Avenger and Mother’s Day, launched a subscription video channel with VHX. For just $5 a month, fans can now watch all the farcical 1950’s-style horror, comedy, sci-fi, and zombie genre films you’d ever want. 

Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz started Troma in 1974, making their name with all kinds of low budget fan-favorites, before their breakout hit The Toxic Avenger in 1985. 

We’re so excited to help Troma bring their large library to a wide digital audience! These legendary filmmakers are responsible for a whole pile of iconic indie films, the TromaDance Festival, and a highly engaged YouTube audience. Now you can subscribe and watch them all on Troma Now. (And die-hard fans can watch rare finds like the elusive EDGE TV.) 

Try it out for a month free: http://watch.troma.com/

We’ve talked about a lot about video marketing in past, but today we will discuss the scope of Video marketing in 2016.

Almost 80% of the world’s population has access to view a video and approximately every one can watch a video using different channels like T.V, Mobile etc.

Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.

Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.

Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening

Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.

Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.

Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.

Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.

Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.

Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.

Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.

Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.

Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.

Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.

Watch a free movie each week with Kartemquin Films

For their 50th anniversary, Kartemquin Films is doing something pretty special: Every week in 2016 they’re streaming a different film from their archives. Free! Keep your eyes peeled for iconic documentaries like Hoop Dreams, The New Americans, and The Interrupters. They’re even throwing in extra content and filmmaker conversations to pair with these amazing titles. 

We’re thrilled to power this deep dive into the Kartemquin archives — you can own these titles as well, sold directly from their website. Happy anniversary, Kartemquin!

It’s a little known fact that Coppola kick started his career with porn. This was his first legitimate feature. 

She was a cult muse, Elvis’s girlfriend and the ultimate badass. RIP, Tura Satana. 

The significance of sound design must be on par with the visual quality. Sound can help create iconoclastic images that subtly penetrate the viewer’s mind. Sound that contrasts the visual creates tension while re-enforcing sound puts the audience at ease. In other words, sound tends to amplify what’s already held within the image.

Just as it’s important for a director of Minor Cinema to understand visual composition and lighting, it’s important for them to understand sound design in order to convincingly frame a scene.

Don’t do anything that somebody else, that you know deep in your heart, somebody else can do better, but do what nobody else can do except for you, Wim Wenders shares to artists and filmmakers on nurturing your personal artistic voice. Sound advice to fuel the creative soul, and with Wenders, there is so much more to absorb. As inspiring as Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Rules to Filmmaking, Wenders offers his own insight on how to achieve cinematic timelessness with our own films. So let’s take this journey with a director who has been and continues to be celebrated for his poetic achievements in film…follow Wim Wenders’ Rules of Cinema Perfection with Wim Wenders’ Golden Rules to Filmmaking, 50 insightful approaches to making films via Moviemaker along with stills from the director’s masterpiece Wings of Desire.

1) You have a choice of being “in the business” or of making movies. If you’d rather do business, don’t hesitate. You’ll get richer, but you won’t have as much fun!

2) If you have nothing to say, don’t feel obliged to pretend you do.

3) If you do have something to say, you’d better stick to it (but then don’t give too many interviews).

4) Respect your actors. Their job is 10 times more dangerous than yours.

5) Don’t look at the monitor. Watch the faces in front of your camera! Stand right next to it! You’ll see infinitely more. You can still check your monitor after the take.

6) Your continuity girl is always right about screen directions, jumping the axis, and that sort of stuff. Don’t fight her. Bring her flowers.

7) Always remember: Continuity is overrated!

8) Coverage is overrated, too!

9) If you want to shoot day for night, make sure the sun is shining.

10) Before you say “cut,” wait five more seconds.

11) Rain only shows on the screen when you backlight it.

12) Don’t shoot a western if you hate horses (but it’s okay to not be fond of cows).

13) Think twice before you write a scene with babies or infants.

14) Never expect dogs, cats, birds, or any other animals to do what you’d like them to do. Keep your shots loose.

15) Mistakes never get fixed in post!

16) Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

17) Other people have great ideas, too.

18) The more money you have, the more you can do with it, sure. But the less you can say with it.

19) Never fall in love with your temp music.

20) Never fall in love with your leading lady!

21) If you love soccer, don’t shoot your film during the World Championship (same goes for baseball and the World Series, etc.).

22) Don’t quote other movies unless you have to (but why would you have to?).

23) Let other people cut your trailer!

24) It’s always good to make up for a lack of (financial) means with an increase in imagination.

25) Having a tight schedule can be difficult. But having too much time is worse.

26) Alright, so you’re shooting with a storyboard. Make sure you’re willing to override it at any given moment.

27) Less make-up is better.

28) Fewer words are always better!

29) Too much sugary stuff on the craft table (or is it Kraft?) can have a disastrous effect on your crew’s morale.

30) Film can reveal the invisible, but you must be willing to let it show.

31) The more you know about moviemaking, the tougher it gets to leave that knowledge behind. As soon as you do things “because you know how to do them,” you’re fucked.

32) Don’t tell a story that you think somebody else could tell better.

33) A “beautiful image” can very well be the worst thing that can happen to a scene.

34) If you have one actor who gets better with every take, and another who loses it after a while, make sure they can meet in the middle. Or consider recasting (and you know whose close-ups you have to shoot first!).

35) If you shoot in a dark alley at night, don’t let your DP impose a bright blue contre-jour spotlight on you, even in the far distance. It always looks corny.

36) Some actors should never see rushes. Others should be forced to watch them.

37) Be ready to get rid of your favorite shot during editing.

38) Why would you sit in your trailer while your crew is working?

39) Don’t let them lay tracks before you’ve actually looked through your viewfinder.

40) You need a good title from the beginning. Don’t shoot the film with a working title you hate!

41) In general, it’s better not to employ couples (but of course, there are exceptions!).

42) Don’t adapt novels.

43) If your dolly grip is grumpy or your electricians hate the shot, it will all show on the film (also, if you’re constipated…).

44) Keep your rough cut speech, your cast and crew screening speech, and your Oscar speech short.

45) Some actors actually improve their dialogue in ADR.

46) Some actors should never be forced to loop a single line (even Orson Welles wasn’t good at that).

47) There are 10,000 other rules like these 50.

48) If there are golden rules, there might be platinum ones, too.

49) There are no rules.

50) None of the above is necessarily correct.

BREAKING NEWS: Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi will be at the helm of the 2016 Godzilla movie.