Iver Heath Cricket Club was formed in 1947 by a bunch of alcoholics looking for something to do when the pubs used to shut on a Sunday afternoon. Sixty four years on and we’re still boozing!
We’re looking for new players to join our Sunday social cricket team.
Everyone is talking about Dynamo Player at the moment. Chris Jones, author of The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook, recently described Dynamo as being “more important than YouTube“.
Dynamo Player is seen by many as the missing link in the distribution chain for the low budget independent film maker. It allows you to embed your film on any web page and to make money. Chris covers it pretty well in his blog post above as do the guys at Dynamo themselves on their website so, if your unfamiliar with Dynamo, I’ll wait for you to read their posts before I continue.
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photo credit: Kevin Steele
What started out as a usual Friday afternoon quickly turned into the craziest 72 hours online that I can remember since I first fired up my 14.4k modem back in 1995. Over that period I have run pretty much the full gamut of emotions from despair to elation with every possible combination in between. I’ve cried, I’ve sworn and I’ve whooped with joy. My neighbours probably think I’m some kind of window licking mentalist.
Why?
Because on Friday afternoon, the film that I’ve put blood, sweat and tears into for over 4 years got pirated.
You want to know something? I couldn’t be happier.
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If you are an independent filmmaker in the UK or you’re an actor involved in low budget films you need to mark March 18th 2010 in your diary.
A meeting is taking place in London which could potentially revolutionise the way low budget and indie films are made in the UK and change the landscape forever.
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The debate over National Minimum Wage and low budget filmmaking took an interesting turn a couple of weeks ago when Shooting People launched a survey of its members to see whether or not they supported working for less than NMW. Many critics of SP who had previously accused the organisation of ignoring the issue subsequently ridiculed the poll for being biased and poorly worded. My favourite response from the TV Watercooler website was “its a bit like asking all shoplifters what they think of conditions in retail“.
And you know what? They’re right. Whilst I applaud Shooting People for raising the issue to its membership, the poll itself doesn’t really get to the crux of the issue and that’s the fact that any low budget film or fringe theatre production is potentially breaking the law by not paying its cast and crew National Minimum Wage.
Rather than go over old ground or look at whether it’s fair or not, I thought I’d have a look at the two sides to the argument, a potential solution, why the unions (BECTU and Equity) would not support the proposal and the reasons why they should.
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