Archive for November, 2008

Free Laurels, get your free Laurels here…

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

I like free stuff. So here’s something free that every filmmaker can use. Your done with your film and you’ve entered it into some film festivals and you got IN congratulation!

I’m sure the last thing you want to do is make more art work to promote your film. I wanted to show off the festivals I was accepted at but I found most Festival didn’t have their own Laurels to hand out. So I made some, now I figure other filmmakers can use them too.

Just click on the image or here to download your customizable PSD file. Yes you will need Photoshop to use this.

In the PSD you’ll find a black version and a white version.  But you can make these any color to match your website.  Here’s how use can use them.

  1. Click on the text layers to change the name of the film festival, it’s subtitle, and year.
  2. Then select all the text layers and recenter the text so they fit in the Laurels nicely.
  3. Set background color.  There is a black and gray in there now but you can set those colors to anything you need.
  4. Transparent background.  Turn off the background colors, then select “Save for Web” in Photoshop and select the PNG file format.  Then you won’t have to worry about color.

I tried to make the psd a nice size so it could be scaled down to any size for web and it should still be okay for print on posters or DVD cases.

Let me know if you find them useful.  If there are questions leave a comment.

Quest, Ride the Light?

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Remember this?

“every movie, ever made, in every language, anytime day or night”

What’s the hold up?

My Top 10 Movies

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Be warned this list can change from time to time.  These are not in order of importance just must see movies.

  1. Dude, Where’s my Car?
  2. Donnie Darko
  3. The Thing Directed by John Carpenter
  4. Miracle Mile
  5. Colossus “The Forbin” Project. Don’t wait for Ron Howards version
  6. Run Lola Run
  7. The Butterfly Effect
  8. May
  9. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  10. Duel
  11. Ghost dog.
  12. Lady Killers with Alec Guinness
  13. Marathon Man

Oh and yeah I made it 13 because of Halloween!  BOO!