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• Surviving a 48-Hour Film Challenge
  July, 2010
  by Christa Sadler
  Film and video festivals are great ways to meet other enthusiasts just like you, and nothing gets the blood pumping faster than joining a 48-hour film challenge. Moments after you receive the theme, you then have only two days to plan, shoot, edit and deliver your finished video - do you have the guts to do what it takes?
• What's Legal Placing Products in Your Production
  October, 2009
  by Mark Levy and Michael Bashover
  Placing Products in Your Production
• Organizing your Workspace on a Budget
  January, 2013
  by Peter Zunitch
  When business is slow use your down time wisely. It might be your only opportunity to get your workspace organized.
• Protect Yourself - Watermarking Video
  August, 2012
  by Andrew Burke
  How do you keep your footage from being used online without permission? Watermarking. Well-known to still shooters, video producers need to equally protect…
• How to Find Clients for your Video Business
  July, 2012
  by Michael Fitzer
  Getting your Production Services known by an eager audience isn't like the old days. You can't put an ad in the Yellow Pages or the Classifieds and wait for…
• Creating a Successful Media Database
  July, 2012
  by Peter Zunitch
  A database is a tool for storing, organizing, searching, investigating and displaying mass amounts of information and how it relates to even more information…
• Filming Police
  July, 2012
  by Jennifer O'Rourke
  Your First Amendment Rights - Can you get arrested for videotaping police, politicians, and other government officials - perhaps not in Massachusetts. Are the…
• Music Libraries Buyer's Guide: Carrying a Tune and So Much More
  June, 2012
  by Dave Sniadak
  Make your movies sing with the sound of music, a powerful way to add life and enhance the visual art.
• Protect Your Script and Video
  June, 2012
  by Mark Levy and Amy Manzer
  What is Copyright? Originally designed to protect printed material from being copied without permission, the copyright laws have now extended to include any…
• As Seen on TV: Citizen Journalism Worthy of Your Local News
  June, 2012
  by Dave Sniadak
  When news happens are you ready to record it? Used to be, just traditional professional news jockeys got the story on the air. Now anyone with a camcorder can…
• Creative Commons
  May, 2012
  by Hal Robertson
  Your neighbor might upload something using copyrighted music and no one notices, then you upload something and the copyright police send you a take-down letter.
• Documentary Funding
  May, 2012
  by Mark Holder
  Getting Your Project Off The Ground
• Building Your Home Video Suite
  May, 2012
  by Dwight C. Douglas
  Many entrepreneurs starting a home business just set a desk in an empty bedroom, hang out their shingle and they're in business. But starting a video business…
• New Titles: The DSLR Filmmaker's Handbook, From Still to Motion, Naked Lens
  May, 2012
  by Morgan Paar
  Book and Media Reviews
• How to Market Your Video Editing Business
  April, 2012
  by Mark Montgomery
  So you're ready to start making money using your editing skills? First you'll need to learn how to market those valuable skills, then you need to find where…
• Starting a Production Company: What You Need to Know
  April, 2012
  by H. Wolfgang Porter
  Starting a video production business requires more than just composition and framing skills or a large bank account. It require thick skin and a plan to…
• From Music Video Maker to Hollywood Director
  February, 2012
  by Mark Montgomery
  Editing music videos isn't too hard... all you need is a band, a camera or two, some editing software and a lot of patience! Music video editing is all about the pacing and the genre, and is the one place where you get creative and crazy!
• Risky Business - Film and Video Insurance
  February, 2012
  by Mark Jensen
  Don't put your livelihood and creativity at risk. Film and video insurance is a must for most video business people, to protect you, and your product.
• Fair Use is an Exception to Copyright Law
  April, 2008
  by Mark Levy
  How Fair Is Fair? Copyright Law and Fair Use
• Viewfinder: Unscripted
  December, 2011
  by Matthew York
  Sometimes you spend weeks working on shotlists, storyboards and scooting scripts; and Sometimes you shoot just for fun, and you don't have a plan - your story…
• Find Your Next Job...Online
  November, 2011
  by Julie Camenisch
  With the economy still quite sluggish, even many experienced producers struggle to find video gigs. But video needs are growing, and you're at the right place…
• Vloggers' Rights
  November, 2011
  by Mark Levy and Amy Manzer
  If you discovered someone you never met was profiting off the video clips you carefully shot, edited, and lovingly protected, would you feel cheated? Just…
• Wait, Wasn't That My Substantially Similar Idea?
  October, 2011
  by Mark Levy and Shaun R. Vavra
  Information you need to know to shoot on city, state and federal properties and be fully protected by the law to save you much time and potential legal fees…
• Winning Strategies for Pricing Your Work
  October, 2011
  by Jay Montana
  How do you put a price on your time, skill, and the singularly unique vision that you and you alone bring to a video project?
• Their Video, Whose Copyright?
  September, 2011
  by Mark Levy and Roman Zelichenko
  Information you need to know to shoot on city, state and federal properties and be fully protected by the law to save you much time and potential legal fees for your video projects.
• 15 Websites You Need to Know
  August, 2011
  by Peter Zunitch
  Type "Video Production" in a search URL and you come up with more than 24-million links. Finding your exact needs is time-consuming, but we've narrowed the…
• Opening a Boutique Post House
  July, 2011
  by Sammy Loren
  Many dream of "making it to the show", a term applied to succeeding in Hollywood. For most, it's a long calculated climb full of pitfalls and obstacles. Here's…
• Make Wedding Videos that Wow!
  July, 2011
  by Jay Montana
  Weddings are big business for videographers. But in an industry where most everyone relies on the same tried-and-true techniques, how do you stand out? By…
• You Might be a Video Journalist
  May, 2011
  by Mark Levy and Daniel Rabinowitz
  Information you need to know to shoot on city, state and federal properties and be fully protected by the law to save you much time and potential legal fees…
• What's Legal: Protecting an Idea
  April, 2011
  by Mark Levy, Roman Zelichenko and Dilafruz Sultanova
  When we think of copyright protection, we often think about the down side - how difficult it is to use music in our videos, for example. But the law is on our…