Site Review: Digital Filmmaking Blog

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Written on 2:47 PM by Unknown

Digital Filmmaking Blog is as the title says - a blog on film making - digital filmmaking to be precise. It is authored by who else, but yours truly :-) Its tough maintaining 2 blogs when blogging is a hobby you cannot devote your full time to!

It is quite unfair to review my own blog, but I'll give it a try. I'd rather appreciate that my readers check it out and post their thoughts and comments here. Now to the review. Filmmaking is quite a specialized subject, in which few people might be interested in. By those I mean people like film school students, amateur filmmakers, independent and short filmmakers and so on...

But those who are genuine movie buffs and appreciate the art and craft of cinema also follow the ways of making a film. It is quite exciting, challenging, well paying and of course a lot of hard work! Now my blog focuses on ways to make a good digital film - things like choosing the right camera, Shooting for the Web, DV Shooting Tips, how to film from a car and so on....

Most of the material I have there is stuff learnt in my film school (yes I'm a film student - just graduated!) , some from filmmaking books (not copy pasted though), some from the net and rest by reading other filmmaking blogs. The design of that site is pretty serious and decent. A smart, decent package on the whole I feel. The only problem - my posting frequency has declined and I'm trying to work myself on improving that! Would appreciate some comments...

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Flip in Your Tracks

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Written on 12:59 PM by Unknown

In my quest to serve my readers What's Hot n What's Not, I wade through the internet jungle at odd hours and extract old gems or new diamonds. Today's WazzHot feature is a website cum service that allows bloggers and websites to create digital slideshows.

This new service, tentatively called fliptrack - allows users to create musical slideshows, holiday greetings and scrapbooks. In fact, fliptrack has this unique tool that allows you to create music videos by combining your photos with their library of popular music. In their own words:

  • fliptrack is a tool that allows you to easily match images to the lyrics and rhythm of a song ― just like a music video or movie soundtrack.
  • fliptrack provides hundreds of pre-licensed songs so you can legally share your fliptrack video anywhere on the web.
The best part is that fliptrack is useful for both website visitors and webmasters. Its useful or webmasters and bloggers as the videos can be embedded in publishing platforms like Blogger, Myspace, Xanga, Friendster and Piczo. You can even embed such a video in your hi5 profile!

A WazzHot thumbs up and good luck for this new service.

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