Seems like everyone is buzzing like bees over Canon DSLRs these days, us included. It is as if some sort of new technological renaissance has begun, with Canon seemingly merging two technically separate worlds and uniting them in the same fashion they’ve always existed in artistically. The still, motion pictures’ roots and video, where motion picture has been ever evolving, have made many leaps and bounds in the last year alone with advancements in mobility, portability and ease of use, while also raising the bar in what consumers, prosumers and professionals want out of an image.

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Beautiful stories are being told as the recent DSLR wave of filmmaking has taken viewers and filmmakers by storm!

C3Stories was no exception when the Canon 7D was used in the production of All Gifted: The Meet and Greet, then again with Pete Chatmon of Double 7 Film to do the post production of The Bridge: Velvet Rope: Girls’ Night Out, shot exclusively on the Canon 7D by Leyla Tatiana Rosario.

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5 light arri kit – two 650w fresnels, one 300w fresnel and two 150w fresnel

one 1000w arrilite open face w/ chimera

three 4′ four bank kino flo’s with 3200 and 5500 bulbs

two 1000w fresnels

c- stands and air stands

freshly built 50′ and 25′ stingers with cube taps

sand bags, matthillini’s, duck bill and etc.

Check out the cover for the 6-DVD set of Indie Film Bootcamp! I won’t get all redundant, you can read the post below if you don’t know what’s up with this future classic. Save $30 if you pre-order today!

As I mentioned HERE earlier in the week, we are putting the final touches on our 6 DVD “Indie Film Bootcamp” Instructional Series. Just last night we got the first proofs of the DVDs and all is moving forward as planned. Pre-Order by June 30th and save $30 off the $129 price. You can’t beat that for more than 8 hours of content. Seminars include:

- Down and Dirty Filmmaking (Anthony Artis)
- How to Make a $1 Million Video…Without $1 Million (Benjamin Ahr Harrison)
- Documentary Interview Bootcamp (Anthony Artis)
- The Psychology and Technique of Directing (Pete Chatmon)
- Raising Funds & Pitching…Effectively (Pete Chatmon)
- How to Break Into the Industry (Anthony Artis)

Product will ship the first week in July.

I watch a good movie for entertainment purposes, though I never fail to deconstruct what works and what doesn’t. If they have a commentary on the DVD, I often watch the movie AGAIN immediately. Some call it OCD, I call it studying. I never got to do my own commentary for PREMIUM, and now I’ve made up for that with my seminar called “The Psychology and Technique of Directing”. It’s part of a 6-DVD Set from our Indie Film Bootcamp presentation and trust me when I tell you, the information packed into this volume will save you a lot of time, a bundle of money, and many mistakes that could certainly derail your career before the train ever gets going.

At this month’s SHORT SHORTS I’ll be giving a little preview you won’t want to miss. FACEBOOK RSVP HERE.

And go ahead and buy your DVD now! Click here and scroll to the bottom to pre-order!

TheBridge:VelvetRope “Girls Night Out” from C3 Stories on Vimeo.

Check out the video above for the web component that complements a 1 hour cable series we are developing. And read below to see why we’re on to something. The Wall Street Journal has our back on this:

Original Web series are finding a niche at night. In a change from traditional online-video watching, which was built during daytime, providers of free original Web content and others that rerun TV programs are reporting strong viewership gains during evening hours. At Blip.tv, which distributes tens of thousands of independent online video shows, peak viewing time has moved from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. a year ago to 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. across U.S. time zones. Online video service Revision3′s prime-time views now top lunchtime views by 20%, a change from last year. Evening viewing at video site Break.com has grown 18% in the past eight months, while daytime viewing was up less than 5% in the same period.

Click HERE for the full WSJ article.

And check out the Behind The Scenes on our web series after the jump!

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I visit TED’s website quite often just because. Take a look and see why.

About This Talk:
It may seem that big problems require big solutions, but ad man Rory Sutherland says many flashy, expensive fixes are just obscuring better, simpler answers. To illustrate, he uses behavioral economics and hilarious examples.

(VIA TED)

Experiments in modern job hunting.

Fast Company is the most inspiring magazine that I read. Just renewed my subscription matter of fact, and coupled it with Inc. Magazine (the second most inspiring magazine I read). Each year they run a special issue where the staff determines the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the world and every year they are ahead of the curve while providing analysis on last year’s movements.

Click HERE to check out the article and think about what it means to have 350,000,000 users. That’s gangsta.

(VIA Fast Company)