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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Santa Monica Boardwalk from Double 7 on Vimeo.

Santa Monica Boardwalk. August 13th, 2010. Gotta love the skills on 2-wheels.

In response to David Fincher’s Facebook Movie, “The Social Network”, which we previewed earlier in the week. Pretty funny.

Just a reminder to the follow the Squad on TWITTER.

This is a super-great blending of practical effects and After Effects.

That logo in the middle represents our buddy Al Thompson’s production company. It used to be up there all alone, now it’s coupled with Atom and Comedy Central. There’s a long story of hustle behind that, but we’ll leave that for another post. Click HERE to check out the first 5 episodes of Johnny B. Homeless and while you’re there, take a gander at the next Valdean Web Series, Lenox Avenue!

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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Y’all know how we do. 20 months and still counting! Shorts Shorts continues to grow and we always show the best work from the hottest emerging imagemakers in the game. This month, it looks like I’ll even have something for the screen in a new webisode we’ve been working on (that’s where the screenshot is from). Visit the FACEBOOK GROUP to RSVP and get more details plus the promo trailer after the jump!

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A lot of y’all I’m sure use Twitter. I know this cause we follow each other. Hootsuite is an application that I swear by as it allows you to view all the tweets from the folks that you follow as well as any mention, retweet, direct message, etc that has to do with your account. You can also schedule times for tweets to be sent, track the stats on how many people click on your links, and set up RSS feeds where your Twitter account will automatically tweet from your blog or any other site of interest. OH…one more thing (there’s actually plenty more), you can set up search tabs to track tweets regarding certain key words, trending topics, or points of interest. Get up on Hootsuite and be sure to follow me and my team here:

@petechatmon
@thedouble7squad

(Get your Hootsuite account!)

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

Via Huffington Post:
MIA released her new video for ‘Born Free’ on her website Monday, and it’s not easy to watch. The video shows U.S. soldiers rounding up redheaded men and boys and bussing them to the desert where they are brutally beaten and killed. Whether it’s a comment on the absurdity of genocide (of which MIA saw plenty during her early childhood in Sri Lanka) or a challenge to the idea of “other” in Arizona’s immigration law, it is startling even in the context of recent genre-bending music art-films. The Romain Gavras-directed short is so gruesome (or political) that YouTube pulled it from airing in the U.S., and MIA took to Twitter to rail against her record label, Universal Music Group.