NYFF.45 #4 + Filmmaker. Fall 07.

Jamie Stuart's found a fun way to wrap the New York Film Festival, which you can see in what looks to be final installment in the series, NYFF.45 #4.

While you're there, you'll also notice that the first articles from the Fall 07 issue of Filmmaker are going up, including Jamie's review of the Panasonic AG-HPX500P, in which he describes - besides the camera's attributes, of course - making Gravity Wins, a test that plays like whatever the opposite of drowning would be.

Also online is Jason Guerrasio's talk with Amir Bar-Lev about making My Kid Could Paint That and Scott Macaulay's conversation with Anthony Hopkins about the making of Slipstream.

Lizzie Martinez describes meeting John Sayles and Maggie Renzi and working as their casting director. "And what better way to make a movie than to surround yourself with people you care about and to make something together that you all feel has worth in the world. It is a method that is underrated in our country and, these days, seems almost nonexistent."

"Over the last six months, I‘ve been experimenting with a collision of gaming, movies, music and technology know as a MIG (media-integrated game play)," writes Lance Weiler (The Last Broadcast, Head Trauma). "The MIG is a way in which the audience can experience a story across multiple platforms and devices. Characters from a film interact directly with an audience via live encounters, phone calls, text messages and e-mails. These interactions lead to clues consisting of hidden media, sites, blogs and social networking pages, all of which extend the film‘s storyline and provide life for its characters beyond the screen." Samples with links follow.

And editor Jay Cassidy reviews Avid's ScriptSync.

Posted by dwhudson at October 22, 2007 11:50 AM