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Details Powering The Film Connection Scam

It’s comprehensible to wonder if there’s a Film Connection scam happening. Those who hear about the course may initially think that the school is too good to be true, and couldn’t possibly live up to its guarantees. But the fact is that the Film Connection is a legitimate, well-respected program with a high rate of success amongst its graduates. There are reasons why it is a better alternative to traditional film schools. First, it is not as costly as those film programs you sign up for in film schools. Secondly, it doesn’t take up a lot of time, provides in-depth, updated and hands on training in the film business.

Most significantly, the program provides each student with an internship at a film production company, working one-on-one with a personal coach. The mentor-apprentice set up is important since this can help those who want to pursue a career in the entertainment industry hone their skills. Graduates from conventional film schools spend a great amount of time inside the school room and listening to discussions thus they lack the real word experience unlike Film Connection graduates who get to work in real film studios and experts. That is not a Film Connection scam–that’s a shrewd business model, with obvious success.

It’s a fact of life that in Hollywood, it’s all about “whom you know.” Millions of hopefuls head to Los Angeles and New York in the expectation of making it, but without the right contacts, it can be nearly impossible to even get your foot in the door. (Whether this is bad or good is debatable. Perfectly, nepotism presented us Sofia Coppola, Ben Stiller, and Angelina Jolie along with Miley Cyrus, Tori Spellng, and Carnie Wilson.) Film Connection places you in a guaranteeing position by allowing you to work within the business together with well known personas and professionals. Once you are finished with the course, your contacts inside the industry can help you land a job or they can hire you to do the job for them.

Another advantage from Film Connection is the fact that you don’t have to move around the country in order to finish the curriculum. Pupils needn’t move to another city and pay for relocating and room and board. Since films are produced and shot nearly all around the country, there are valuable internships to be found practically anywhere. Each internship is custom-designed for each student, with flexible schedules that allow students to continue with other schooling and/or their “day” job. For those wise enough to distinguish between a great opportunity and a Film Connection “scam”, the course can be a life-changing experience.

Filmmaking Books: Can They Be of Help?

For many people, the filmmaking industry is a lifetime call and not merely a transient phase. Of course, you must have known what struggling artists are and the histories of very successful filmmaking icons who made it big in the film industry but started poor and desolate. Almost everybody even those who started out with money had to begin in being an apprentice and/or tyros.

Now if you have made a decision to become part of the filmmaking bandwagon and you think this is truly your passion then it’s the right time you know where you should start.

For those people who have not gone into film school but would like to pursue that filmmaking venture, filmmaking books would be such a great help to let you know of the basic tools needed to create your first movie. Filmmaking books will give you the insights on the technical side of filmmaking and the most important pieces of information that you can use to start your film creation pursuits. Now if you already know the basics of filmmaking, there are filmmaking books that you can use to help you improve your craft.

Filmmaking books can be used as quick procedural references that can immensely assist a novice in his or her video production planning and reorganizing and restructuring his or her production process. Keeping you safe from guesswork, filmmaking books can greatly help you in doing your filmmaking tasks such as creating your solid video production, formatting the screenplay, wrap books creation, making a working storyboard and templates for the location release forms.

Through reading modern filmmaking books, your unrefined and amateur knowledge can be developed for it to be at par with those who are already well-versed in the movie-making industry. Some of the benefits of referring to filmmaking books are the following:

– To save on time and money. Instead of taking up expensive filmmaking courses that may take up years to accomplish and hold you back from being a part of the film industry, to catch up new things about filmmaking through filmmaking books can shorten the learning process and let you save up on money.

– Knowing both indie and Hollywood types of movie-making processes and the technical know-how on both

– Understanding the basic filmmaking jargons and being able to use them like key grip etc.

– Upgrading your movie production skills from being home-grade to an accepted industry standard.

Bookmarks: Reviews of recently released books

Here are some books that have crossed our desks recently.

HARDBACKS

HOW TO SQUEEZE A LEMON: 1,023 Kitchen Tips, Food Fixes and Handy Techniques,” The Taunton Press, $19.95 (nf)

The author to this one is listed as “editors, contributors and readers of ‘Fine Cooking.'” And what tips they have. In addition to basic knowledge of different equipment, foods (broken down into produce and meats and poultry) techniques and what to do when things go wrong, there are sections with reader tips. Like keeping a hair dryer in the kitchen to help dry out wet potatoes for French fries to using Styrofoam or a piece of cork to keep corn holders organized. All of the advice is clearly sourced so you know how it’s organized.

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There aren’t any recipes in this one, but it does have 261 pages of information that will help the beginner or the expereinced cook or chef make life a bit easier in the kitchen.

More hardbacks that have recently been released:

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW: For Better or For Worse 1st Treasury,” by Lynn Johnston, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 408 pages, $25.99, is a compilation of the comic strip “For Better or for Worse.”

CINCH!” by Cynthia Sass, HarperOne, $25.99 (nf), offers weight loss results by following simple tips including eating regularly spaced meals and eating healthful meals. “THE NEW EVOLUTION DIET” by Arthur De Vany, Rodale, $24.99 (nf), advocates a diet and exercise regime that is more like the cavemen than the current trends. “WHY WE GET FAT AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT,” by Gary Taubes, Alfred A. Knopf, $24.95 (nf), presents a more scientific approach to weight gain in layperson’s terms.

PAPERBACKS

APPETIZERS,” Fine Cooking, Taunton Press, $19.95, is a cookbook that offers more than 200 recipes for “small bites with big flavor.” Although many of the recipes appear fairly simple, a run to the store might be in order for a few ingredients. It also offers tips (like cutting a pepper and rolling out wrappers for Chinese dumplings) and how to make your own variations on a particular recipe.

I’M TEMPTED TO STOP ACTING RANDOMLY,” by Scott Adams, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 128 pages, $12.99, is the latest compilation of the “Dilbert” comic strip. “BIG NATE FROM THE TOP,” by Lincoln Pierce, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 223 pages, $9.99, is a compilation of “Big Nate” comics. “TASTES LIKE CHICKEN: An Argyle Sweater Treasury,” by Scott Hilburn, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 245 pages, $16.99, is a collection of “Argyle Sweater” comics, which run in the Deseret News. “SHAPES AND COLORS: A Cul de Sac Collection,” by Richard Thompson, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 128 pages, $12.99, is a collection of “Cul de Sac” comics, which run in the Deseret News.

THE NEW NORMAL: AN AGENDA FOR RESPONSIBLE LIVING,” by David Wann, St. Martin’s, 250 pages, $14.99 (nf), advocates living a greener life and gives a few tips on how a community can create gardens, babysitting co-ops, etc.

— compiled by Christine Rappleye

Film Independent Announces Grant Recipients (The Hollywood Reporter)

Daily Box Office: Thursday, Jan 13, 2011 (Box Office Mojo)

Confession D’Un Enfant du Siecle Pictures (Sky Movies)

Sympathy for a Academy (http://carpetbagger)

‘True Grit’ tops Friday B.O. (Variety)

Mel Gibson movie "The Beaver" finds a home

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Mel Gibson’s new movie “The Beaver,” which saw its release postponed last year following the release of audio tapes that damaged the actor’s reputation, will finally receive a premiere in March at a Texas festival.

The South by Southwest music and film festival in Austin, Texas said on Thursday “The Beaver” will have its world premiere at the event on March 16.

The movie, directed by Jodie Foster, tells of a troubled man (Gibson) who communicates with people by using a handheld beaver puppet. Along with Foster and Gibson, the cast includes Anton Yelchin and Jennifer Lawrence.

“The Beaver” was expected in theaters last fall, but was taken off release schedules when tapes were posted on celebrity website Radaronline.com in July during which a man widely believed to be Gibson rants at his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva during a phone conversation. The man also makes a racist slur in one of the tapes. [nN01169732]

The tapes were released when the “Braveheart” actor was still trying to recover from a public backlash over anti-Semitic comments he made to a police officer in 2006.

While film studios fear their stars falling out of favor with the moviegoing public, the tapes of the conversation with Grigorieva may not have had as much of an impact on Gibson’s popularity as once believed.

In August, a “60 Minutes”/Vanity Fair poll found 76 percent of people questioned said they would still buy a ticket to a Gibson movie.

(Reporting by Bob Tourtellotte)

Actor Owen Wilson is a new father (Boston)

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