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	<title>Independent Filmmaking &#187; low-budget</title>
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		<title>Movie budget in your attic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryon Blakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The movies that I have financed myself have all come from a very unusual funding source. They were not financed by investors, credit cards or purchased in advance by distributors. Believe it or not they were financed by liquidating stuff that I have collected over the years. I got all the junk that I wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Accidents</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryon Blakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Merenda
I was at home enjoying a &#8220;Sopranos&#8221; DVD I had rented. After watching the episode, I scanned the special feature: an interview by film director Peter Bogdonavich, (who plays a small role in the series) with the series&#8217; creator David Chase.Bogdonovich asked Chase if he had planned certain nuances in the acting and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Five Tips for No Budget Movie Makers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryon Blakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Brian Andrews


Ready to make your movie? Here are a few simple tips to help you on your way. These are things I&#8217;ve learned from books, online resources and my own experience making short films. Enjoy&#8230;1. It&#8217;s the Story, Stupid&#8230;.filmmaking is story telling. You need a good script. You need a story that you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our independent Film Nine Grounds is getting a burst of downloads on amazon.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryon Blakey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Distribution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally a significant number of &#8220;Nine Grounds&#8221; rentals are coming in through Amazon&#8217;s unbox downloadable movies. They are cheap to rent or download to own. I&#8217;m glad to see that it is finally being recognized and found by people out there. Black Meadow Productions completed the movie in 2007. It was a years labor and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Download &#8220;Nine Grounds&#8221; to rent or own.</title>
		<link>http://www.blackmeadow.com/download-nine-grounds-to-rent-or-own/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryon Blakey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Distribution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man, I absolutely love working with Createspace.com. We just checked our sales and noticed that we rented &#8220;Nine Grounds&#8221; twice through amazon.com&#8217;s Unbox. I didn&#8217;t know it was for download until now. This was set up by Createspace automatically when I uploaded the movie. It has taken quite a while for it to be available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN Bus goes up in flames during production of Nine Grounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryon Blakey</dc:creator>
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It was a horrifying, one minute the UN bus was good and moments later, engulfed in flames. Is it legitimately a UN bus? No. Did it really catch fire? Yes. I&#8217;ll keep this story brief.
Our production company (Black Meadow Productions)  was producing a low-budget film called Nine Grounds an action movie shot for direct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to make fake blood for independent film</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryon Blakey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Special Effects]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the shooting of a low budget movie there will be lots of times you will need fake blood. Unfortunately too often blood in movies is unrealistic. If it is not too thin and see through it looks sticky and and it beads up  as in the picture to the left. Recipes are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Steps to a Good Low-Budget Movie Script</title>
		<link>http://www.blackmeadow.com/6-steps-to-a-good-low-budget-script/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackmeadow.com/6-steps-to-a-good-low-budget-script/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryon Blakey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of things that low-budget screenwriters should consider.

Give the character some depth. He or she is a human being you are creating. They have a past, dreams, failures and successes just like every real person does. This all needs to be fabricated but credible. You will want to do a background (character [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write a low-budget movie script that sells</title>
		<link>http://www.blackmeadow.com/writing-a-low-budget-screenplay-that-sells/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackmeadow.com/writing-a-low-budget-screenplay-that-sells/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryon Blakey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are a few points to consider when writing a low-budget screenplay is not all of them and I&#8217;ll try to discuss more in later posts. This is a suggested guideline from my experiences over the years working on independent micro and low budget movies.

Create the screenplay around the fewest and best locations that you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay Tuned!</title>
		<link>http://www.blackmeadow.com/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryon Blakey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, it&#8217;s monday June 2nd and it is time for a new look and feel for blackmeadow.com. I will be using this blog to keep everyone updated on events and to answer some of the many questions that low-budget filmmakers have been asking. I recommend you subscribe to the rss feed on the right to [...]]]></description>
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