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  • Anthony’s Top 5 Reasons Why You Need to Get Down with Podcasting 1. Get People to See Your TrailerIf you’ve got a trailer for your project, there’s no better way to get it out to the masses. You can just post a straight trailer or you can get creative and dole it out in pieces, show entire...read more

  • Too Many Balls in the AirIt’s taken me longer to get up the rest of the Sundance coverage than I thought… had to dub tapes, make transcripts, edit, ran out of hard drive space, blizzard, and still work on all the other elements of the project, blah, blah, blah… you know all the usual daily obs...read more

  • Guerilla Reflections on Sundance - Part 3: Meet the PodcastersI know it’s been 2 weeks since the last blog entry, but seeing how the last entry was so ridiculously long, I figured you'd read it in 2 parts. I’ve been busy cooking up some new stuff for you in the Down and Dirty DV guerilla kitche...read more

  • Guerilla Reflections on Sundance – Part 2:Why You're Crazy Insane if You're Not PodcastingOne of the more interesting panels I attended was on Podcasting and Vlogging and how it’s changing the media landscape. For me this was a must-attend panel, because I think that people (in and out of the in...read more

  • Guerilla Reflections on Sundance – Part 1I’m tired to the bone after 3 days of straight hustling to get the word out about Down and Dirty DV at the Sundance and Slamdance festivals and all the other -dance festivals in Park City, UTAH. I have that all-too-familiar post-wrap exhaustion. You know...read more

  • 5 SOUND RULES TO LIVE BYSome rules were meant to be broken. The following are not. Break these rules at your own risk:RULE #1: GET AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT GETTING IN THE SHOTThe most basic rule for recording dialogue is to get the mic as close as possible without being in the scene. The closer...read more

  • Documentary Location Management 101Although documentary is a different animal than narrative production, you still must manage your locations with the same (if not more) deft social skills to insure the complete success of your shoot. Do not make the common mistake of thinking that just because you...read more

  • THE BIRTH OF A BLOGPlease be patient and check back in February. I'm previewing the books, dvd's, website, and blog all at the SAME time, so I'm just getting started on this thang. Right now I'm dashing off to Sundance to tell the world about Down and Dirty DV, but I didn't want to leave you empty-h...read more