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The Path To The New Model: Join The Community > Hope for Film. It is easy to speak and to write of community, but how do we actually work together to make it better? We are dispersed across the globe, some professional, some amateur, but all driven by passion for a more diverse and ambitious film culture. We have the tools. We have the know how, but we still have a long road before us. Stepping down the path requires us to put one foot in front of the other, and make some progress, even if it might be in the wrong direction. Today's guest post is from filmmaker and lecturer James Fair, a regular contributor to this blog and discussion. The web is full of amateurs that can collectively fail a whole number of times until a pattern of success can be accumulated from the collective mass.

A website like HopeForFilm/TrulyFreeFilm charts the various different experiments that people are taking and enables us to benefit from the cumulative thought. I don’t believe that this process is entirely new or exclusive to the Internet. Starting a Webcomic for Beginners. Now that your webcomic is online, how do you make it popular? Make It Searchable You want people to find your webcomics by their content. Say you have just published a panel about aliens abducting Dana Scully - you want people to google "aliens dana scully" and find it on your site. How do you do it? To make it searchable, I have a TEXT area where I transcribe the text and paste it there. This text area makes it your website searchable. Most search engines search the blog titles or give them high importance: thus it makes good sense for you to put relevant words -- words you want your audience to find -- in blog title or web page HTML title itself.

EXTRA TIP!! Update Your Site, Make It User-Friendly If you don't update your site regularly, people won't come to visit again. HTML Help by The Web Design Group. How Not To Run A Comic - Collecting the Best of the Worst!

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Home Page. Audio Tools. Ge.tt | Gett sharing. 50 Awesome Open Source Resources for Writers and Writing Majors. With the popularity of blogging and online journals, writers working in the online realm have a growing number of opportunities all the time to practice and refine their craft, and maybe even get paid for it. And if you’re a writing major, why not take advantage of all the opportunities to get great free and open source resources that can help you to write, edit and organize your work?

Here’s a list of fifty open source tools that you can use to make your writing even better. Word Processors Why pay for expensive word processing programs when you can get high quality and open source alternatives for much less? yWriter: This word processor is designed especially for writers. Reference Everyone needs a little help with spelling and grammar now and again, and these programs can get you on the right track. JaLingo: This OS independent program allows users to easily look up words in a dictionary right from their desktop, whether they have an Internet connection or not. Organization Helpful Tools. The SeaMonkey® Project. 666 DIY Horror Filmmaking Tutorials. It’s that time of year again, so we thought it was time to update last years killer feature “Horror Filmmaking: From Script to Scream.”

That’s right a sequel! This time we are narrowing the focus a bit and concentrating on the DIY (Do It Yourself) elements. Hopefully this will help you slash the budget without murdering your production values. DIY: Blood, Bullets & Stunts DIY: Stage Effects/Green Screen DIY: Digital Effects After Effects Sony Vegas DIY: Make-Up/Costumes DIY: Static Props DIY: Motion Props DIY: Horror Sets DIY: Packaging Prop Shops & FX Supplies.

201 Ways to Arouse Your Creativity. Arouse your creativity Electric flesh-arrows … traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm. ~ Anais Nin Creativity is like sex. I know, I know. The people I speak of are writers. Below, I’ve exposed some of their secret tips, methods, and techniques. Now, lie back, relax and take pleasure in these 201 provocative ways to arouse your creativity. Great hacks from Merlin Mann of 43 Folders. Top 5 free professional online image editors | Techno. It is the age of digital photography and image editing has become an important tool. There are many Professional online image editors that are available anytime, anywhere and they do not require any downloading or installation.

What do you do when you urgently need to edit a photo and you wished you were at your desktop with your favourite image editing software. Well you can always use an online image editing software that gives you the same freedom and environment. But to use the online image editing services the minimum requirement is a broadband connection. We have gone through and selected the top 5 image editing sites that will help you fix your photo, resize, crop, add effects and virtually do everything that your image editing software can do. 1. pixlr.com This is the most advanced and popular online image editor, free to use.

Launch Pixlr image editor. 2. picnik.com Easy to use and a very powerful editing tool. Launch picnic image editor, no registration required. 3. sumopaint.com.

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