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The Grip Guide

This is a really good group of videos/podcast put out by the Pixel Corps. This set of videos gives you plenty of tips to help you get familiar with how to act and what to do on a professional film set.

What makes a good blog

This is a repost from one of my favorite bloggers Merlin Mann at 43Folder.com

Making time.

So do you ever find yourself in a place where you are doing so many little things, answering to many emails, taking to many phone calls and attending to many meetings. Or are you to busy with other things at your job that you don't have time to do what you were hired for? I think we all do. 

Create a quick nice looking blog with Squarespace.com

I tripped across this today and thought it was pretty good.  A lot of people have blogs through blogspot or wordpress, etc.. and the all seem to look alike.  This site will let you move your template around like no body's business and you don't have to know any code at all.  It starts off with basic templates and then allows you to adjust everything about them, and I do mean everything.

Film Meet-up, woohoo

We had a really good turn out tonight.  As a matter of fact we are going to move the Film Meet-up to the church annex next month so we have better sound and more room.  Be sure to invite all of your friends to come and join in.

Portable mixers

I received and email with a link to a great post at B&H.  It is about field mixers. A field mixer is basically a battery powered sound board.  It is more complicated then that show read this post to understand more.  B&H Post

The films have been chosen

We have poured over 30 plus different movies.  Out of those 30 movies we have chosen three to be shown this Saturday night. We will view 2 different documentaries and a Clay-mation short. To find out more information on these films visit the Film Festival section of the site.

Our New Site

 I haven't even written about it yet, and it has been up for about a week or so.  As you can see the new NoRocks site is up and running. We have started loading new information, setup poll, forums and are also pushing our new Film Festival/Meet-ups. More will be coming soon.  Feel free to listen to our podcasts and jump into the conversations on our forums.  As you can see we have started talking a little already.

The next Film Meet-up May 17th

Film Meet-upOur next Film Meet-up will be held on may the 17th.  If you want more information visit the Film Festival section of the website.  We are still in the planning stages for info is sparse, but there will be more within the next day or so.

Church Copyright Overview

If you are found in violation of the Copyright Act of 1976, you will be subject to substantial penalties anywhere from $500 to $200,000 per violation.

I just thought I would throw that out there to begin with because everyone is subject to the restrictions laid out in this act. Churches are no exception, and this is important because more and more churches are beginning to use media. However, there is an old lesson to relearn as well.

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