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President Bridger Presents Features...

POSTED BY Wesley Scoggins, 27 August 2008 | PERMALINK

With President of Mogulville Peter Bridger's term almost up, we look back to some of the features that President Bridger shot that feature some tips and funny skits. So here you go, some look back at Bridgers "President Presents" features.

I will miss Bridger and hate to see him leave office, but this is how democracy works, I hope that our next Mogulville...

Check out Steve's new Podcast!

POSTED BY Wesley Scoggins, 26 August 2008 | PERMALINK

Steve has started a new Podcast, every Friday he'll be posting a new video. So if you love Steve's work on the show and want to see more, make sure to subscribe on either iTunes or YouTube.

It's great music, and nice video work, and it's Steve! So check it out and leave him some feedback!

5 Minute Movie House XXIX

POSTED BY Wesley Scoggins, 24 August 2008 | PERMALINK

Lost Dog from Parker on Vimeo.

This week's winner of 5 Minute Movie House is Parker Maimbourg's short "Lost Dog". Good job.

Remember, if you want your short to be posted here on the blog, visit the 5 Minute Movie House Thread on the forums, and submit your own work now! We can't do it without you!

Early Films: George Lucas

POSTED BY Wesley Scoggins, 23 August 2008 | PERMALINK

This week I decided to go back a little further than I did last week, to a Director that everybody knows, George Lucas. Mostly known for the monolith in his career that is Star Wars, George Lucas began his career far more modestly with 1967's Electronic Labyrinth.

Lucas first became truly fascinated by film by his early exposure to the avant-garde, filmmakers such as

Set to Screen Series with Baz Luhrmann

POSTED BY Wesley Scoggins, 23 August 2008 | PERMALINK

Over at Apple.com they are currently hosting a great educational series with filmmaker Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!) featuring behind the scenes work on his new film Australia to be released in November.

They have a lot of really fascinating behind-the-scene features, talking about every step of the filmmaking process and I definitely think it's worth checking...

Some bloopers from "Banana Express"

POSTED BY Justin Johnson, 21 August 2008 | PERMALINK

We have a lot of fun when we make things - here's a slice of the goofiness on the very serious set of "Banana Express."

John Soares Video Interview + Car Chase Teaser!

POSTED BY Wesley Scoggins, 21 August 2008 | PERMALINK

John Soares Interview from WesScog on Vimeo.

A few months ago, I interviewed our friend John Soares of the WestHavenBrook Crew. Unfortunately not long after the video interview was almost completely edited, I had a massive hardware failure, resulting in what I believe was the loss of the interview forever.

But recently I looked at the problem...

Wesley's Weekly HOW TO: Medieval Shield

POSTED BY Wesley Scoggins, 21 August 2008 | PERMALINK

The final week of Wesley's Renaissance Festival, I bring you what many of you have been requesting for weeks since I first started doing some of these medieval props, the basic Medieval war shield. Well I thought and thought about how to do this, and finally came up with an idea that I think would work and not be super expensive, so here you go, hope you enjoy it, the Medieval Shield.

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De-Interlace YER Face

POSTED BY Steve Nelson, 20 August 2008 | PERMALINK

Deinterlacing is one of the first tricks I learned when I began working for Indy Mogul. Although it isn't as cool as iMovie's Lightening Effect, it is an effect that will make your productions seem more professional...and less like you're editing in iMovie.

Recently, online video propagators, Miro, wrote a cute little article concerning the trials and tribulations of deinterlacing; what it...