Category: Post-production
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How Not to Make a Horror Movie (Live 2015) – IT’S HERE!!
It’s here! The full-length video of this year’s appearance at Horror-on-Sea! Join Pat Higgins (described by SFX magazine as ‘The Tarantino of budget gore flicks for style and dialogue’ and by Empire magazine as the ‘Essex Auteur’) on another romp through the highs and lows of low-budget horror filmmaking. Assisted by the awesome Paul Cousins,…
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Little Shop of Horrors: The Theatrical vs The Director’s Cut vs The Workprint
I’m reeling a little. This morning, I was lecturing about screenwriting in general (and pleasing your audience in particular) and I mentioned the 1986 version of Little Shop of Horrors. I spoke about that notorious test screening where the “Would you recommend to a friend?” cards allegedly came back with only 13% of affirmatives, dictating that…
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I don’t like the sound of that…
Ah, sound recording. Been writing this blog since 2005 and think I’ve managed to avoid talking about sound recording at pretty much every step. I think it’s safe to say that it’s not my specialist subject. Not the thing I’d be grilled about on Mastermind. It’d be an understatement to say I’m ‘still learning’, because…
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Horror-on-Sea: The Aftermath
Well, that was damn cool. The Horror-on-Sea festival dominated my weekend. As the first year of the only horror festival to run in my home town, I’ve been rooting for this weekend to be a huge success ever since I was told about it around last June. I was delighted that the organisers selected Nazi Zombie Death…
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Last Call for Werewolves, Cheerleaders & Chainsaws at Horror-on-Sea
We’re into the final week before Werewolves Cheerleaders and Chainsaws at the Horror-on-Sea festival. As I write these words there are still a handful of tickets left, which can be snatched up by just clicking the logo above. It’s a 90 min live event about low budget horror filmmaking, including all sorts of clips, anecdotes…
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Independent Filmmaking: Cameras and Kit
Indie filmmakers will argue about kit and formats until the end of the world (which, at the time of writing, is scheduled to be in about an hour according to nutjobs and the easily distracted), yet I’ve somehow managed to keep this blog going for six years or so without ever writing about it once.…
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New hour-long interview podcast with Pat
Be sure to check out the new hour-long interview with Pat over at IAmDoFilmmaker, in which Pat discusses his career so far and spills the beans about various stories (from being a walking cliche through to how to build relationships with distributors) It’s a really good listen, packed with detail and stuff that you probably…
Pat Higgins and Jinx Media 