Category: Running a company
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Going Live
We’ve been looking at testing out live streaming for years, actually. One of our most treasured schemes way back in the day would have involved live streaming the entirety of principal photography for one of our movies, with four cameras set up in different areas that you could skip between. Always thought that would be…
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New Interview with Pat over at Micro Budget Massacre
If you haven’t yet checked out the awesome blog Micro Budget Massacre, allow us to point you in that direction. The blog was set up by our good friend MJ Dixon, writer and director of a whole slew of terrific independent features such as Slasher House and Legacy of Thorn. Pat’s interview is the latest…
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Hellbride vs Automatic Subtitling
In our attempts to get the mighty Hellbride out to as many people as possible via VOD, (go and buy/rent your copy right here if you haven’t already), we’ve been looking at new options. One of these new options requires subtitles, and Pat’s been wrestling with getting this sorted out via an online automatic subtitling…
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Amazon Video Direct, Vimeo on Demand and the Independent Filmmaker
So Amazon have now launched a new VOD service called Amazon Video Direct, which will allow filmmakers to charge for their work and has been labelled as a cross between Netflix and YouTube. This is an interesting new wrinkle in amongst the VOD options available to filmmakers and indies. We’re planning on trying it out this…
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The Devil’s Music – The Plan
Hi folks, Pat here. You may have seen my entry a couple of weeks back about how the release of The Devil’s Music fell through. We’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the movie and the situation, and I want to share my plan with you. Quick recap: The Devil’s Music is our rock…
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How the BBFC, DCMS and EU VAT Regulations Killed our Movie
Between them, they killed the release of our film The Devil’s Music. It’s a good film that people like, and they killed it. I was worried this would happen when the BBFC introduced changes to their exemption criteria as a result of a DCMS consultation. I hoped that calmer heads would prevail, and the misguided legislation wouldn’t…
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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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Werewolves, Cheerleaders and Chainsaws
It’s here! It’s free! It’s NSFW (strong language, gore & nudity)! Full-length video about low budget horror filmmaking! Full of useful information for budding filmmakers about every step of the process, plus rare clips from Jinx movies (including behind-the-scenes stuff). Filmed live at Horror-on-Sea in January 2013.
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TrashHouse – We Have the Rights Back
Weird thing about Jinx Media still being in business after ten years; we’ve got the rights for our first movie back. We signed a seven year distribution deal for Trashhouse back in February 2006. We signed the UK and the US, but the US elements of the deal went wonky when one of the companies…
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Indie movies and the Illegal Download Thing
Here’s another topic I’ve avoided talking about. I’ve avoided talking about it largely because both sides of this discussion seem so entrenched in their thinking that nice, civilised discourse often gives way to people chucking insults, hyperbole, misleading figures and great big chunks of horse shit at the other side. ‘The other side’. Even that…
Pat Higgins and Jinx Media 