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Baseball player dives in an attempt to catch the ball during the pitch.
Apps

It’s time to Perfect your Pitch

Everyone is pitching something. Writers pitch scripts, producers pitch proposals, and actors pitch themselves.  It’s an endless cycle of closed-door appointments and conference-calls. But it’s

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Smartphone with clapperboard graphic displaying "hhh" for hand held hollywood, referencing DV EXPO '09 and Helios & Artemis.
Apps

DV EXPO: Helios & Artemis

Nic Sadler and Toby Evetts of Chemical Wedding are already quite well know because of their amazing iPhone sun position calculator, Helios. I’m planning on covering

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Close-up of a studio microphone with a pop filter for ADR.
Apps

HOW TO: ADR On The Go

What can you do if your perfect production is made a little less perfect by some lousy audio? Very often, an actor’s lines will be

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Script excerpt showing a character named Bob Smith reacting to his name with Lame Name Shame, referencing someone named Jason Lee who named his kid Pilot Inspektor and highlighting the suffering involved in having
Apps

Are you suffering from Lame Name Shame?

Chip Landmass? Viva LeTruckstop? How about Blunter “Golden Fists” Lighswallow, III? Even though these are all clearly brilliant character names, drenched in dignity and depth…they may

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