We all have to eat. Here's a few tips on saving money and the environment, all while keeping your crew happy and healthy.
Green Production Tip # 6 The Trouble With Bottles
We all need it, but here's how to get it without the waste and toxins.
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Green Production Tip # 5 Phantom Power
It's like a bad horror movie.
These are simple things you can do around the office and home to save energy and money.
Green Production Tip # 4 Generators
GOT POWER?
Here's the next installment in our Green Production tips.
Saving energy will save you money and with a small production, every penny counts.
Tomorrow we will have a guest Blogger. One of our producers, Amy DeCorte, will be talking about her experiences with the 100 mile diet. Should prove to be very entertaining as well as informative.
Green Production Tip # 3 PAPER
Cutting back on paper is easier than you think. Check it out.
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Green Production Tip #2 Post Picture.
Check us out every Monday for a new tip. Today's is on the Post Production picture process and how you can save some money and keep the planet beautiful.
Thanks to the good folks at REDLAB Toronto for their support.
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Happy Earth Day!
In honor of this day reserved for keeping the planet beautiful, and our commitment to making our productions green, I present to you the first video in a series on greening your production.
Get out today and do one thing that will help make the world a little cleaner and in doing so, you'll be helping future generations enjoy the same beautiful planet we do today.
Cheers
Casey
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Now you can produce a movie with Kevin Smith
Here is the video.
Don't forget, that $10 is CANADIAN!! that's like, $8 bucks US!! So sign up today!
As you might be aware, Producers from My Million Dollar Movie get to choose which environmental charities their profits go to. It’s all about each of us doing our part to keep the planet beautiful. We’re not only making a film, but ensuring that the making of our film does as little damage to the environment as possible.
Well this week I bring you the trailer for “NO IMPACT MAN”.
Colin Bevan and his family have undertaken an amazing project and are sharing the results with all of us. Check out the trailer below and follow Colin on his blog here. They prove that we can all make a difference. You can too.
On a side note: the founder of OSCILLOSCOPE Laboratories and THE BEASTIE BOYS, Adam Yauch, was recently diagnosed with cancer. Adam, we’re all rooting for you to pull through. Get well soon.
Ok, so back when I started this project, my first “Celebrity” endorsement came from Times of London correspondent, Chris Ayres. He found me on Myspace after I listed his first book, “War Reporting for Cowards” as one of my recent favorites (I’ve read it twice since). He bought 5 frames and wrote a great little blog piece about what I was doing.
Fast forward, Chris has written a new book. I just finished reading it and I have to say, CHECK IT OUT!
“Death By Leisure” is hilarious, insightful and so self-deprecating that you can’t put it down. A cautionary tale of excess that every member of Gen X & Y can learn from. Chris hit the nail on the head with this one. (On a spoiler side note, he and I both met our significant others through the magic that is Craigslist.)
Pick up a copy, you’ll learn a thing or two about while being thoroughly entertained.
I ripped the following off of his website because I’m not that eloquent in paraphrasing such a superb story.
From the publisher:
Can one man, acting alone, melt the ice caps and bankrupt the global economy? He can try.
All Chris Ayres ever wanted was everything: a supermodel girlfriend, a clifftop bachelor palace, a fleet of chrome-rimmed SUVs. The way he saw it, nothing could stand in his way. Nothing, that is, except for being broke, prematurely bald, and living in a remote sheep-farming village in Northern England.
So he moved to Los Angeles—just in time for a man named Alan Greenspan to invent cheap money. Really, really cheap money. Before he knew it, Ayres had a million-dollar home and a credit-fueled life of leisure and luxury. Not to mention a cushy job as the showbiz correspondent of a London newspaper.
But, uh . . . those idiots you keep hearing about? The ones who brought down the economy by maxing-out on easy cash? The ones who never knew when to stop, who indulged in such mindless self-gratification it would take the combined atmospheres of twenty-five planets just to absorb their carbon emissions? Yep, that was Ayres.
For a while, of course, everything worked out perfectly. For a while, Ayres looked almost like a success. He crashed Michael Jackson’s final, epic birthday bash at Neverland Ranch. He took a supermodel to Hollywood’s biggest gala in a decade. He drank foie gras pina coladas, smeared caviar in strange places, commuted to a thousand-dollar-a-night bunny ranch in Nevada, and bought a TV so large it could beam messages to extraterrestrials. He even met a wife—through an ingenious internet scam.
You could say that Ayres’s excess was almost Gatsbyesque, except that Gatsby never had an adjustable rate, negative-amortization mortgage from a bank that was recently seized by the feds, or a car that was leased from a company that specialized in borrowing depreciation from the Chinese.
But of course none of it could last. Ayres tap-danced around one catastrophe after another, but finally, the apocalypse caught up with him. It’s funny how the 2000s turned out, isn’t it? Or maybe not so funny, now that the banks are going down faster than the oceans are rising and the Great Depression II is here.
Still, as Ayres says, in the long run: there is no long run. So why not enjoy what’s left while you can?
Good day all, here are a few photos from behind the scenes of our recent photo shoot and rehersal. A great time was had by all and special thanks to Amy DeCorte, Photographer Andrew Verkoyan, Ginger Martini for hair and makeup and Philip Maglieri for the use of his studio . It’s for rent at some sweet prices, check it out here: www. studio204.ca.
We’re now working hard on a poster for the film and will also have some more casting updates soon so stay tuned.
One of our stars, Karen Cliche, is in the new SAW movie!! And below you’ll find the trailer for the latest installment of the franchise.
What will Jigsaw think of next?
And the long awaited trailer for THE FOUNDATION is here. Our writer, Jon Tucker, worked tirelessly on this series and it looks pretty dam funny. If you’re in Montreal, check out a screening and Q&A at the JFL film festival.
And finally, one of my favorite funny men has written and directed his first film. It’s premiering at the JFL film fest as well.
Check out Robin Williams in Bobcat Goldwaite’s directorial debut, WORLD’S GREATEST DAD.
I’ve decided to invite a few friends to participate on this whole blogging thing.
I’m please to introduce the first of our contributors, Ed McNamara, screen writer and jack of all trades at Toronot Green Screen.
Ed and his team are looking at ways to green our industry and I thought it would be cool if he told us about emerging technologies. These tools, gadgets and such won’t be just for film sets, eventually they’ll find there way into our daily lives.
I give you Ed and his first post for us. It’s pretty cool.
Hybrid Solar Base Camp Power System
One the largest areas a film production can have on the environment comes from a production’s need for electricity. Anyone who has lived in a neighbourhood that doubles as a popular shooting location can tell you that for years the electricity needed to power base camps and other requirements for location shooting has been provided by large diesel generators. Green Screen Toronto’s Environmental Assessment of the Film-Based Industries, authored in September of 2008 by Felder, Maleki, Kulperger & Weinberg, measured the impacts of the traditional diesel generator, both in respect to carbon dioxide and particulate matter released into the atmosphere and found that on average, a 1500amp generator can consume 270L of diesel a day, an amount of fuel that creates 149kg/CO2 emission per and 100g of particulate matter per day.
Naturally the industry has responded. Many equipment houses are now fitting their generators with scrubbers that can capture up to 99% of particulate matter as well as providing generators that operate on a bio-diesel or other blended fuel. But moving even beyond this, Pure Power Distribution, working off of its PurePowerD Mobile Power Station, has recently announced the what may be the first scalable solar hybrid base camp power system (http://www.purepowerd.com/blog/2009/07/pure-power-distribution-announces-the-first-scalable-solar-hybrid-base-camp-power-system™/)
The system includes an integrated solar/biodiesel power plant of production 166amps of consistent power, star wagons eco-fitted with solar panels to produce additional power, and a 1000amp generator powered by B20 fuel. While this may or may not be enough to power all of a production’s needs, it certainly is a start. And with a real time online reporting system tracking the solar power used as well as the CO2 and other environmental impacts, the PurePowerD system not only gives production some clean energy, it helps production with what has been a difficult issue for film sets to wrap their heads around – resource tracking.
