Peter Shankman’s “If I Can Help a Reporter Out”
This is a very cool site for both sides of the story - the writer/documentarian and source. There’s two parts to HARO.
The main part is where anyone can sign up for the mailing list. A few times a day you get an email with a list of [...]

With graduation looming closer and more people asking me what I want to do, I need to come up with a more concrete answer. Director or produce? Fiction or documentary?
With the way the summer’s been going, I’m leaning towards producing. As for fiction and documentary, I feel a certain loyalty towards fiction. It was the [...]

It’s back to producing mode, so here’s one of my favorite and least expensive tools: the Ikea Big Blue Bag.
About a year or so ago, Ikea started charging five cents for plastic bags. So I picked up three of these for 59 cents each (and snuck one of the yellow shopping bags in there, too). [...]

Though this pertains more to photography (though adaptable for DV), I’ve had some great experiences with the Lowepro CompuDaypack that I took with me to Europe. This bag is designed to hold both a laptop and camera, and it saved my equipment in more than one way.
First, there’s the obvious padded protection that any decent [...]

I just finished designing the DVD for Cubicles to give out to the crew and interviewees. A lot of people liked the design and asked what was needed, so here’s a guide I wrote up.

Maxell DVD-R Printable
50 for $14.99
Get these while they’re still on sale. When first putting the DVD label on my cheapo CompUSA [...]

During my first semester in the Film School we had a Production Management class. In it we were required to create a UPM kit. Shopping for these items brought back grade school memories. Here’s what we had to pickup:

One portable file box or satchel - the UPM kit
One set of erasable colored pencils: red, orange, [...]