Demo your songs

I have bands demo their songs before they come in to record. This gives me a change to listen to what they plan on doing and talk to them about the arrangment etc.... It make a big difference when they come in to record. Binary Recording Studio

Voice Narration at Binary Recording Studio

Voice talent is very important in the work we do at Binary Recording Studio. We do voice over work for commericals, film, video, educational, etc. These people we have worked with are some of the best, and we are very lucky that they are in our area and ready to work on your project!,give us a call or email. http://www.binaryrecordingstudio.com Picture of Dave who is working on a audio book, he is one of the best for audio books.

Large recording space at Binary Recording Studio

We have a great large space for recording Studio B. 1000sq. tall ceilings and a full kitchen for those long sessions. Open to video production companies! Binary Recording Studio

Our new Film: Entropic, Order to Chaos

 Update at Binary, our film will be showing in Houston TX at the George R Brown Convention Center in August.  Big honor to be involved in this presentation.  Stay tune for more updates! A Binary Bob Production

Jackson is an entropic photographer who captures the decay of the history around us.

He focuses his lens on crumbling rural , transportation, and industrial images.

When faced with a tragic loss of a loved one, he discovers that his art is a way to deal with his grief.

Looking forward to having large groups in the studio, Binary Recording Studio

 Its been a year and a half without large groups of musicians in the studio due to Covid.  Looking forward to getting back to it again.

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Binary Recording Studio Guitar Amps

 We offer a selection of guitar amps in the studio and most often if you have a special request we can help you out.  Also we have a software modeling guitar amp simulator that really sounds pretty good!  Feel free to check out out website at Binary Recording Studio

Audio Book production at Binary Recording Studio

 We do audio book production at the studio, we can  provide voice talent, mastering etc....  We would love to help you with your project.  Binary Recording Studio  Below picture of one of our voice talents Luke.

Guitar Amp at Binary Recording Studio

One of the amps that is used a lot in the studio our vintage Fender Twin Reverb, sounds great when it's turned up! Binary Recording Studio has a great selection of guitar amps

Neotek recording board at Binary Recording Studio

 A great vintage board made in Chicago , aside from the mic pre's in the Neotek, we use neve and tube mic pre's in laying down our tracks. Binary Recording Studio.

White Pearl drum setup in the studio, Binary Recording Studio

Small set with a big sound.  To get that big sound from any set requires making sure that you do not have phase issues.  Lots of mic's can be a problem if you don't place them right. Binary Recording Studio

Building Bellingham Podcast at Binary Recording Studio

Podcast are in demand as much as audio books.  Building Bellingham Podcast focus on new business that shape our community.  Leo Cohen interviews Anne-Marie Faiola of Bramble Berry in the newest podcast.  Recorded at Binary Recording Studio 

Recording fiddle in the studio with Crow Magnet

Andy engineering the Crow Magnet session, Chris laying down some fiddle parts

How do Musicians get paid for Movie music

We have some great musicians that record instrumental music in the studio that I believe would be some great material for film use.  Here is a company that would enjoy having you sell your music for just that. http://www.raindance.org/soundcheque-how-musicians-get-paid-for-movie-music/


Website:  http://soundcheque.com

Storyboard Master Class for Film by J. Todd Anderson

Alfred Hitchcock’s films were known to be extensively storyboarded. He once commented that his films were often anticlimactic for him after they were edited, because he’d already experienced them in the storyboard. However, storyboarding helped Hitchcock plan out his films shot by shot, solidifying his vision.

Vimeo Video School

Vimeo has put together a great group of lessons, tutorials and advice for film makers for all levels.  They are calling it the "Vimeo Video School",  below are some of the category's.  Its a new service they are building with a great community of people adding content.  Check out the link and see if there is something that can add to your film making skills!

• 4Behind The Scenes
• 4Do It Yourself
• 4DSLR
• 4Editing
• 4Gear
• 4Lighting
• 4Shooting
• 4Software
• 4Sound
  
  
  

The Art of the Video Interview with Philip Bloom

At Binary Recording Studio we do documentary films. What makes a good doc. film is the interview.
Here is a article about that from Philip Bloom.

LINK: http://themusicbed.com/blog/2013/05/tmb-presents-the-art-of-the-video-interview-with-philip-bloom/

Digital Distribution & Marketing BitTorrent Bundle the FUTURE?

BitTorrent, a tech company whose name is commonly and incorrectly associated with pirating, has been running a legitimate business since 2004 with over 2 million pieces of licensed content in the BitTorrent download manager, which serves more than 170 million people monthly. The company is now beginning to launch a new endeavor to empower those in the content creation business. BitTorrent Bundle provide a way for creators large and small to have all the advantages of the peer-to-peer protocol while also maintaining control over their content by creating ‘gates’ that must be unlocked by the consumer. We had a chance to chat with Matt Mason, VP of Marketing at BitTorrent, who is very impassioned about what this new publishing platform could potentially mean for creators.

NFS: What are the advantages of peer-to-peer file sharing for entertainment distribution?

Matt: Because the BitTorrent ecosystem is completely distributed, peer-to-peer essentially means you can move really large files without any servers because everybody who is sharing the file is part of the processing power of storing and sending that file. The BitTorrent Bundle is the internet’s media format, it’s a format that works the way the internet works, it’s distributed by nature, it’s designed to be shared infinitely and still add value to content creators, and you can put anything inside a Bundle. It could be high-def or 4K, and you could ship that Bundle to an audience of hundreds of millions for a cost of zero dollars. It’s the most efficient way to move large files around on the internet, that’s what the BitTorrent protocol was designed for. That’s what it does. Every day the BitTorrent protocol already moves more data that everything on HTTP combined. It’s a proven technology and we wanted to build something that allows publishers and content creators to take advantage of that.

The reason Bram our founder invented BitTorrent was: he saw the future and the future was that HTTP which was designed for moving hypertext was just not gonna work for moving videos, music, large code updates — the files are getting bigger and BitTorrent was designed for that as a protocol, and now we’re at the stage that so many content creators want to publish with BitTorrent that we felt it was time to build this format that allows them to do it.

Raw video 24p from Canon 5D Mk lll, Magic Lantern

Magic Lantern managed to pull 24p RAW footage out of the Canon 5D Mk lll.

The test video isn't anything special in terms of content, but the difference between the RAW video and the H.264 video is huge in terms of both dynamic range and resolution. By cropping the video to 1920×817 he gets a 2.35:1 wide screen aspect ratio, resulting in 1080p RAW videos with black bars on top and bottom.
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Film Producer Ted Hope talks about film industry

Film Producer Ted Hope talk about some things indie filmmakers should think about.

 "I will unleash what I think is necessary to recognize about our industry if you are a filmmaker looking to survive from the work you generate."

1. Filmmaking is not currently a sustainable occupation for any but the very rare. It is not enough to be very good at what you do if you want to survive by doing what you love.

2. Presently speaking, artists & their supporters are rarely the primary financial beneficiaries of their work – if at all. Filmmakers are not sufficiently rewarded for their quality creative output under current practices.

3. The film industry’s economic models are not based on today’s reality. They are predicated on and remain structured upon antiquated principles of scarcity of content, centralized control of that content, and the ability to focus the majority of consumers towards that content.

4. Film audience’s current consumption habits do not come close to matching the film industry’s production output. America remains the top film consumption market in the world, and is thought to be able to handle only around 1% of the world annual supply – consuming somewhere between 500-600 titles of the annual output of approximately 50,000 feature films. We make far more films than we currently know how to use or consume. We drown our audiences in choices.

5. The film industry has not found a way to match audiences with the content they will most likely respond to. It doesn’t even look like this is a priority for the business. Everything is spaghetti against the wall, marketed in the same way & only to the most general demographics of race, gender, & income.

6. In order to reach the people who might respond to a film, the film industry remains dependent on telling everyone (including those who could not care less) about each new film. It is a poorly allocated dedication of resources. We spend more money telling those who will never be interested, than focusing on those who have already demonstrated support. There is no audience aggregation platform exclusively for those who love movies, no place where all people who love movies engage deeply about films – if there was, marketing costs could shrink.

7. Digital distribution is an emerging market and will continue to evolve over the next decade. The value for titles for the long-term has not been specified for digital distribution; currently only short-term value is derived – and as a result films are licensed without full understanding of future worth. We are doing a business of ignorance.

8. Predictive value of films is primarily currently determined by an incredibly imprecise method:“star value”, a concept that grows less predictive by the day. Ask anyone and they will tell you that people do not go to movies anymore to see specific stars but interesting subjects. Granted, that is not a scientific method, but we know it to be true.

9. The “fair market value” of a feature film’s distribution rights in the US that multiple buyers want has dropped astronomically: from 50% of negative costs 25 years ago, to 30% 15 years ago, to 25% 10 years ago, to 10% today.

10. International territorial licensing of American independent feature films has dropped by approximately 60% over the last decade. Major territories no longer buy product. Most have given up on “American Indies”.

11. Everything that has ever been made, has also been copied. The logic of a business based on exclusive ownership or limited access to something can not sustain. In the digital era, the duplication of data is inevitable. The unauthorized copy will never go away. People can choose to try to avoid unauthorized versions, but they will be made or shared. This does not have to always be a bad thing, either.

12. Competing options for film viewing have diminished the comparative value of theatrical exhibition. A consumer can not justify the cost of a movie ticket when that ticket costs more than the cost of a month of unlimited streaming. Home theaters’ quality surpasses many theaters, and the seats are always better. Soon, 4K Televisions will be the norm, while movie theaters are stuck in 2K.

13. The film business lacks a long-range economic model for exhibition. What is the business of movie going? Exhibition gathers people together to sell them a 15 cent bag of popcorn for six dollars. We can profit from a large group’s interest in more and more meaningful ways, but the infrastructure is not yet designed to exploit this.

14. The film industry foolishly rewards quantity over quality. Producers are incentivized to forever take on more and the films’ quality suffers as a result. The best work is not rewarded. Once upon a time, filmmakers got overhead deals and that made some difference, but those days are long gone.

15. Movies have a unique capacity to create empathy for people and actions we don’t know or have not experienced. Science has shown that the imagined releases a similar chemical response to the actual experience. If this empathic experience is virtually unique to film, can it be utilized more? I think so, tremendously so, in fact.

16. Movies create a shared emotional response amongst all those that view it simultaneously. What other product can claim that? As a unique attribute, how can you emphasize that more? Shouldn’t that be the takeaway that your audience remembers and shares?

17. There has never been a better time for most creative individuals to be both a truly independent filmmaker and/or a collaborative creative person. The barriers to entry are lower, the cost & labor time of creation & distribution are lower than ever, and there are more opportunities and methods than ever. We just need to abandon the old ways and unearth the new ways.

For film makers, from an entertainment attorney

Entertainment attorney Mark Litwak shares some advice for indie film makers that I think is worth listening too.