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How to Make a Movie on a Tight BudgetToday's indie film market is
growing by leaps and bounds and filmmaker Rickey Bird and
screenwriter and novelist Al Guevara are on a mission to help indie
moviemakers everywhere. Bird and Guevara want to show aspiring
filmmakers how to overcome common movie and video production
problems: Not enough money for crews Over budget and likely making
the wrong movie Can't get the attention of an indie studio Should
have started with a short film to gain attention Amateur Movie
& Video Production. Thousands of aspiring filmmakers are
learning how to use cheaper, widely available filmmaking
technology, and the craft of making movies from books pulled from
bookstore and library shelves. Their work is totally DIY and they
are the most creative people you will ever meet. Rickey Bird's
Hectic Films is a Southern California enterprise building a
filmmaking empire on a budget. His short films, feature films,
micro docs and tutorials have landed in some of the biggest
American film festivals and been seen online worldwide. The result?
Millions of views worth of exposure from films online, in festivals
and creative marketing literally on the street. His many projects
have seen leading B actors like Hulk Hogan and Vernon Wells (Mad
Max Road Warrior), make-up artists from the TV show Grimm, and
stuntmen from the Call of Duty games. What you'll learn in this
book: How planning and shooting a short film today can lead to a
feature-length project tomorrow Everything you need to know about
writing a movie project on a burger budget Tips on how to find
locations and not get arrested Shooting tips galore for building
exciting scenes Sound and film editing tips and all kinds of
special effects wizardry, including puppetry Screenings,
promotions, and juicy tips on film festival strategy If you liked
books such as How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck, The Filmmaker's
Handbook, or Rebel Without a Crew, you'll love Cheap Movie Tricks.
This work offers an illustrated overview of perpetual motion
machines and their inventors. The deceptively simple task of making
a mechanism which would turn forever has fascinated many famous men
and physicists throughout the centuries. In fact, the basic tenets
of engineering grew from the failures of these perpetual motion
machine designers. And, despite the naivete and even the blatant
trickery of many inventors, there still exist a handful of
mechanisms which defy explanation: A vast canvas-covered wheel
which turned by itself was erected in the Tower of London; Another
wheel turned endlessly in Germany and was discussed by philosophers
and scientists throughout Europe, including Sir Isaac Newton.
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Shows how a desecrated tomb in the Valley of the Kings holds the
key to the true history of the destruction of Atlantis - Reveals
that Tomb 55 in the Valley of the Kings was designed not to keep
intruders out, but to trap something inside - Provides forensic
evidence proving that the mask believed to be the face of
Tutankhamun is actually that of his elder brother Smenkhkare In
Atlantis and the Ten Plagues of Egypt, Graham Phillips explores the
excavation of a mysterious and ritually desecrated tomb in the
Valley of the Kings, Tomb 55, which he contends holds the key to
the true history of the destruction of Atlantis. Unlike other
Egyptian tombs designed to keep intruders out, Tomb 55 was
constructed to keep something imprisoned within, specifically
Smenkhkare, the older brother of Tutankhamun who was deemed
responsible for the ten plagues in Egyptian history, to prevent
such tragedies from ever happening again. The forensic findings
from this tomb coupled with compelling new evidence from the polar
ice caps provide sensational evidence that the parting of the Red
Sea, the deaths of the first born, and the other plagues that
afflicted Egypt were all actual historical events. Core samples
from the polar ice caps indicate that a gigantic volcanic eruption
took place in the eastern Mediterranean around the time of
Amonhotep's reign. Other research suggests this to have been the
time of the eruption that destroyed the Greek island of Thera, one
of the likely locations of Atlantis, and that the subsequent
cataclysm may explain the unusual lack of resistance to the new
religion installed by Amonhotep's son, Akhenaten, when he took
power several years later.
Forensic pathologist Philippe Charlier - dubbed the "Indiana Jones
of the graveyards" - travels to Haiti where rumors claim that some
who die may return to life as zombies. Charlier investigates these
far-fetched stories and finds that, in Haiti, the dead are a part
of daily life. Families, fearing that loved ones may return from
the grave, urge pallbearers to take rambling routes to prevent the
recently departed from finding their way home from cemeteries.
Corpses are sometimes killed a second time...just to be safe. And a
person might spend their life preparing their funeral and grave to
ensure they will not become a wandering soul after death. But are
the stories true? Charlier's investigations lead him to Vodou
leader Max Beauvoir and other priests, who reveal how bodies can be
reanimated. In some cases, sorcerers lure the dead from their
graves and give them a potion concocted from Devil's Snare, a plant
more commonly known as Jimsonweed. Sometimes secret societies use
poudre zombi - "zombie powder" - spiked with the tetrodotoxin found
in blowfish. Charlier eagerly collects evidence, examining Vodou
dolls by X-ray, making sacrifices at rituals, and visiting
cemeteries under the cloak of night. Zombies follows Charlier's
journey to understand the fascinating and frightening world of
Haiti's living dead, inviting readers to believe the unbelievable.
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