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The DSLR Cinematography Guide is live!
In August I spent a lot of time thinking about DSLRs and their unexpected revolutionizing of moviemaking technology. Most digital cinematographers, I think, expected this sort of price/performance...
View ArticleWelcome to the new No Film School! (2010 Edition)
UPDATE: we relaunched in 2014. This was our original launch announcement from 2010. Thanks for visiting the new No Film School: a site for independent creatives and multi-hyphenates. If you're a...
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How to make movies with DSLRs (the DSLR Cinematography Guide is updated)
Thanks to everyone for checking out The DSLR Cinematography Guide, which is up to 20,000 views since launching less than a month ago. While it's great to get traffic for something, what I'm most...
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Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo is now Ryan Koo
I'll have more from this weekend's terrific Script to Screen conference in the days to come, but for now, a meta-update. On the web, my name is often misspelled, and in person, no one knows how to...
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New and improved: The DSLR Cinematography Guide
Once again, I've updated and expanded The DSLR Cinematography Guide to the tune of 5,000 words -- it's gone from 10k to 15k. While I'm tossing out numbers: according to Google Analytics, the guide has...
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Quick note on the DSLR Guide & Story Beyond the Still
Previously I was writing the DSLR Guide offline and then posting a new version once a month. That doesn't really make much sense anymore, so now I'll just be updating it on a section-by-section basis...
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The No Film School Manifesto
Here is how many in my parent's generation spent their careers and made their money: They got paid by one company, and there was an assumption that the company would take care of them, providing health...
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Can a blog be self-sustaining? No Film School's traffic and revenue
Can a blog like No Film School be self-sustaining? As a blogger you can make money by being a contributor to a huge tech or political blog, wherein you're one of many staff writers churning out content...
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Take the No Film School survey and help make this site better!
I'd like to make No Film School into a better daily resource for creatives, so please take this quick survey so I know who you are and what you're interested in! For most of these questions, you can...
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How I lied my way into MTV
Up until now I've never really told the truth about my career as a graphic designer -- namely, that it was a complete sham. Sure, I'd dabbled in Photoshop once or twice in college and a few times as a...
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Can we please just call them DSLRs?
I have noticed a disturbing trend, and I am here to quash it! Ever since Digital Single-Lens Reflex cameras started showing up with a movie mode, people have felt the need to call them by a new name....
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The No Film School survey results: just a bunch of dudes (and a few Mamans)...
Thank you to everyone who took the No Film School survey I posted a week ago -- you've confirmed that we are indeed a bunch of multi-hyphenates. Only 13% of respondents had one answer to the question,...
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What is Google’s take from the ads on this site (and all around the ‘net)?
To date, all of the ads on No Film School have been Google AdSense ads, which means that Google is filtering the keywords on my site -- along with your browsing history, apparently -- to serve ads that...
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Please take this quick poll! More daily posts or more original content?
You may have noticed the posting frequency increase here over the past two weeks; I've been posting 3-4 times a day instead of once. I didn't announce beforehand that I was going to do it -- I just...
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A funny thing happened on the way to the form
A couple days ago I posted a poll asking readers what they would prefer: more daily posts culled from around the web, or less posts focused on original content. As an experiment, I asked the same...
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What video/filmmaking/DSLR equipment would you like to see reviewed?
Thanks to my guide on DSLR cinematography I have the opportunity to get my hands on some filmmaking equipment for review purposes. This is also possible because I'm moving into an apartment July 1,...
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Full Disclosure
Last year the Federal Trade Commission passed legislation [PDF link] requiring bloggers to disclose their connections to products, advertisers, and other sources of income. I'm not exactly raking it in...
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A Slight Design Refresh and a Bit on No Film School's (Social Media) Traffic
You may notice things look a little different around here today (if everything looks the same, you might have to hold Shift and click your "refresh" button). Note there are no major aesthetic changes...
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Why I Lived out of a Suitcase for a Year (And Why You Should Too!)
It hasn't been easy writing a blog about filmmaking without having a project of my own to show since my 2007 fly-by-night production of The West Side. The main reason for this? I tried to get...
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Did You Quit Your Day Job? No Film School Wants to Hear from You!
No Film School is "a site for independent creatives," and to that end I'd like to make it about independent creatives other than myself. If you're a writer, director, producer, artist, designer,...
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Updated and Expanded DSLR eBook Coming Soon
Because of their low prices and dual-functionality, DSLRs are going to be around for a while -- regardless of whatever new cameras come out in the next 12 months. To that end, I'd like The DSLR...
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Help No Film School Grow!
Since re-launching in January of this year, No Film School has received over 500,000 pageviews from 200,000 visits. With an average time on the site of 5 minutes, that accounts for one million minutes...
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Get a 100-page eBook of the “astonishingly detailed and useful” DSLR...
Filmmaker Magazine called The DSLR Cinematography Guide "astonishingly detailed and useful" at launch. Now the guide is updated, expanded, and professionally designed into a proper eBook. Including the...
View ArticleSorry for Lack of Updates - Back at it Soon
For the first time since re-launching in January, I haven't posted something to the site in a couple of days. Or maybe it was just one day -- I can't really remember, as I've been burning the midnight...
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No Film School is Now Open for Advertising
Are you a DSLR accessory manufacturer, camera company, software developer, or anyone whose customers are filmmakers and independent creatives? You can now advertise on No Film School for as little as...
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No Film School is Looking for Guest Posts!
Have a filmmaking experience you'd like to share? Got your hands on some good (or bad) equipment? Record a helpful tutorial? Interview another filmmaker? All of this content is of interest to us, but I...
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No Film School Nominated for Total Film's Best Creative Blog Award - Please...
I'm very pleasantly surprised to be nominated for Total Film's Best Creative Blog Award. After just one year of running No Film School as a daily blog, I'm honored to be listed alongside the likes of...
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Thanks to You, No Film School Wins Total Film's 'Best Creative Blog' Award!
The 2011 Total Film Blog Awards results are in, and No Film School has won the Best Creative Blog award. Thanks to everyone who made this possible by voting! In fact, so many of you voted for No Film...
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No Film School's RSS Feed Going Excerpt-Only (Everything Else Staying the Same)
"Oh my God dude, you win this award and all the sudden you think your site's too good to give away all the content for free?" Well, no, everything is staying free. I've even said no to some offers for...
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Top Stories from March
If you don't get the No Film School newsletter, which cleanly summarizes each week's stories in one concise email -- or if you're just wondering which posts were the most trafficked this month -- here...
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Maintaining Objectivity: How I Will (And Won't) Be Covering NAB
The interesting thing about covering an event like NAB in person -- especially one that stretches across several halls -- is, when you're on one floor, you don't really know what's going on elsewhere....
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Poll: What Do You Want to See in the Next Version of No Film School?
I launched the current version of No Film School in January of last year, which makes this design 20 months old. It was the best I could do while living out of a suitcase and devoting a maximum of one...
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Want a Great Job You Can Do Anywhere? No Film School is Hiring Writers.
UPDATE: the application form is now closed. Thanks for your interest and stay tuned for future opportunities! As a writer/director I’ve done my best to learn a bit about every aspect of filmmaking, but...
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No Film School's Top 10 Posts of 2011
Traffic is a funny thing (internet traffic, that is, not the kind at left). I don't pay very close attention to which posts are getting the most hits, at least not on a day-to-day basis, but at the end...
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Please Give a Warm Welcome to No Film School's New Writers, Joe Marine and...
There hasn't been a byline on my posts here because, for the past two years, I've written 1,054 out of the 1,078 total posts on this site. One of my favorite comments has been "you guys are doing a...
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Please Welcome New Writers Justin Minich, Christopher Boone, and MarBelle!
No Film School is written by filmmakers, for filmmakers, and the upside of that is we bring real-world knowledge and experience to our daily writing. The downside, as far as the "daily" part is...
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What Do You Want to See in the Next Version of No Film School? (Open Thread)
It's been almost three years since I launched this site in its present form; the design as it is now is the same as it was then. Aesthetically I don't mind it, but there are a lot of functions and...
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No Film School is Hiring Bloggers, a Distribution/Marketing Writer, and a...
UPDATE: applications are now closed. We'll be responding this month (in January February), but give us some time to review them all. Thanks for your interest! Want to write about something you love,...
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No Film School's Top 10 Posts of 2012
You might still be celebrating the new year where you live (or recovering from the effects), but right now we'd like to take this opportunity and look back at some of the most popular posts from 2012....
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Behold Our New No Film School Logo! Plus We're Partnering with FreshDV to...
Behold our new logo! While our complete site redesign is still a ways off, we're premiering this new logo, very cleanly designed by David Ceraso, right away on our present site. Read on for some...
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Q: What are the Latest and Greatest Tools Filmmakers Need to Have Right Now? A:
Thanks to David Branin and Karen Worden of the great indie film show Film Courage for having me on recently. Given this website covers a lot of the "latest, greatest tools" in filmmaking, this...
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From 0 to 2 Million Pageviews* a Month: The History of No Film School
If you're at all curious as to how this site came about, why it exists, and what the early days were like, here's an interview our friends at Film Courage did with me about the origins of No Film...
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Coming Soon: The All-New No Film School
"What do you want to see in the next version of this website?" We asked in 2011. We asked again in 2012. We heard you loud and clear, and we were hoping to launch the new version in 2013. We could've...
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Welcome to the New No Film School!
Today, we are relaunching No Film School as the leading worldwide community of filmmakers, video producers, and independent creatives. The new No Film School is where filmmakers can learn from each...
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'FRAUD' Twists Found Footage to Create a New Vision of Reality
Entirely made from YouTube clips found online, FRAUD turns home-movie banality on its head. [Ed. note: If you haven't seen the film yet, you may want to see it before reading so all is not revealed....
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Is 'Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood' Tarantino at His Most Meta?
We all know Quentin Tarantino is one of the most meta directors of all time. But is Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood his most meta film to date? It's easy to pick a Quentin Tarantino film out of a...
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