About
I always cringe when I hear someone say “we’ll fix it in post”. This process is always more time consuming and expensive than expected. This is why establishing a proper workflow before “lights, camera and action” is essential. To this end, I’ve spent countless hours explaining digital production, post workflow and the deliverables process to anyone who cared to listen.
One day, after a near two-hour phone consultation with an aspiring filmmaker, a colleague suggested I write a book about this stuff. While I thought this was a great idea, I realized indie filmmakers need all they help they can get. Free information is good for the cause! So I built this website.
This project will always be a work in progress. If you have any ideas for improvement, please email them to me. I really appreciate your help!
I hope you learned a bit from these pages and thanks for visiting.
David Cummins
Founder
IndieRanch.com
dave@indieranch.com
Note: Indieranch.com is not affiliated with Indie Ranch Media. Inc.
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David Cummins, Digital Post Production Consultant
David is a twenty-year veteran of the Los Angeles postproduction industry. He started his career as a musician playing and producing rock and blues concerts in Southwest Florida. He then moved to Los Angeles and parlayed his musical skills to become the in-house video editor and producer for MCA Records. He also worked with Capitol, Motown and other record labels as a creative artist. He later founded West Post Digital, a high definition postproduction facility in Santa Monica, California.
David recently served as the digital lab supervisor on 127 Hours, the latest film by Oscar winner director Danny Boyle, shot entirely on location in Utah. Mr. Cummins worked with Mr. Boyle and the Slum Dog camera team, co-designing and managing the on-set media, editorial and postproduction workflow and digital data lab for the show.
David is also developing several 3D projects, including Strange Encounters-3D, a 3D film mocumentary shot on location at the Burning Man Festival. Visit http://www.strange-encounters-3d.com/
Dina Demetrius, Production and Project Financing Consultant
Dina Demetrius is a film and TV news producer, actress, and writer living in Los Angeles. After graduating with high honors from the University of Michigan, Dina went to Washington, DC where she used her still young experience in politics and video art production to write and produce a show on the U.S. military budget which aired on PBS nationwide. As a network journalist for ABC News, Dina has reported, written and produced over a thousand national and international stories, as well as investigative pieces, for such shows as Nightline, Good Morning America, Prime Time and World News Tonight. She has also produced entertainment news for Access Hollywood.
During her three years in Boston, Dina broke into the city’s active indie scene, collaborating with other guerilla filmmakers in numerous films as director, producer and actress. Her short film Plant Killer, shot on 16 mm and using live action, stop animation and hand-painted special effects on each frame earned her membership in the exclusive Boston Film/Video Foundation. In Los Angeles, Dina has continued her journalistic work in national broadcast and print, while starring in over 20 short films and writing two feature scripts. As president of Artemis Entertainment, LLC, she helped finance two independent features, The Prince and The Pauper, and The Kings of Appletown, both starring Disney’s Dylan and Cole Sprouse.
Dina consults on story structure and characters, film and TV production, and the process of film financing.
Dina DemetriusPresident, Artemis Entertainment, LLC
M. 310-714-9387
O. 310-929-7404
dina@indieranch.com
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