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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 9:00 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Tampa Bay Film Updates, And The Online Film Festival Expands
Tampa
Bay Film is now being updated. It received a graphics update
back in October when the Tampa Bay Film 
Online
Film Festival stand-alone site launched. The content, however, desperately
needs an update (I found many, many links in the directories leading to
the old online film festival, among other links leading to old files).
The Tampa Film Scams section needs to be launched, too. It will be built
using advanced scam fighting database technology from the Florida Modeling
Career site, which utilizes a scam scenario-based front-end as well as
conventional menus. The new film scam fighting database will also have
an anecdote / add your experience section, which was never a part of the
old scam databases, and had an interesting origin. In one of their stories
about my Tampa Bay Modeling site, which interviewed myself along with
two models who I supplied for the story, FOX 13 news anchor Kelly
Ring remarked on the air that Tampa Bay Modeling had a section
where you could “add your own experience with modeling scams”.
At the time, Tampa Bay Modeling was utilizing a first-generation modeling
scam database which was derived from the 2003 Independent Modeling modeling
scam database, which is effective, but outdated. It did not have this
feature. I admit, however, that this is a good idea, and I would have
never guessed that the news would give me an idea that would be useful
(makes you wonder, though, if those news producers did much research when
they prepared the copy for the teleprompter). A week after the story aired,
I began developing the new second-generation scam fighting database format
and scam fighting resource, and this feature was added into the design
document as a major feature. So, all new second-generation scam databases
and scam fighting resources will have this feature. Tampa Bay Modeling
will have a new second-generation modeling scam database and scam fighting
resource installed after Florida Modeling Career gets the prototype up
and running. Other sites that will receive this new resource will be Tampa
Bay Acting, Tampa Bay Film, Tampa Bay Photographers, Independent Modeling,
Advanced Model, Independent Acting, and a few more sites which I am not
at liberty to talk about at this time (you’ll find out more in the
next year or two).
Oh, and count on some more news stories when I get around to doing them.
So many subjects. So many sites. So many different projects. Some have
told me (among them news people) that I am a great source of many news-worthy
subjects. I wouldn’t be surprised if my projects, and I myself,
are regular features on all of the Tampa news programs from now and for
the rest of my life.
Ah, on to other things. The Tampa
Bay Film Online Film Festival! God, the site has evolved
again in just the last few days. The site is incredibly popular, and has
exploded in size, and in capabilities in the last week! Some of the new
films are great, and really make going to film festival events to see
them rather pointless, especially when the audience is limited there and
many people don’t network much at Tampa film festival events (I
tried to, a few times, and you seldom have time to give out more than
three or four cards).
I also added some more content to the online film festival with a new
help section and other goodies. We just added an on-site online film festival
blog (the OFF Blog), and will be adding an indie film “dumpster”
channel (for the films that suck), as well as a indie film production
channel (for filmmakers who want to learn about indie film production,
promotion, etc, without being ripped off by those so-called indie film
workshops- the latter not really being a part of the online film festival
as far as showing actual indie films, but the site is set up to support
such a feature and Tampa Bay Film can link to the tutorial films in this
section, too, so it will be done. This is another unique way in which
the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival is evolving beyond its original
design scope, and it is truly exciting!). The site is expanding rapidly,
and now has the best lineup of indie films out of any Tampa film festival.
It’s only going to get better. The e-mails that I’ve been
getting regarding the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival have been surprising
too. The e-mails have been overwhelmingly supportive! There are a lot
of people stating that they are bored with Tampa film festivals, and it
is “about time that someone came up with a cool online film festival”.
Others say that Tampa film festivals are ineffective, and especially don’t
do much for Tampa indie films. They are very excited to see our online
film festival, and are eager to see what it will do for Tampa indie film
and indie film elsewhere.
Now, I am not one to say that the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival
is superior to Tampa film festivals in every way, but it is more cost-effective,
offers filmmakers more exposure, and is a much better viewing experience
because films can be skipped if they suck. Films can also be paused, viewed
again, and viewed in any order the viewer wishes. It’s convenient,
too. You can view the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival at any time,
every day, day and night, and from anywhere with an Internet connection
(just the other day, a viewer claimed that they watched several films
on the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival on their IPhone at the airport-
that’s cool!). The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival has many
advantages over Tampa film festival events.
I will say that it will be very interesting to see the effect that the
Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival will have on Tampa film festival events
in 2009. I’ll predict that the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival
will prove to be serious competition for them all. The Tampa Bay Film
Online Film Festival may even put a few of them out of business (hopefully,
the overblown and pretentious Gasparilla Film Festival, a large Tampa
film festival with aspirations to be another Sarasota Film Festival, will
be one of them. In my opinion, we do not need this Tampa film festival,
as it does not seem to be geared to support Tampa indie film, although
I am impressed by their branding and marketing).
Now that I have stated this, I will say that there are a few advantages
that a Tampa film festival event has over the Tampa Bay Film Online Film
Festival, but I won’t say what they are right now. Let’s just
say that I am well aware of what they are, and there are some projects
in the works that will take advantage of those benefits to enhance other
active projects. I will also say that the advantages that the Tampa Bay
Film Online Film Festival has over Tampa film festival events is dramatically
greater than the few advantages that the Tampa film festival events have
over it. Like I said, expect some serious competition for Tampa film festivals
from the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, with crippling results.
Some of these Tampa film festival events will not survive, and such is
the way of progress, I suppose.
Revelation? The Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival was never intended
to be a stand-alone project, although it now is located on a stand-alone
web site. It is but one component of a much larger machine. This machine
will decimate the competition and will be unstoppable, and it’s
nice to see that the individual components of this business machine can
effectively compete with what is already out there all by themselves.
There is a master plan. There is a main objective with all of this, and
this is one of many steps toward the overall objective. With me and my
projects, nothing is ever as simple as they seem to be. I’ve never
been short-sighted, that’s for sure. Most of my plans extend over
years, and sometimes over decades. Some won’t be fulfilled until
long after I am gone, and I will definitely live forever in that respect.
Say, did anyone know that I own a Tampa event planning company and a Tampa
stage production company, both with revolutionary theme event and stage
production concepts and technologies? I do, and now you know! How does
this fit in? I can’t say, but the future looks excellent for me
and my allies. The invasion has already begun.
Before
I go, I would like to touch on the subjects of these blogs that I publish
and maintain. I have over a half dozen now, and I could have as many as
ten by 2009. I will write a little about the ones that you may be aware
of. My main Passinault blog is about to move to another web site. The
Passinault blog (this will not be the name of the new site) is currently
my largest, at over 600 pages, and all the past posts will remain archived
on the Frontier Society site. The new blog will be highly organized, with
many of the posts not being so long-winded. As I will be busy, some of
the posts on the new blog will be shorter and to the point, kind of like
bulletins. I will try to write posts daily, although the posts may be
published once a week, primarily for security reasons and logistical purposes
(I will not have time to format the blog and upload every day). Once in
a while, however, I will treat my readers to my typical multi-page posts.
I know that my readers enjoy those.
Both the Tampa Photography Blog and the Tampa Photographer Blog have grown
large enough to be indexed like this one has, and this will be done shortly.
Also expect the tone to change gears and be more professional, too, just
like this one. I won’t be ranting much anymore on those blogs, or
on any others. Oh, and my Tampa
DJ Blog will be updated in the next few days, too, as I begin
to covert some of my GEN 3 audio cassette programs to MP3 files and convert
my massive CD library to MP3's. I will also be obtaining software and
additional sound equipment to begin production of my own original music,
and plan to continue my professional singing career, as well.
There is one blog that I am working on that no one knows about, but I
will reveal here. My Tampa Video Games web site, which has not launched
yet, will be centered around a video game blog! I’m not only an
indie film and film production expert, but I am a video game expert, too
(actually, I am an entertainment expert with a well-rounded range of experience
and professional expertise on all forms of entertainment). There a very
few professionals who are experts on both industries. Not only do I have
revolutionary indie film concepts, but you should see what I have in the
works for video games, too! I’ll say that some of the best research
in artificial life in the United States will be done in my labs, and this
technology will be utilized in video games as well as for the building
blocks f new forms of artificial intelligence.
My Tampa production company, Dream Nine Studios, will be making films
and video games, and will do excellent work many type of entertainment
production.
With that, I’m done for now. The next Tampa Film Blog post will
be about cheap indie filmmaking technology which is now available, and
some rather interesting points to be made about filmmaking. It should
be up as soon as tomorrow, followed by some intriguing posts about indie
film portfolios, and the evolved horror film. Don’t miss them!
Man, I really don’t want to post some of my best ideas, or even
hint about them. This will be my new challenge. I will endeavor to show,
and lead, by example before I tell.
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