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	<title>various verbiage &#187; film-making</title>
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		<title>Getting the Best out of your DSLR</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2011/09/18/getting-the-best-out-of-your-dslr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some Tips/Tricks I&#8217;ve found that help me get good imagery. I&#8217;ve fielded enough &#8220;how do you get shots like that&#8221; questions, I figured I&#8217;d write it up&#8230; Enjoy! Tip/Trick #1: keeping the camera on ‘P’/”Program” mode effectively turns your expensive DSLR into a really expensive &#038; awkward ‘point&#038;shoot’. o P/Program Mode is basically ‘safe’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of &#8220;Columbiana&#8221; &amp; the &#8216;solid-B movie&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2011/09/08/in-praise-of-columbiana-the-solid-b-movie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I love most of Luc Besson&#8217;s work&#8211; from the brilliance of the (original) &#8220;La Femme Nikita&#8221; and &#8220;Leon&#8221;, to the solid action&#8217;ers &#8220;Taken&#8221;, &#8220;Wasabi&#8221;, &#8220;District B13&#8243;, &#038; even &#8220;Kiss of the Dragon&#8221; (having a young daughter myself really makes the last 1/3 of that movie work brilliantly). And hey- give Besson props for &#8220;Angel-A&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does your Shot &#8216;Work&#8217; ?</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2009/04/05/does-your-shot-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s start w/ the Mechanics: a) Focus. Can you see their eyes (or most-important eye), CLEAR &#038; CRISP -there&#8217;s no fall-back; everything else can be blurred, but NOT the eyes&#8230; b. Light. Can you SEE what&#8217;s important, &#038; it&#8217;s picked-out clearly -Key: can i pick-out the salient details -Fill: are the surroundings lit too, (keeping) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SF 2007 48Hr Film Fest!!!</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2007/06/27/sf-2007-48hr-film-fest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey&#8211; our 7minute film premiered at the San Francisco 48Hour Film Fest last nite, &#038; it rocked!!. We got a ton of applause, laughter (at the right parts), &#038; congrats&#8217; afterwards&#8230; So while it&#8217;s fresh, here&#8217;s a bit of hard-won wisdom[sic]: Pre-production: 1) get clear roles assigned, w/ lines-of-command &#038; deliverables 2. test test test [...]]]></description>
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		<title>300 &#8220;SPAAAAAAAAR-TAAAAAAA!!!!&#8221;&#8216;s&#8230; at the IMAX!</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2007/03/27/300-spaaaaaaaar-taaaaaaas-at-the-imax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHOAAAA! &#8220;300&#8243; *rocked*!!! &#8230;they got the martial-stance/worldview *right* &#8230;they got the training *right* &#8230;they got the martial arts / fighting *right* &#8230;they got the battlefield dynamics *right* &#8212; even *better* than LOTR &#8230;they got the politics *right* &#8230;they got the religion/fight-the-gods *right* &#8230;they got the existentialism *right* &#8230;&#038; they even got the relationship [strong-female] *right* [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscars &#8217;07 &#8212; Ah gee, whoopie! &#8230;&amp; land of the living lesbians</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2007/02/26/oscars-07-ah-gee-whoopie-land-of-the-living-lesbians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the Academy, in its infinite wisdom, decided to &#8216;finally reward&#8217; Scorsese. Fine&#8230; let&#8217;s just call this one for &#8220;Raging Bull&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Taxi Driver&#8220;, &#038; be done with it. And bonus&#8211; maybe he&#8217;ll stop whining, stop appearing as &#8220;incessant film authority&#8221; in all those retrospectives, &#038; start working on an actual film 1/2-way as good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scorsese&#8217;s Oscar</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2007/01/18/scorseses-oscar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man that guy can bitch. For such a self-titled scholar, you&#8217;d think he&#8217;d somehow forgotten this little list of genius auteurs who never got an Oscar&#8230; Charlie Chaplin, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Orson Welles. What true filmmaker wouldn&#8217;t kill to be listed in their company? Scorsese absolutely, no-question, should have got his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Pretty-Great Recent Action Films</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2006/09/28/4-pretty-great-recent-action-films/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow&#8230; for whatever reason, just right about the time I completely give-up on H-wood&#8230; out comes something pretty excellent to watch. Last time that happened to me was &#8217;93, &#038; when out came &#8220;Tombstone&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Carlito&#8217;s Way&#8221;&#8230; which I watched in a single afternoon, sneaking from theatre to theatre, &#038; basically walked-out amazed. This time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Reel-time Death&#8221; in film</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2006/08/30/reel-time-death-in-film/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It all began so very easily to understand&#8211; life moves at 24fps, &#038; that life is Good. But then &#8220;Bonnie &#038; Clyde&#8221; happened, &#038; we got to see death in slow-motion&#8230; repeated, from various angles, in overlapping action. We got to wallow in it, &#038; it made it &#8216;hyper-real&#8217;. So much so that riots happened, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screenwriting &amp; Structure&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2006/08/30/screenwriting-tropes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My screenwriting teachers have always practiced &#8216;tough love&#8217;, &#038; my fave writer-on-screenwriting is Goldman. What they suggest is Asking: 1) What&#8217;s Happening, &#038; 2) Why [should] I Care? &#8230;&#038; keep asking that, from the first page on. Flip it open to any page, &#038; if the 2 answers aren&#8217;t immediately obvious, then there may be [...]]]></description>
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