Pacific Heartbeat in 30 seconds
A new PBS series Pacific Heartbeat. A diverse collection of five films featuring Pacific Island history, culture and music, coming soon to a PBS station near you.Read More
5 Tips For Cutting a Winning Fundraising Clip
Every film project needs a fundraising clip, no matter what stage of production or post. As a documentary editor, I feel like I spend as much time editing fundraising clips for filmmakers as actual films. And now with the growing popularity of crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter.com and IndieGoGo.com, and individual film websites, a good short video that gives a potential funder a solid idea of what your film is about is essential.
So the question is, what to show?
Here are five tips to consider when crafting your film’s fundraising clip.Read More
Hawaii Documentaries Sizzle for PIC
https://shirleythompson.com — The newest trailer we created for the good folks at Pacific Islanders in Communication features film by and about Hawaiians, and will be featured on their website and Facebook page, Read More
New Years Revolutions
More water. Less gluten.
More walking. Less driving.
More blogging. Less procrastinating.
More hiking. More dancing.
My friend Trayc calls them revolutions, instead of resolutions, which I really like. Like most folks, I always begin the year with at least one big goal. Last year I vowed to use less disposable plastic, and that shifted everything about the way I interact with the world of commerce. Read More
Happy Holidays from Shirley Thompson Editorial!
Aloha and much merriness from my little red edit room in the tropics to you and yours. It’s time to take a little break for the holidays, soak in this solstice time of renewal, rest, and regeneration…I’ll be back cut, cut, cutting away after the first of the new year. Thank you for all the great sharing and collaboration and inspiration you all give me throughout the year. I look forward to much more fun, creativity and juiciness in 2012. My gift to you…here is the 2011 version of my Aloha Holiday Mix for you to enjoy. Mele Kalikimaka!
Micronesian Films Highlighted in New Sizzle Video
I confess that when I began watching these films and working on this trailer, I searched Wikipedia for maps of Micronesia to learn where these small island nations are. There’s an amazing amount of history out in the Pacific, Read More
Pacific Islanders in Communications New Promo
Think you know Pacific Islanders? Well, there are so many stories, yet to be told. That’s the theme of this newest promo for Pacific Islanders in Communications, featuring the films that they fund and broadcast on public television. It was so great to get to watch literally dozens of the latest films executive produced by the good folks at PIC, and search for those “chicken-skin” moments that Read More
Editing Kukan
This little editor has been so busy making edits that she hasn’t blogged for THREE MONTHS. Thank goodness that she has friends and colleagues who blog. So I’m cheating…this is a re-blog…or whatever the blog equivalent of a Re-Tweet is. Read More
Living in Public: Addressing Privacy Fears About Your Online Posts
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Usually, it begins with a comment like this: “Oh, I could never risk putting something out there on the internet, and have it come back to haunt me years later. That stuff never goes away. Once it’s posted, it’s on the internet forever.” Lately, I’ve been having this conversation with certain clients, friends and fellow filmmakers who still are avoiding social media, because they fear that someone will post something unflattering about them, and they won’t be able to control it.Read More
Filmmakers Using the Web to Build a Brand
I am obsessed with social media. As a documentary filmmaker from the old fashioned school of long-form storytelling, I am completely taken with the newest form of telling a story: tweeting it in 140 characters or less on Twitter Or telling the ongoing saga of your life in status updates, photos and links on Facebook. A blog like this one is so old fashioned, really. It’s so 2008. But call me old school, I do like scribbling out a story, setting it up with a lead, even a rambling one like this one, and taking you, the reader, on a journey.
And Twitter and Facebook aren’t all that different really…Read More