http://www.titusfilms.com/blog Titus Films Blog Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:07:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Designis.ms blog recently made a post showing the work of Vincent Moon and his work doing, "Take Away Shots," where he films bands performing on-location. The style of filmmaking is very similar to that of Cinéma vérité, where what appears on screen is largely unaltered from how it occurred. ... http://www.titusfilms.com/blog/2009/10/08/increase-the-artistic-nature-of-your-concert-films/ John Kary and Tony Ontiveros recently shot a live video of the band dredg on their stop at The Riot Room in Kansas City, Missouri. The show has been made freely available in its entirety both on DVD and FLAC/MP3 Download. Check out a few samples from the show! DVD Torrent ... http://www.titusfilms.com/blog/2009/04/23/dvdflac-of-dredg-live-in-kansas-city-mo-march-16-2009/ "The Only Good Indian," directed by Kevin Willmott, has been selected as one of the 118 accepted entries among 9,000 submitted to screen at Sundance 2009. Our own Tony Ontiveros and Collin Martin worked on the film as Camera Assistant/Loader and Grip, respectively. The Only Good Indian is "[s]et in Kansas ... http://www.titusfilms.com/blog/2008/12/05/the-only-good-indian-accepted-to-sundance-2009/ I wrote this post in late January 2008, but it was lost in my archive of saved posts that were once started but never finished. I had some extra time recently and finished the review. I recently picked up the new album from The Mars Volta called "The Bedlam in ... http://www.titusfilms.com/blog/2008/06/12/the-mars-volta-the-bedlam-in-goliath-bonus-concert-footage-dvd-review/ Sigur Ros have posted their feature-length concert film on YouTube for free viewing in its entirety. You can view the entire film here. (PS: It's about 90-minutes long.) Some might say, yay, great, free! But if you saw the HD trailer I talked about earlier, the YouTube ... http://www.titusfilms.com/blog/2008/03/10/sigur-ros-post-feature-length-concert-film-on-youtube/ Start-up company Grand Central was bought-out by Google last year. You may have heard last week about how Google Gave All San Francisco Homeless a Free Voicemail through Grand Central. Well, Google recently opened the service as a private beta, and we were lucky enough to get in ... http://www.titusfilms.com/blog/2008/03/03/grand-central-phone-service-rocks/ Many of you are probably wondering what happened to the concert taping guide I began last fall. I was in debate when I first started the guide, whether to make it a blog series or to write it as a more in-depth e-book. Since starting it, I realized I wasn't ... http://www.titusfilms.com/blog/2008/02/17/update-on-the-concert-taping-guide/ The goal of every website is to provide content and services to its visitors. You probably look at your website daily from your computer to make sure it looks great. But not all web browsers display the web in the same way. Little nuances between browsers can sometimes make sites ... http://www.titusfilms.com/blog/2008/02/13/5-reasons-you-should-be-using-flash-video/ While 2007 CD sales were down 14% from 2006, digital downloads were up 50%. Record labels continue to struggle to develop new distribution models that take advantage of the digital revolution. Over the last year, fans have shown they are willing to sink money into digital intellectual property. The ... http://www.titusfilms.com/blog/2008/01/05/how-concert-films-can-produce-revenue-for-musical-artists/ Rolling Stone recently ran an article called The Death of High Fidelity: In the age of MP3s, sound quality is worse than ever. The article puts the buzz of "The Loudness War" of the audio enthusiasts into a mainstream magazine. While there have been plenty of articles already published in ... http://www.titusfilms.com/blog/2007/12/29/the-death-of-high-fidelity-music/