Can Luck Be Created?
Make Luck Happen As our regular readers known, the mission of Thrillumentary is to engage in a movie process experiment inspired by the frugal working process of the classic cult movie, “Night of the Living Dead” made in 1968 made with virtually no budget yet went on to be a great success. One might think […]
Yianni Stamas Shares Insights into Today, December 18, International Migrants Day
New Beginning Thrillumentary as a genre can often represents the frightening side of humanity, but today, December 18 is “International Migrants Day” is hopefully a celebration of light. We go inward over the scary and frightening ordeals that over 271,000,000 migrants bravely face when constructing their new existence, coming from all over the world. Migrants […]
How To Digitally Transform Learning from the Thrillumentary Model
Thrillumentary for Home Business Achievers. As some of you know we embarked on a project we called “Thrillumentary” that was a thriller done in a documentary style. The goal of the undertaking was to show that a movie could be made by just one person and whatever actors were involved. In many ways it was […]
Seeking a Technique
If you have been following this blog for any length of time then you know we are, on an ongoing basis, seeking to build a technique. Here are some thoughts we have had about this lately. What is a technique anyway? Some define it as: “…a way of carrying out a particular task, especially the […]
To Make Art or Not to Make Art?
Call To Action Filmmaking, including the “Thrillumentary” style, can be a great tool for marketing and there is no reason to feel bad about using it. I know I, in my previous life as a filmmaker, would have feelings of guilt whenever I would use the medium to generate responses in an audience, especially if […]
Thrillumentary Course Revisited
As many of you know from reading this blog, Thrillumentary is a genre that is part thriller and part documentary and is a process that was documented with our online course with new installments daily. We received flack from some who thought we should never take it down from the internet. The reason we removed […]
The Fans Speak with a Question About Judith O’Dea
A question we get asked frequently is: “Did you really interview Judith O’Dea fore before you did the Thrillumentary Movie Experiment?” Our answer is, “Yes of course.” And Ms. O’Dea gave us some very valuable information about the inner workings of this extremely low budget production. Judith O’ea played Barbara in the original 1968 version […]
Your Right Brain Creativity
Both Sides You have likely heard that your right brain holds the key to your creativity and the arts, while your left side of your brain is more focused on logic, science and mathematics. Truth be told, both have everything to do with BOTH sides of your brain. Right Needs Left You need both sides […]
Coronavirus Feeling Caged
Lockdown It’s a horror film of sort. The kind where a disease is spread or could spread unless something is done about it. Of course, at this point the disease has spread and many of us are in lockdown. Precautions For some being in quarantined makes them feel caged. There is a strong desire to […]
Continuing to Analyze the Thrillumentary Project
A Little Known Fact A little known fact that as the days passed both before the shoot and after, I was speaking into a camera lens every night creating the video curriculum for those who had signed up on our eLearning site to track the progress and possibly apply the techniques to their own projects. […]