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I\u2019m sure many a weekend warrior has gone into the Memorial Day<\/strong> stretch with camera in hand and team in tow so they could take advantage of three consecutive days to shoot scenes to their hearts\u2019 content. I\u2019m also sure many are biting their lips in frustration this Memorial Day as ongoing social distancing has thwarted their recent plans. Since there are many aspects to the filmmaking process that can still be practiced while stuck at home such as increasing one\u2019s working knowledge of it, the Central Illinois Film Commission<\/span><\/strong><\/a> has stepped up with a useful alternative. The Springfield<\/strong> group is hosting a panel discussion via Zoom<\/strong> tomorrow, Saturday, May 23, 1-2:30 p.m.<\/strong>, called \u201cMicrobudget Filmmaking in Central Illinois<\/strong>\u201d and it will be moderated by Laura Richter<\/strong> of Spencer Films<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, also based in the capital city. Each hour is to be punctuated by a major \u201cp\u201d of how a movie comes together \u2013 pre-production, production, post-production \u2013 and delve into subtopics that every media storyteller might want to better understand. Guests in the program include John Isberg<\/strong> of Swede Films<\/span><\/strong><\/a> in Urbana<\/strong>, Kimberly Conner<\/strong> of Predestined Arts & Entertainment<\/span><\/strong><\/a> in Springfield, and Ben Harl<\/strong> of Silver Compass Studios<\/span><\/strong><\/a> in Decatur<\/strong>, all of whom have genre features in the works \u2013 a throwback slasher, a contemporary thriller, and a comedy-horror pastiche, respectively \u2013 that will commence filming when pandemic restrictions are eased enough to allow all the logistics to come together. Click here to read the Facebook<\/strong> event outlining details about the panel.<\/span><\/a> This follows a similar outreach led by Isberg for his Workshop Films Collective<\/span><\/strong><\/a> in which he connects members and speakers every week using Zoom to keep them engaged. If you are also interested in how the Chicagoland film community is processing the shutdown, a similar Zoom session cosponsored by Independent Film Alliance Chicago<\/strong> and the Chicago International Film Festival<\/strong>, \u201cIndie Film Town Hall<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u201d will go live next Thursday, May 28<\/strong>, from 12<\/strong> to 1 p.m.<\/strong> A recording of that will be shared on YouTube<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n ~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n ~~~~~<\/p>\n The Central Illinois Film Commission wants to tell you about how filmmakers make it happen in downstate Illinois. Interested in inside knowledge? There’s a Zoom event on Saturday afternoon for that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,395,2125,53,2198],"tags":[396,2200,2201,2202,212,2199,1505],"class_list":["post-13501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcast-dates","category-central-ill-commission","category-cinema-discourse","category-educationclasses","category-zoom-du-c-u","tag-central-illinois-film-commission","tag-illinois-filmmaking","tag-low-budget-filmmaking","tag-panel-discussion","tag-predestined-arts-entertainment","tag-silver-compass-studios","tag-swede-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"