Adventure Film School

How to Build a Website in Under Two Hours

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Having an active presence online is an important element of your business – whether through a website, facebook page or twitter profile. If your business does not have an online presence, you are losing valuable business opportunities as well as customers.…
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Talent Versus Skill: What Separates the Good from the Great

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I have often wondered what it takes to be successful as a media artist / filmmaker / freelancer / entrepreneur. I’ve questioned whether specializing or expanding a skill set leads to more success. It’s a battle I struggle with everyday and I continually wonder if I would be at a different point in my career if I was to have specialized from the start.…
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How to Find Your Niche and Build Your Business

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Defining your niche market and establishing a clear picture of whom it is they are marketing to is critical in the overall health of your business. Defining your niche does not narrow your sales or cut into profit margins, rather, it helps define your client base.…
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Instamic – The GoPro of Microphones?

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Instamic is microphone set to change the way you record audio. As adventure filmmakers, we can take our cameras into almost any environment, but it can be challenging to capture audio. Instamic aims to do for audio what GoPro did for cameras: + Small and portable?…
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Intern Adventures: 3 Lessons From My First Days on the Job

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The GoPro Mountain Games was my first real test as the new intern. The morning of June 1st, with 6 bags strapped to the top of the car, 5 people strategically placed in seats, 4 pounds of car snacks and 1,258 miles ahead of us, the Ford Explorer rolled reluctantly out of the driveway bound for Vail.…
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700

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“I was looking for no less than a new way of living in this world for our entire society,” says Clay Shank. “Like, ‘What’s the alternative to this capitalistic system that we have here? Today, we bring you “700,” the story of Clay Shank’s ambitious goal to find a new way of life and his unlikely method: skateboarding 700-miles through the state of California, hiking the 210-mile John Muir Trail, climbing Mt.…
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Intern Adventures: Inspiration at 5Point Film Festival

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Storytelling has the power to take us to a different place and imprint a picture in our minds that stays with us and moves us in ways we didn’t know were possible. There are certain films that have the ability to challenge and motivate us and help us to see things through a new lens.…
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Intern Adventures: Finding True North

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January 10th 2015. It had been two years since I had graduated with a BA in Anthropology and Museum Studies and I had spent those last couple of years setting free the pent up travel bugs that had accumulated throughout my college career.…
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Painkillers and Perspective

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“All of my friends kayaked. All of the trips we went on were kayaking trips. When not kayaking, we talked about kayaking,” writes Sarah Paul. In the four years since she left home, Sarah had constructed her whole identity around whitewater kayaking.…
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Live from 5Point Vol. 8

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In our fifth annual Live from 5Point Film Festival, we interview Frank Sanders and Tommy Caldwell. Frank spent his youth climbing on the East coast. His path took a turn in 1972, when he hitchhiked west and saw Devil’s Tower for the first time.…
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