{"id":264,"date":"2008-12-26T12:23:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T20:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2025-03-24T23:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T06:13:26","slug":"10-best-posts-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/10-best-posts-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Best Posts of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imageframe\" style=\"width:600px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/best-of-2008.jpg\" alt=\"best-of-2008\" width=\"600\" height=\"240\" class=\"attachment wp-att-265\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Of the 53 posts this year, here is a selection of favorite subjects covered on this blog.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/ira-glass-on-storytelling\/\">&#8220;You don&#8217;t want to be making mediocre stuff&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nLessons in quality control from NPR&#8217;s great Ira Glass<\/li>\n<li value=\"9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/09\/filmmakers-and-basecamp\/\">How Filmmakers Use Basecamp<\/a><br \/>\nBecause project management is key to low-budget filmmaking, this collaborative tool is still a favorite for me to refer producers to<\/li>\n<li value=\"8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/06\/red-one-camera_experience\/\">My First Red Camera Experience<\/a><br \/>\nThe Red is the hottest camera of the year and, after a half dozen more Red shoots, something that <a href=\"http:\/\/aaronproctor.com\/equipment\/\">I now know well<\/a><\/li>\n<li value=\"7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/07\/strike-tv\/\">Will you watch Strike.TV?<\/a><br \/>\nLaunched and lauded<\/li>\n<li value=\"6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/21\/dr-horrible-sing-along-blog\/\">Can &#8220;Dr. Horrible&#8217;s Sing-a-long Blog&#8221; Change the Way We Watch?<\/a><br \/>\nGuest post from long-time FWD:labs member, screenwriter Eric Szyszka, on the three episodes which were just now released online via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/\">CreateSpace<\/a>, Amazon&#8217;s new DVD distribution<\/li>\n<li value=\"5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/23\/salon-gathering-001\/\">Salon Gathering: First of many to come<\/a><br \/>\nThirteen meet-ups later, it&#8217;s still going strong<\/li>\n<li value=\"4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/20\/writers-block\/\">Writing through the block<\/a><br \/>\nGuest post from a new FWD:labs member, screenwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/artist\/james-granger\/\">James Granger<\/a>, who is fresh on the success of finishing and hustling a feature screenplay<\/li>\n<li value=\"3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/09\/slumdog-millionaire\/\">Tenacity: &#8220;Slumdog Millionaire&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nConsidered by many now as the best film of the year, &#8220;Slumdog&#8221; is inspiring to filmmakers and film lovers<\/li>\n<li value=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/jason-polan_criterion-collection\/\">Jason Polan&#8217;s Criterion<\/a><br \/>\nResearch on a dedicated (and friendly) artist, who commented privately appreciating the post&#8217;s thoroughness<\/li>\n<li value=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/02\/viral-political-commercials\/\">User-Generated Spots for Super Tuesday, not Super Bowl<\/a><br \/>\nExamples of the power of grassroots presidential politics and the success of related video content on YouTube<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Other favorites not make the list? <a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/archive\/\">Browse the archive<\/a> and comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the 53 posts this year, here is a selection of favorite subjects covered on this blog. &#8220;You don&#8217;t want to be making mediocre stuff&#8221; Lessons in quality control from NPR&#8217;s great Ira Glass How Filmmakers Use Basecamp Because project management is key to low-budget filmmaking, this collaborative tool is still a favorite for me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fwdlabs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7432,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/7432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}