Pan Left Productions

Recently I came across a great resource online called TubeMogul. Located at http://www.tubemogul.com, this web service allows you to upload a video once, and have it be 'launched' simultaneously and automatically on a multitude of video-sharing sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, MySpace (ugh), and more. Anyone who has wrestled with all the effort it takes to distribute their video work to all the social networking sites out there will appreciate this tool. Tube Mogul also allows you to track views and other statistics about your uploaded videos on all these sites.

I'm in perhaps the most exciting yet frustrating stage in my work on the documentary about war tax resistance that I'm making. I'm basically trying to make sense of all the footage and figure out how to present it in a compelling way - the big question is: what is the story? I've been struggling with this for about 4 years, ever since I started thinking about the challenges of making a film about this subject - Put another way, how do I tell the story of war tax resistance in a way that's interesting and exciting?

Since things have been somewhat slow on the blog I thought I would start a new "category," something others can contribute to over time: Tips and Tricks. As we were discussing at the last Pan Left meeting, there should be more skillsharing and "quality control" within our collective - constructive feedback on works in progress, mentoring, checklists, and the like. This helps us all improve and also keep the Pan Left name as a mark of something people know is great.