Today I wrote to a few people who have made low budget documentaries to see if they had any advice for me. These people were:

Evan Coyne Maloney – He runs the website “brain terminal” http://brain-terminal.com/ – he also created a doc on higher education. However there was no link that I could see from his website. Evan – You’re DVD’s link is a bad link!
Tom Naughton – He created the documentary “Fat Head” http://fathead-movie.com/ – I was really impressed with the cartoons / graphics he used in his film.
Michael Wilson – He created the documentary “Michael Moore Hates America” and blogs occasionally at Big Hollywood.

If any of them write me back I’ll let you know what they say (provided my e-mail works, of course).

I also started e-mailing different organizations in order to get free images / video that I might be able to use in my film. The companies I e-mailed today are:

Ford Motor Company
Apple
General Electric
DuPont
Boeing
Microsoft

What is great is that a lot of these companies seem to have media galleries that I think I can use. Microsoft, Apple and DuPont seem to fall into this category.

Boeing has a whole section on images. However they charge for their images. As I’m financing this thing myself I doubt I’ll be using them.

I’m going to start exploring government agencies as well starting tomorrow. Anything the government produces is usually public use. This is probably a better option for me although it’s good to know that I can potentially get a lot of images from corporations too.

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