Tarantino. Daniel Craig. Keira Knightley. Now that I’ve got your attention, let me introduce a topic that scares filmmakers and screenwriters: Money. Especially how filmmakers talk money. How Much Money? I know it’s hard to decide how much to ask for. When you are talking about how to price your time, your services or your […]
I would say that my journey to becoming a filmmaker started before I was born, when my parents arrived in the UK as migrants in the late-50s and early-60s. They were a part of the first wave of post-war migration, and the experiences I had growing up was coloured by the things that I witnessed […]
Some people think that documentaries are easy to make as you just need real-life footage and a topic to discuss. But that’s not the case, and there is a lot more effort and brainstorming to film a captivating documentary. The main factor is your film-making education which can determine your success or failure. The impact […]
Photo by Thomas William on Unsplash With digitalisation growing rapidly and technology advancing every day, one career that has attractively crawled out of the well is filmmaking. With a smartphone in every hand, every minute a film is made. There are so many people who aspire to become filmmakers and yet end up in a […]
I was once told to make a documentary, you must need it like you need to breathe. Filmmaking for Change, 2nd Edition: Make Films That Transform the World, may seem like it is advocating a goal beyond our reach, but in our current times it really is starting to feel sometimes as if we need […]
Documentary films now account for half the films at Raindance Film Festival. Online streaming platforms, from the majors to the niche are focussing on documentaries too. New channels are increasingly relying on short form documentaries to round out their content delivery broadcasts. I’ve learned that there are 10 steps to a successful documentary. Making a […]
Nina Kojima speaks to us about making her Brexit Documentary during the Covid pandemic. It’s been a year like no other. People have died, businesses have gone bust, kids have been off school – the world has turned into the kind of drama only the creators of the Hollywood blockbuster ‘Contagion’ could have predicted. But […]
Everybody flies has been a massive success… Where does the air you breathe on a plane come from? Do you know? I was ill health retired as an airline Captain from exposures to contaminated air on aircraft. Something passengers are never told about and know very little about. When you last flew did they tell […]
I have dreamt of directing a feature film for over 20 years. Having finally completed a ‘no budget’ feature, it had a theatrical premiere and limited cinema release this December and was released on demand on the 14th and will even be on supermarket DVD shelves on the 28th. So with a ‘no budget feature’ […]
The film industry is often at the forefront of technological advancements which inspire the filmmaking revolution. The impact of technology is visible almost in all segments of film-making and production – narrative techniques, equipment, graphics, sound effects, and more. The history of film is filled with advances that have changed the way of how a […]
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