When done poorly music videos can just be a way to show off, sit down and have a tedious conversation or have a dance off between people for about three minutes. But at it’s best they can be as conceptual as some of the greatest movies and give abstract film making a run for its […]
Violence is one of film’s rogue and most controversial elements. Not to mention what was considered violent half a century ago has since been overshadowed by the machine gun gore of recent years. From war heroes to American gangsters to horrific murderers, film violence comes in all forms. Although more bloody movies are released every […]
Good sound matters. It beats good picture when shooting a dialogue heavy scene or film. Unless you have access to post dubbing stages for ADR (automated dialogue replacement) – you will be stuck with what you shot LIVE on the floor. STAY AWAY FROM TRAFFIC and TRAINS when shooting your dialogue scenes. STAY AWAY FROM […]
In 2015, many people’s attention has turned to a particular demographic that mainstream movies may not have taken into account so much. It just happens that this particular group makes up for half the world population. Starting with Patricia Arquette’s viral Academy Award speech, to comments made by the likes of Dame Helen Mirren, Meryl […]
The aim of Cinemetrics, a project created by graphic designer and coder Frederic Brodbeck, is to measure and visualise film data. Characteristics such as colour, dialogue, lighting and editing structure are analysed and transformed into graphical representations or as he calls it a digital ‘fingerprints’. Brodbeck created this as part of his final thesis at […]
It’s a simple question really. What value do you place on your skills as a screenwriter? This question arose for me recently when I was asked about helping an aspiring writer with a script. The submitted draft was extremely poor. Scene headers were missing, the writing was almost exclusively ‘tell’ and the story lacked coherence. […]
When done poorly music videos can just be a way to show off, sit down and have a tedious conversation or have a dance off between people for about three minutes. But at it’s best they can be as conceptual as some of the greatest movies and give abstract film making a run for […]
Bollywood has undeniably dominated the Indian film scene for as long as anyone can remember. But new independent Indian films, known as ‘indie’ films have started to emerge and are gaining traction. They have come out of India’s parallel cinema movement and are funded independently without the backing of any major studios. In 2013, several indie films gained […]
Guillermo Arriaga, is known for his multi-layered and non-linear narrative. You can book here for our exclusive masterclass with the Oscar nominated screenwriter this Summer. When asked if he was worried his stories were too complex, Arriaga answered: “That doesn’t worry me … Audiences are much more intelligent than we think. I think they’re beyond the capabilities […]
A Rube Goldberg machine is a machine which sets one thing off after another, to perform a simple task at the end, such as a photograph being taken/a banner falling etc… They can be quite complicated machines or quite simple, however usually not the latter! The machine is named after Rube Goldberg himself, of course, […]
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