They all had to start somewhere, from low to no budget films and artsy pretensions, to out of the ballpark Oscar winning hits: Famous Filmmakers & First Features Kathryn Bigelow The Loveless (1982) Country: US Distribution: Atlantic Releasing Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, co-wrote and directed her debut […]
Starting your own production company can be overwhelming in the film industry. You’ll be able to produce TV and film projects that inspire you from within. While anyone can start a production company, many actors and filmmakers already have it in their mind to start a company at some point, the process is complex itself. […]
Hands up if you wanna be a director? Ok, that’s quite a lot of you. Now, my next question is: why? The truth is directing is a really tough career, there are actually more professional footballers working in the UK than there are directors, though strangely people laugh more if I say I want to […]
I wrote this way back in 2012 when Breaking In As A Film Director was very different from the apocalyptic future we now face. My point is this: Some of these are no longer valid. The old systems have fallen away. View this as a wonderful opportunity to reivent the ‘wheel’. And if you want […]
An abridged extract from his widely acclaimed book: “Raindance Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking“ Classical film editing has developed a methodology which structures the work process into precise stages – a methodology that is very similar in every country around the world. Each stage has its own procedure and order: 1. Logging The dailies or rushes are […]
The Raindance Postgraduate Film Degree is offered in partnership with DeMontfort University. Here are the 10 guiding principles supporting this unique degree: 1. Derived from experience: Your current skills, knowledge and understanding are valuable and transferable to the creative industries. Your work-life experience will guide you as you move into this most revolutionary postgraduate film […]
This brilliant and typically sassy post was written by the then Raindance filmmaker-in-residence Christian Bell in 2012. It’s still highly relevant today. You know what marks a film out as amateur more than anything else? Shoddy, shoddy location sound. Enter the unsung sound editors! And are there more than one way we get abused? In […]
I was sitting around contemplating the careers of so many of my friends and acquaintances, when I had a moment of clarity: why not write up the mistakes and pitfalls so many screenwriters and filmmakers fall into? And title it: 16 Ways Screenwriters And Filmmakers Fail. I know I’m going to get into a lot […]
You don’t always have to speak grammatically – we all understand what they mean when a public figure says something like “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” However, we do raise an eyebrow (or at least some of us do) if we hear “Please give the information to John or to I.” The incorrect […]
WARNING – Spoilers Ahead Parasite is a film about lines and boundaries and how members of society are confined within the societal entrapment as they scramble to escape. Bong Joon-Ho’s critically acclaimed South Korean thriller, investigates physical, social, political, and emotional realism in a hyper-dramatic style. Socio-economic boundaries are expressed physically throughout the film, represented […]
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