Listen to François Truffaut's Big, 12-Hour Interview with Alfred Hitchcock (1962) Tuto Hyperlapse GH4. Listen to 12 Hours of François Truffaut Interviewing Alfred Hitchcock for Free. Cinephilia and Beyond. Sublimes double expositions de Dan Mountford. The Black and Blue | Filmmaking Tips for Camera Assistants. Archive - Sebas and Clim. 10 MORE Filmmaking & Cinematography Sites You Should Be Reading. These 10 filmmaking sites, ranging from the creative to the technical, will help you step up your game! My previous post on some of the best filmmaking sites was met with popularity, so I decided to add 10 more sites.
If you’re specifically interested in great web resources for post production check out my previous post here. The following 10 sites represent more of the best online resources to improve your skills and keep updated with the filmmaking industry. Some of the sites focus on gear, some on process, some on both. The list is in no certain order. If you have a favorite filmmaking website (or know one that didn’t make these lists) be sure to list it in the comments below! The Black and Blue Black & Blue offers real world tips for camera assistants but if you are wearing a lot of hats (doing a lot with little money) it will help you too. Indietips Indie Tips has articles/news/tutorials on the complete filmmaking process (writing, directing/producing, cinematography, editing). Watch: A Masterclass from Legendary Film Editor & Sound Designer Walter Murch.
As one of the most internationally renowned editors and sound designers in the world, Walter Murch carries a unique perspective on the craft of cinema — a master’s perspective that he generously shared at last year’s Sheffield Doc Fest. In his invaluable masterclass, a must-watch for every editor/sound designer alive, Murch talks about his body of work, including providing the editing and sound design on Apocalypse Now (for which he won an Oscar), how he works, and what techniques he’s picked up during his almost 50-year career. Walter Murch has had quite the illustrious career. He has worked as the sound designer on many of Francis Ford Coppola’s films, including The Rain People, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II & III, and Apocalypse Now.
He was also the first to be awarded an Oscar for editing done electronically (on an Avid system) for The English Patient. Though Murch gave this speech last year, the video wasn’t made available until a couple of days ago. Related Posts. 101 List. NextWaveDV. What Can These Akira Kurosawa Quotes Teach Us About Filmmaking? (Answer: Everything!) Akira Kurosawa is in a league of his own. To master filmmakers, like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Oliver Stone, he was the teacher, and often shared his knowledge with those who asked.
Flavorwire has published a few pieces of said knowledge in the form of Kurosawa’s greatest filmmaking quotes — ones that beautifully answer questions about the craft, advise us on storytelling, and remind us why we fell in love with cinema in the first place. Thanks to Flavorwire for sharing these quotes. If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter Kurosawa was the one that said a great director can take a great script and make a masterpiece, but a great director can’t take a bad script and make anything good. In order to write scripts, you must first study the great novels and dramas of the world. Don’t take life lying down Many filmmakers and storytellers say, “Write what you know,” which is an oft misunderstood piece of advice. Related Posts.
Indie Tips | Daily Indie Filmmaking Tips. Screenwriting Tips: How to Approach Genre as You Begin Your Script. A screenplay is a puzzle made up of pieces you cut yourself that you fit together to form a picture you make up as you go. And if a screenplay is a puzzle, think of genre as the box it came in. It has to be accommodating and accurate to the structure and picture of the story, otherwise, you make it hard on your audience. In an enlightening article, Raindance lists 10 techniques that sell scripts, 8 of which has something to do with genre. So, let’s take a look at genre from the perspective of both a buyer and a screenwriter, figure out how it can help or hinder your story, and finally, ways to add or change characteristics of your chosen genre in order to not only write a story that is fresh and original, but one that works well with audiences.
Establishing the genre of your screenplay should be done right at the beginning, because it helps you set up the scope and tone of your story before you’re too far in. Here are a few of the tips below: Find the right genre for the story idea. 40 Must-See Documentaries & Interviews on Filmmaking | A-BitterSweet-Life. Get Your First Act Written! This Animated Video with Pixar's Michael Arndt Shows You How. Some of the greatest pieces of screenwriting wisdom that I’ve come across in my journey of learning the craft have come from Pixar alumni.
Regardless of what kinds of stories you’re trying to tell, Pixar has offered many great tips on how to form the structure of your screenplay, and in this animated video, screenwriter Michael Arndt walks us through, step-by-step, how to construct the most difficult first act. So, if you’re currently struggling to get your screenplay off the ground, you’re gonna want to check this out! It doesn’t matter if you’re writing a psychological horror, live-action comedy, or emotionally charged drama, knowing and understanding basic story structure will help you become a better screenwriter (even if that just means knowing which rules you’re breaking). To be clear — there is no one right way to write a screenplay. What do you think about the video? Link: Michael Arndt on setting a story in motion — John August Related Posts. How to Clean a Camera Lens Without Damaging the Glass. Holding a lens worth a couple thousand dollars in your hand and being asked to clean it can be daunting.
You might be scared to scratch it or fingerprint it. Maybe you don’t have the right supplies. Or you may have no clue how to even approach cleaning a lens (Hint: using your t-shirt won’t work). What’s in this video? The best tools and supplies for cleaning lensesHow Rosco lens tissue can scratch a lensWhen you should remove a lens to clean itA dirty Minolta Super 8mm cameraAnd more In the video I mention a few products that I use. . , Pancro, Kimwipes , Dust-Off Plus (with Nozzle If you all enjoy this video and find it useful, let me know in the comments and I will make more video posts. How to Clean a Camera Lens – Transcript For those who would rather read the info from the video rather than watch it, here is a transcript: Today I want to go over something with you that I get a lot of requests for and that is how to clean a lens. The first is you’re going to want a flashlight. [End of video]
The Church of Comedy - Ten Commandments of Directing Comedy. Spring 2012 By David Dobkin I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be. For a guy who’s made a living for the past 20 years in comedy, that’s an odd thing to admit. In truth it’s more like Tourette’s than comedy. Like a million other kids, I found God when I saw Star Wars at 8 years old and decided I was going to disappear from my melancholy suburban life and live as a devout cleric in the great monastic discipline of making movies.
LAST LAUGH: Dobkin isn’t a funny guy himself, but knows what makes an audience laugh. Jump forward many years, and eventually the first door that opened for me was, very much by coincidence, in comedy … and when God opens a door for you in this monastery, you don’t renunciate. I had no training in comedy. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. I know, I know, there are more than 10, but those are the commandments, more or less. Hallelujah. Amen. Color as an Intrinsic Filmmaking Tool.