Game of Thrones. The French drama La Haine makes unusually good use of a restroom · Scenic Routes. The Coen Brothers: POV Shots. 9 FILMMAKING PROJECT IDEAS. The natural response to any kind of creative block (writer’s or otherwise) is to wait and wonder when it’ll dissipate? Or, we grab the popcorn, sit on your butts, and start consuming inspiration through the TV, computer, phone, etc. You may even be doing that right now… Inspiration is never a negative, but you might be setting yourself back substantially if inspiration isn’t paired with direction. Filling your head with content can set a spark, or build into a pile of stuff you like, but have no real connection to. The best way to remedy Filmmaking Block is to get up and DO! Creativity and productivity are muscles: they’re only as strong as you make them and, without exercise, your muscles won’t operate at full potential .You’ll miss out on a lot of opportunities, ideas, and growth.
Here are a few of my favorite, time-tested ways of maintaining a sharpened set of tools while you’re waiting for a big idea or job. 1. If need be, ask the artist’s for permission to film. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. VISUALIZING SCENES THROUGH FLOOR PLANS; ‘INTERIORS’ PRESENTS A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO FILM COMMENTARY. I love exploring unique takes and interpretations of film. Last week, we looked at artist Federico Babina who has interpreted the aesthetics of directors through architecture and the personality of actors through their living space. Today, another way of looking at film. Interiors is an online publication that explores architecture and film, breaking down a scene by creating floor plans to illustrate the moment.
Where are the actors located? Where are they going? What is their action? Source: design boom Written by Geoff Todd Geoff Todd is a filmmaker from Portland, Oregon where they eat things out of carts and ride bikes to strip clubs. 50 weeks to learn film | Mark Cousins’ Dispatches. From our December 2014 and January 2015 issues. Credit: Arthur Chiverton (arthurchiverton.com) for Sight & Sound. Should we plant a bomb under film school courses and see where the pieces fall? Might we fire university film studies courses into the sky, on a magnesium rocket, and see the smithereens fall to earth, like the man who fell to earth, like the climax of Nicolas Roeg’s Eureka, when Jack McCann finds his gold? Lots of good things happen in film schools and on film courses, which are often taught by great people, but they have often, too, lost their senses. Literally. They teach about equipment and production, when their job is really to awaken in students a sensory response to the world.
Below are my answers. My course would be called ‘50 weeks to learn film’. And what would the themes be? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. Phew. The Unloved - The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. Jeff Bridges Took Incredible Panoramic Photos On The Set Of Every Movie For The Last 35 Years - Airows. Embed this infographic on your site! <a href=" src=" alt="The Psychology Of Fight Club" width="500" border="0" /></a><br />Source: <a href=" Counseling Schools</a> Fight Club’s narrator’s illness is the manifestation of trite and tedious modern life. Watch capitalism push fight club members to the edge in the following steps: Board One(insomnia) Board Two(dissociative identity disorder) Side one Redemption through violence: get a rush Who is Tyler Durden?
New Player Joins: Tyler Durden game piece placed at the same place Side two Apartment blown up, join Project Mayhem What’s your hand? Cultural Influence Sources. Marquette-Les-Lille. 11 Things You Didn't Know About 'Fight Club' If you're a super fan who does not talk about "Fight Club," you might as well read about it. You probably already know that there's a Starbucks cup in almost every scene, Tyler Durden had a split second FBI warning parody and that author Chuck Palahniuk prefers the movie to his own book. But we went deep into forgotten interviews and profiles, pulling words right from the cast, crew and writers, to find those trivia facts you truly did not know about the movie "Fight Club.
" 1. The Narrator was filmed to look like he was turning into "Gollum" as the movie progresses and the power of Tyler Durden takes hold. In an interview with The Yale Herald in 1999, Edward Norton explained the two different transformations of Tyler Durden and his Narrator character: We decided together that I was going to get very thin.
According to Norton, the Narrator was also based off of Holden Caulfield. 2. Image: Chuck Palahniuk Facebook 3. 4. 5. Image Left & Top Right: Fight Club Facebook. 6. 7. Image: Getty 8. 9. 15 Great Single Location Movies. Worth a look: Independent films 2014. The Top 50 Foreign Films of the Last Decade. It is quite clear that mainstream cinema no longer applies just to Hollywood blockbusters, or the odd British comedy. With the advent of mass home cinema in the last decade, and the increasing availability of pretty much anything and everything on DVD, Blu-ray, or streaming services like Netflix, world cinema has finally crossed the divide of being the preserve of the connoisseur, or the type of thing you’d stumble on late at night on TV. In the last ten years, world cinema has made a massive impact on film-of-the-year lists, and many people’s personal favourites.
Starting from 2002 and ending here in 2012, it’s safe to say that you’ll have seen many of the films below, and enjoyed them simply as great pieces of filmmaking, regardless of where they came from. If, however, you are in any doubt of the utter brilliance of world cinema, then take your time to read the list below, and pick a few to watch that interest you. I guarantee you won’t be disappointed. 50. 49. 48. 47. 46. 45. 44. 43. Top Ranked Films (2003 - 2013) Steven Soderbergh Creates Silent, Black & White Recut of Raiders of the Lost ... FLOATING CINEMA.
Films I need to watch... ShowFilmFirst. Empire Film Studies 101 | Everything you ever wanted to know about filmmaking but were afraid to ask | Empire. How the year 1999 changed cinema forever. It's not an entirely perfect science, as you're going to discover, to determine one year as a turning point in modern cinema. And yet for those of us who lived at the multiplex and assorted smaller screening houses in 1999, and looking back at it now, it all feels like quite a surreal, sudden changing of the guard too place. The ramifications of what happened at the movies in 1999 still continue to be felt today too, across blockbuster cinema and smaller productions. Furthermore, and this is one we've not discussed, 1999 was arguably the last stand for mid-budget studio pictures. And it was also the year where this lot happened... 1999 changed the way films were marketed We talked recently, when we looked at how unusual films got through the studio system, about Warner Bros' conundrum with 1999's The Matrix.
It would be fair to say that even big blockbusters now owe a degree of their marketing to the way Artisan originally sold Blair Witch. 1999 changed the way action cinema was made 1999? Nicholas Cage Freak-Out Montage.