Filmmaker Videos “This is a Generic Brand Video”: Satire or How-To? At McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, writer Kendra Eash published a poem, “This is a Generic Brand Video,” satirizing (or maybe just noticing?) the pleasant, fuzzy, vaguely neoliberal language of brand videos. Language like this: In today’s high speed environment, Stop motion… Read more Trailer Watch: Laundry Day Laundry Day In my “How to Find a Producer” article in our Fall, 2013 edition, I interviewed New Orleans filmmaker Randy Mack about his efforts to develop local producers, a challenge that arose when he embarked on his third feature, Laundry Day.… Read more Trailer Watch: A Most Wanted Man A few weeks back, we ran a trailer for The Drop, James Gandolfini’s final film. Trailer Watch: Regarding Susan Sontag Premiering at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival is Regarding Sontag, Nancy Kates’ documentary about one of the 20th century’s most compelling and important critics and public intellectuals.
Screenplay Basics - Scripped - StumbleUpon A Scripped Compendium by Johnathan Carr Traditional storytelling recounts past events, whereas screenwriting is locked in the present - thus you may not deviate from PRESENT TENSE. You may also be tempted to describe every inch of the world you're creating - don't! Take comfort in the idea that a screenplay is not meant to have any literary value. As you're writing, be mindful to preserve only the most important details: information that will advance the story. At the beginning of a feature film script, often but not always, the first line will be: FADE IN. While you can write a longer ACTION paragraph, think about keeping it under five lines at a time. In the ACTION line, be sure to capitalize SOUND EFFECTS, CAMERA DIRECTION and the first appearance of a speaking CHARACTER. Use a PARENTHETICAL to note an action the speaker is performing while speaking or if you want to indicate whom the speaker is addressing such as addressing a new character in mid-DIALOGUE. Think subtext.
I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script We know you've been working very hard on your screenplay, but before you go looking for some professional feedback, you might keep in mind the following piece by A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson. I will not read your fucking script. That's simple enough, isn't it? "I will not read your fucking script." What's not clear about that? There's nothing personal about it, nothing loaded, nothing complicated. If that seems unfair, I'll make you a deal. You're a lovely person. But I will not read your fucking script. At this point, you should walk away, firm in your conviction that I'm a dick. Yes. I was recently cornered by a young man of my barest acquaintance. I doubt we've exchanged a hundred words. Now, I normally have a standard response to people who ask me to read their scripts, and it's the simple truth: I have two piles next to my bed. Most people get that. Weeks, is the answer. And this is why I will not read your fucking script.
9 Nerdy Film Locations You Need to Visit in Your Lifetime | Underwire Wired.com is presenting a collection of galleries intended to help people become better geeks, nine items at a time. This is the seventh in the 9 for 9 series. - - - From Star Wars to Lord of the Rings, the spectacular geek destinations in the gallery above are some of the coolest movie locations on the planet. They're from films you've probably seen, but you'd have to be a well-traveled cinephile to have visited them all.We understand that to hit all these cinematic hot spots would be a time- and money-intensive affair, but we still made sure all the places on the list are actually locations that people can visit. Photos: Heike_Quosdorf/FlickrPhoto: Heike_Quosdorf/FlickrMarin County Civic Center (San Rafael, California) Location for: Gattaca (1997) Another of Frank Lloyd Wright's fantastic buildings, the Marin County Civic Center was also used by George Lucas in his 1971 film THX 1138.
Observations on film art The Adventures of Prince Achmed. Kristin (with some help from David) here: David and I have been offering this greatest-of-90-years-ago series almost as long as this blog has existed. I approached 1926 with the assumption that it would present a crowded field of masterpieces; surely it would be difficult to choose ten best films. Still, the Soviet directors were going full-tilt by this time and contribute three of the ten films on this year’s list. The Russians are coming Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Mother was a full-fledged contribution to the new Montage movement in the Soviet Union. Along with Potemkin, Mother was one of the key founding films of the Montage movement. As the Mother sits beside her husband’s dead body, her son, a participant in the 1905 failed revolution, comes in. The series of five shots goes by in a few seconds, and we are challenged to grasp that the guns are a real memory, while the shots of the man’s chest and her son’s anguished face are visions of what might happen.
ScriptShadow Top 10 things you didn’t know about Tarantino films - 7mate - Channel 7 Anyone who’s ever seen a movie by boy-wonder Quentin Tarantino knows that the director has a very unique – often copied but never matched – style. The quirky dialogues, the many pop-culture references, the winks and nods to other films and directors, the stylised violence, and the feet... Tarantino flicks are a hoot, no doubt about it. And because we’re sure you’re looking for an excuse to watch them all over again, here are the top 10 things you didn’t know about Tarantino films. Red Apple cigarettes For Quentin Tarantino, there is only one brand of cigarettes worth smoking: Red Apple. Female feet fetish Tarantino loves female feet. Captain America All the girls in Kill Bill's Deadly Viper Assassination Squad are named after snakes and members of the Marvel Comics fictional organisation The Serpent Society – sworn enemies of Captain America. Trunk with a view One of Tarantino’s trademarks is the trunk shot: filming the action with the camera positioned inside the open trunk of a car.
| The Permanent Seminar on Histories of Film Theories | How To Do Super-Slow Motion: Part II, Software Being the big super slow-motion fans that we are, last week we went over the several solutions that are there out there to make some good super-slow motion. We began with Cameras that are good to do it. In this post, we’ll take a look at Software. You see, even if you don’t have a camera that will allow you to shoot at 1,000 frames per second, you will still be able to mimic how that will look like with a few software programs. And it is less expensive that most slow-motion cameras, so let’s see: The king of it all is Twixtor. Pretty cool, huh? Now, Twixtor is not a software program per se, more actually a plugin that works with your editing/compositing software of choice, either After Effects, Premiere, Avid, etc. And how to actually do it? Awesome! The basic version of Twixtor costs $329.99. Although Twixtor is the king, it doesn’t mean it’s the only player in town. You can download it from the Mac App Store for $49.99. Follow us for more:
Not Just Pulp Fiction (September 30, 1996) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin By ERIC A. JOHNSON and COLLEEN R.C. STUMBAUGH By most accounts, the origin of science fiction as a distinct literary genre dates back to 1926, when Hugo Gernsback started publishing what he called "scientifiction" in a new magazine known as Amazing Stories. Under U.S. Copyright Law, creators are required to deposit one or two copies of a work, depending on medium. Seventy years after its birth, science fiction has become an integral part of American popular culture. Thanks once again to the Copyright Law, major Hollywood films - as well as television episodes originating on American network television, like the "X-Files," "Babylon 5" and "The Twilight Zone" - are now among the holdings of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Like many elements of American popular culture, science fiction has old European roots. With the appearance of H.G. By the early 1950s, American science fiction had clearly outgrown the pulp magazines in which it had been born. Mr. Eric A.
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