the last of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Awards Roundtable series, THR’s Elizabeth Guider and Matthew Belloni gathered six A-list directors — Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”); James Cameron…
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the last of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Awards Roundtable series, THR’s Elizabeth Guider and Matthew Belloni gathered six A-list directors — Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”); James Cameron…
America’s mainstream religious denominations used to teach the faithful that they would be rewarded in the afterlife. But over the past generation, a different strain of Christian faith has…
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Eric Escobar has been following the development of “improvised” cinema in the American Indie film scene. These developments interest me for obvious reasons ie i’m a filmmaker and an improviser.
I’m filing this articles for future reference - thinking I’ll do a improvised short next year as a practice run for a feature.
http://prepshootpost.blogspot.com/2009/12/joshua-leonard-director-lie.html
http://prepshootpost.blogspot.com/2009/12/katie-aselton-director-freebie.html
http://prepshootpost.blogspot.com/2009/04/money-meet-mouth.html
He spends very little time in the seminar exploring the nature of suspense, an essential element of horror. Instead, McKee draws a distinction between what he calls the Cheap Surprise—a sudden shock out of nowhere—and the True Surprise, which includes a revelation. “It’s hard to imagine a satisfying horror film without a Cheap Surprise,” he says. This is snobbery masquerading as hipness.
Artemis, a directors viewfinder app for iPhone, is rocking my world. Expensive as far as apps go, but a helluva a lot cheaper and more useful than the optical kind… but sadly without the instant cred.