Using Sidney Lumet’s ‘12 Angry Men‘, Andrew Saladino from The Royal Ocean Film Society looks at how blocking and staging can add emotion and density to scenes which may otherwise end up rather dull. For more interesting videos, definitely check out The Royal Ocean Film Society’s YouTube Channel.
The super-talented Craven Moorhaus and Zak Koonce (aka Auralnauts) have created the perfect blueprint for your blockbuster movie trailer. See more at the Auralnauts YouTube Channel.
News that a certain beloved book is being adapted into a movie or even worse, a blockbuster, is concomitantly met with both joy and dismay by the same category of people – the fans. Simply put, with a few exceptions, a movie adaptation will almost always disappoint die-hard fans. This happens because some unspoken elements…
The Masterclass is an annual festival fixture in which a respected film practitioner is invited to talk about their approach and their body of work. Watch Clint Eastwood give the 2017 edition, moderated by legendary film critic Kenneth Turan. Watch Clint Eastwood’s Masterclass at the official Cannes Film Festival website.
There is no doubt that filming at height allows you to create beautiful shots that would be impossible to get with your feet on the ground, but it also comes with an element of danger. You could fall, or you could drop something and it hits a person below. In some cases, you might get…
Go behind the scenes with Guardians’ Director James Gunn and Director of Photography Henry Braham, BSC as they discuss their vision for the movie and the experience they wanted to give viewers. Their desire to display a larger-than-life adventure that is punctuated with intimate human moments made the compact form factor and large sensor size…
Anyone working in the indie scene over the past few years will have noted the paradox that now exists between the exponential increase in the availability of new distribution platforms and the ever-increasing difficulty for indie films to recoup their budgets. This is particularly true for the independent films with budgets that are not large…
This is a blatant post about why we want you to use the new short film funding platform called The Film Fund to get around industry gatekeepers. It’s also a pretty dope write-up, so read on if you’re interested in the film industry and getting your flicks made. You’re probably not J.J. Abrams, or Steven Spielberg, or Quentin…
Khan Academy has teamed up with the master storysmiths at Pixar to provide a video course in the art of storytelling. And if that wasn’t cool enough, the whole course is available for free. Take the rest of the course: Pixar in a Box @ Khan Academy.
Movie posters have to say a lot about a film through little more than a few words and some graphic design. The editors over at Rotten Tomatoes have put together a list of 24 posters for films in 2016 which are some of the best. Check them out in the 24 Best Movie Posters of 2016 gallery.
These days, it seems that every man and his dog wants to run a film festival, which is fantastic in many ways, not least because it provides a greater number of outlets for filmmakers to get their work in front of an audience. But sadly, the multitude of scammers and ethics-light opportunists who prowl the Internet also…
The film industry is filled with inspirational moments that changed millions of mindsets throughout our planet. However, today we’ll focus on the main 5 movies that succeeded to alter the methods of shooting movies. Let’s see which these are and where lies the source of their power to turn things around. 1. 2001: A Space…
