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.
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…
Filmmaker education has been a cottage industry for many years. There are a plethora of books on the subject and thousands of film schools around the world offering training in every aspect of the craft. But forging a career as a filmmaker is an individual path – no two people share the same route in….
I was asked why a director shouldn’t edit his/her own films today… again. I get a lot of blow-back from my usual answer, but I’m steadfast in my belief that a director should never edit their own film. I know; never is a strong word. And there are exceptions, and those outliers are part and…
In this short video, Tony at Every Frame A Painting looks at the ingredients of an effective scene using the classic first meeting from ‘The Silence of the Lambs‘ to illustrate the point. For more from Every Frame a Painting, visit the blog.
Project Greenlight, a HBO filmmaking reality series which originally aired in the early 2000s is coming back. Using tried and tested reality TV techniques, the series aimed to follow a group a filmmakers as they attempted to take their indie projects from genesis to reality. A new series is soon to be produced and HBO have re-enlisted the original…
If you’ve been scratching around with your own projects for the past couple of years, a new competition brought to you by YouTube and D&AD could be the thing to take your directing career to the nest level. Here’s the blurb form the press release: YouTube and D&AD are to launch a brand new award with the aim of discovering…
It’s a problem that seems to be shared by both quantum physics (a subject about which I know a ton, seriously) and documentary filmmaking – does the act of watching something change it in some fundamental way? How can someone act, react and respond “normally” to life when they’re aware those actions, reactions and responses are being…
With the recent release of Tarantino’s eighth feature as a director, the guys over at Film Doctor take a look back over his career to date, and how the once video store clerk has achieved and maintained his seat at the table of top directors. “Quentin Tarantino was born Texan, but bred Californian. From his early school years ,…
Apple have just announced that they’re lowering the cost of Final Cut Pro software to $299 (probably the same in pounds). Given that the new generation of digital cameras bring the basic cost of the hardware necessary to shoot and cut a HD feature film well within a four-figure price bracket, it’s now possible to be completely…
