Booking the Film – Writing In Several Formats
In some ways writing is writing. No matter what the format it requires the same discipline, and benefits from equal parts inspiration and talent. While writing a script it occurs to many authors to...
View ArticleFuss Budget
In a previous post we talked about planning for your production. One of the obvious requirements for any production is to establish a working budget, secure money and stick to your budgeted costs....
View ArticleCareful What You Say – Writing Dialogue
The following of how writing dialogue can really shape a film. For any film, whether dramatic, documentary or some hybrid, the script requires dialogue. Focusing on the dramatic variety you find that...
View ArticleEye On the Prize
Let’s zoom in on production for a minute. In particular, let’s look at the set itself and how what happens there translates into the creation of a film. One person has the vision and the focus to...
View ArticleGet Into It
Film is a director’s medium and television is a producer’s medium. Those were the clichés for years, as the moving image industry grew and matured. While no art form ever ‘grows up’, it’s safe to say...
View ArticleOne of a Kind – Writing Characters and Setting
Character and setting are the most approachable part of film writing and filmmaking in general. We identify quickly with seeing part of ourselves in a work of fiction or in seeing a place that feels...
View ArticlePrequel To the Sequel – Writing a Series or Movie Sequels
Everyone loves a good sequel. Hollywood, moreover, is in love with them. Television is little better, yet to say the medium is one of imitation is to state a law of the universe. Even with IPTV and...
View ArticleThe Multihat Trap
You’re a filmmaker, of course, and that brings with it a certain amount of ego and willfulness, mixed with a dash of self-deprecation and occasional bouts of torpor. This potent and unusual mix makes...
View ArticleWardrobe And Character
Simply put there’s nothing more important in your production than the look of your film. Of course a number of elements contribute to that look. Cinematography, Art Direction, Wardrobe and Casting...
View ArticleClimate Change
Thomas Fuller once said “Change of weather is the discourse of fools.” With all due respect to the seventeenth century author there is an instance when not discussing the weather is equally foolish;...
View ArticleLet’s write a screenplay about the character Nadia
Do you want to be a filmmaker? Then be a filmmaker. To make a film, you have to have a screenplay. To have a screenplay, you have to have a story to tell and it is as simple as this. The simpler, the...
View ArticleFormatting a Screenplay
Formatting A Screenplay In the previous post I talked about the concept of writing a screenplay but not the actual action which is literally “writing a screenplay”. There are many software packages...
View ArticleDocumentary Screenplay
The Documentary Screenplay Alfred Hitchcock once said “In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director” and this quotes sums it all but like feature films documentaries...
View ArticleTips for the Budding Filmmaker
Hearing the names James Cameron, Michael Bay, and Steven Spielberg would probably send a budding film maker gushing about the works of these directors. Most if not all budding film makers are probably...
View ArticleThe Influence of Anime
Anime Influence In a previous post we talked about the influence and style of animation. One type of animation we intentionally left out, however, was that of anime. Anime is a genre so varied and vast...
View ArticleFormatting and Writing a Screenplay (Part 1)
In this article, we get back to basics by concentrating on the screenplay, which is also known as the script, and this important as it is the blue print of how a film or television program should play...
View ArticleGetting into Character
The Art of Getting into Character We all know how very good Johnny Depp is when it comes to getting into character. He really loses himself into the role and the audience ends up being unable to...
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