Another 48 Hour Film Project. Here’s “Quietus”, made on the weekend of May 2-4, 2014: The required elements: Silent movie, an event planner named Sam or Samuel Canterbury, an envelope, the line “You can trust me.” I directed, but I had a...
Julie and I watched “The Haunting” the other night. This is an excellent haunted house movie made in the late 60’s. One thing that caught my eye was the interesting distortions in the movie and the way that everything seems to have greater depth...
This post includes information from my previous post on what I’m reading, the Movie Edition. But this one organizes books by topic. It also includes only my favorites of the books I’ve read on making movies. Consider this my recommended reading list on...
I’m taking weekend classes this month on film production. This weekend was all about scriptwriting. I had a good time, though have kind of mixed feelings about what I learned. As part of the class, we had a short time to write a script. I put together the...
I love getting out the camera and experimenting with stuff. Today: what’s the effect on depth-of-field and apparent closeness of changing the focal length of the lens? There’s strong implications on filming here. First off, on apparent closeness....
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