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Photo taken by Yiran Ding | www.yiranding.com | Follow Instagram @yiran_ding Delivering the Epiphany to the Audience… Again And Injecting that Energy Into Your Own Cinematic Work Written by Michael Karp, SOC There are certain great films that audiences will watch over and over. Paradoxically, these narratives become more interesting with each viewing,… …
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Photo by Tina Vanhove. | www.tinagraphy.com | Follow Instagram @tina_vanhove Written By Sherri Sheridan Almost every scene in your film should have a reversal to build up suspense. Reversals keep the audience guessing as to what is going to happen next, and pulls them into the story, prompting them to search for the… …
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Pictured: Keaton Nye holding his RED filming a YouYube series. www.keatonnye.com Written By Richard La Motte If you want to be a filmmaker, where do you start? Well, it’s different for all of us, but here are some things to think about. If you want to express an idea, you’re following in the tradition of… …
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Pictured: Highway 212 forest road. Lithonia, United States. Photo by Matt Duncan. matthewfoxx.com | @matthew.foxx Written By JC Cummings Once you get a ‘green light’ the next phase begins. Among various convoluted phases of any production process, DEVELOPMENT, is one of the most important. As elementary as it sounds, defining who, what, where, when and… …
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With a new school year approaching, one that is filled with uncertainty for so many, I wanted to provide guidance to the many educators navigating this new phase of normal. My latest book is a guide to help K-12 teachers navigate online learning environments. “Technology Tools for Online Education” is meant to give educators guidance… …
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“Early on in my TV and film production career, I was a “one-man-band”—a common phrase describing one who was doing it all. I quickly discovered that the most important component of my projects was the script, and a bad script leads to a bad project. But over time (and getting a master’s degree in scriptwriting),… …
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StudentFilmmakers Magazine: Can you share with us your thoughts on the importance for screenwriters to “prewrite” their screenplays and the benefits of prewriting? Michael Tabb: First and foremost, every writer has to find his or her own writing method that works best for him or her. So, regardless of how anyone tells writers there is… …
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(Pictured above: Bob Levy with film director Sean Anders.) StudentFilmmakers Magazine: Can you share with us some of your insights on television development, and the importance of the development stage? Bob Levy: Development is about creating the blueprint of a TV pilot or series. You can’t build a building without a blueprint, and you… …
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StudentFilmmakers Magazine: What changes in storyboarding have you seen over the years? Giuseppe Cristiano: There has been quite many changes in the business since I started up. One of the most important, of course, was the introduction of computers, the evolution of tablets and digital screens and, of course, the internet. My source for… …
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Pictured above: Amedeo D’Adamo with his film students in the AFI Directing class. StudentFilmmakers Magazine: How have you seen producing for film and video change over the years? Amedeo D’Adamo: Looking beyond COVID, I’d say it’s a great time to break into producing through TV. There are so many opportunities in all the many… …
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By Steve Myers Every time a director approaches me for original music, I get a little nervous. Whether it will be a pre-score (music before any picture is shot) or a post-score (music after the picture is locked), the first round of conversation either revolves around something they have heard and might think will work,… …
