Categories Archives: Design

The Things I Use

Pre-production is one of the mysterious things about filmmaking that few people outside the industry understand. It’s not really covered in “behind the scenes” clips and “making of” documentaries. We’re currently in full pre-production mode on “Love and War” so I thought I’d take a picture of some of the things I use. Hope this [...]

Appropriate Fonts for Titles

I’m seeing too many of my fellow students’ excellent short films marred by shitty titles. Coming from a graphic design background I’m easily distracted by this. It’s like seeing a beautiful face with a jagged scar across it. I know a section on typography is outside the scope of our program, but titles are a [...]

Film Story Structure

So here’s a little graphic I made about screenplay structure.  This is based on what I’ve absorbed from books, classes, and writing my own.  I don’t take credit for any of the ideas presented here, I just thought It’d be fun to mash them all together in a graphical way. This file is fully editable [...]