What does MOS stand for? “Write an MOS script,” they say. ”Remember this is MOS,” they warn. But what does that mean exactly? Explanations offered: Mit Aus Sound. This is doubly wrong. First of all the English word “without” cannot be broken into “with” and “out” and translated into German and retain the same meaning. [...]
One of the best ways to learn about screenwriting and get an impression of the right way to write your own, is to read as many screenplays as possible. Here’s a good site with lots of popular scripts. http://www.dailyscript.com/ Also, a lot of studios put up the scripts for their Academy nominated movies. http://focusfeatures2007.com/ http://www.vantageguilds.com/twbb/FinalScript_TWBB.pdf [...]
Trees dispensed a number of handy tips on developing a movie idea. But I think one was missing: coming up with a good title. Defining your genre, concept, and premise are all essential, of course, but a good title is no less so. It’s how a movie is identified before you see it. It’s how [...]
Mosio demonstrated the different optical effects you get with lenses of different focal lengths. He showed us slides of his friend against a background, maintaining the same image size by moving back as he switched to longer focal lengths. A dolly zoom is the effect you get when you film this in real-time. It was [...]
Here are some handy links for learning Final Cut Pro Apple’s own tutorials. Very well made with video demonstration. http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/tutorials/ Random people who want to help you: http://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/applefinalcutpro http://www.lafcpug.org/tutorials.html http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_homepage_index.html You have to do that.
Paul Newman, actor, lemonade master, and folk hero, has died. Everyone should eat 50 eggs in his honor.
Saturday I recruited some friends to help shoot my film. I’m quite new to the process but it was funny to see how absolutely alien it is to most people. Their comments ranged from the inquisitive: “Why are you shooting all out of order?”, to the inspired: “What if you pull into focus as I [...]
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 [...]
So everything I’ve read and heard about D.W. Griffith holds that he was an unmitigated genius who did more for the art of cinema than anyone has ever done for anything ever, and other such superlatives. Oh, and he was also mind-blowingly racist. Honest critique is supposed to separate the art from the artist [...]
Today we were drilled on the importance of fully planning our shots. Some sort of system for translating a script is absolutely necessary. The traditional method is: Script –> storyboard –> shot list –> shooting order. This is especially useful for me to hear, as my first impulse is to grab the camera and start [...]