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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 [...]

Problematic Auteurs

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 [...]

A couple of quotes on Art

By two very quotable gay men. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless. ~Oscar Wilde For Raphael, the creating of a work of art is a bright spring day in the campagna: for me, it is the tramontana howling down the valley ~Michelangelo Buonarrotti

First Post

Hello, internets. Here’s another fucking blog.  I’ll be sharing thoughts and insights as I progress through the program at Seattle Film Institute.  I’m also a working graphic designer, so I may end up talking about that as well. I’m also one of those smart guys who knows a lot of stuff and has original thoughts [...]