The most important location in Whiskey Dreams is the bar. This is also the one that could have been the most difficult to arrange. In my experience, businesses and venues hear the words “film location” and they want to charge money. Fortunately, I’ve got connections. I’ve got access to a bar. The film crew and I will have complete, unfettered, free-reign in this location. And it’s all free.
Here are some pictures:
My proposal for a 16mm MOS film was selected, which means I’ll be directing the film as well. This is exciting.
I’ll be posting more info. Keep checking back for updates on the project, especially if you’re on the crew with me!
Now I understand what the lyrics to that Pixies song are about:
got me a movie
i want you to know
slicing up eyeballs
i want you to know
girlie so groovy
i want you to know
don’t know about you
but i am un chien andalusia
wanna grow
up to be
be a debaser, debasergot me a movie
ha ha ha ho
slicing up eyeballs
ha ha ha ho
girlie so groovie
ha ha ha ho
don’t know about you
but i am un chien andalusiadebaser
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. The German word for “without” is “ohne”. And in any case Mit Aus Sound, would be MAS not MOS.
Mise-en-scène
As above this is also wrong twice. Mise-en-scène doesn’t mean without sync sound. It’s a philosophic French term for the unified gestalt of direction, production design, and image composition. And the acronym is MES.
The wikipedia page doesn’t offer any concrete answers either, but it does better explain its meaning and uses.
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
Google is your friend.
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 you recommend it if you liked it, or how you warn people if you hated it. The title is such an integral part of the movie’s identity that it’s hard to proceed into the writing without a good one. Sure you can add one later, drawing from some theme that developed as you were writing, but that’s putting a the cart before the horse. A more accurate analogy would be that it’s like throwing a bunch of ingredients together and waiting to see what comes out before calling it a cake or a casserole. You have to set out to make a cake. You have to have a title..
No, the script I’m working on doesn’t have a title.
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 most famously used in Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
Here’s another good example from The Fellowship of the Ring.
It’s a pretty groovy effect, but there’s a big danger of it looking cliche if used in the wrong way.
More info on the dolly zoom.
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.
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