Know what the phases of how a film comes together (4 phases) development, pre-production, production, post production, : what happens in each phase…
Postproduction is the final step in the production process and it can have multiple purposes. The producer must supervise the editing process to make sure it is in the guidelines, look, budget, and on time. I know this is crucial because if it is off time, then it messes it up. There must be continuity in the postproduction. If it is a live production there will be little postproduction work, but things will need to be handled before the broadcast. There will need to be feedback so that information can be learned and further production will be improved. A digital video log sheet can help you know what scenes you have to put together. There are some editing guidelines that are essential for the postproduction…
Movies, we've all seen them, but do you know just how much work goes into making one? What I am about to share is just the tip of the ice-berg when it comes to film production, but I hope it will give you some insight on what it takes in order to make some of your favorite movies. The film production process can be broken down to three main stages preproduction, production, and postproduction.…
NOTE: Picture below is after 48 hours of all three samples sitting in a warm place.…
Chapter 10: Shooting through the Looking Glass ...................................................... 147 Chapter 11: Let There Be Lighting! .............................................................................. 167 Chapter 12: Sound Advice: Production Sound ........................................................... 183 Chapter 13: Directing Your Actors: … And Action! ................................................... 197 Chapter 14: A Sense of Direction: Directing Your Film ............................................. 211…
2) Analyze the backstory. Was it a low budget or high budget film? What sort of work have the actors, producers, and directors done in the past?…
“Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade” (1969) is one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most famous autobiographical works about the bombing of Dresden during World War II. Kurt Vonnegut was an American writer, satirist and painter who was honored to be called “a writer of New York” in 2001-2003. The novel is written in the so-called “Vonnegut’s” “telegraphic, schizophrenic” style. It combines a strong narrative plot and philosophy, science fiction and the grotesque, burlesque and lampoon.…
Film composing requires an abundance of creativity and technicality; it is the composer's job to understand the setting of the scenes in the movie, and translate the atmosphere through music by writing melodies and themes that complement to the film. One online journal called The Journal…
1. Consider the effectiveness of the dialogue and storyline. Although many professional screenwriters do not get the same attention as actors or directors, they are the true architects of a movie. Screenwriters may adapt a book into script form, or they may create their own original stories for the screen. Either way, you should be able to sense an attention to detail in the dialogue and plotlines. A successful movie script uses authentic dialogue and scenarios that the actors can handle with ease. A less successful script places characters in situations that feel artificial or contrived. The language of the characters may be peppered with obscenities, or thoughts that seem to come more from a screenwriters mind than the characters. When analyzing the writing in a film, ask yourself if the dialogue felt honest and the scenes flowed…
Use of filmmaking (e.g. Angles, lighting, sound, music, editing, interviews, voice – overs, diagrams, text…)…
Human kind has always displayed a desire, within their literature, to engross themselves on a journey of self reflection. However often these journeys can also be negatively forced upon a character. Skrzynecki, in his text ‘Immigrants at central station’ explores how forced journeys have dehumanised and isolated his family on their journey of migration. However, in ’10 Mary street’ Skrzynecki focuses on positive outcomes of journeys that him and his family have taken on their own. Furthermore ‘Girl, interrupted’, the 1999 movie directed by James Mangold, Outlines the segregation and inequality of forced journeys whilst also looking at journeys with positive outcomes of self enlightenment that were chosen to be taken.…
Film is a different medium through which to convey historical experiences of war and its social and cultural contexts. As learned throughout class, memoirs and non-fiction portrayals of war are excellent sources in which to learn of war and its effects on society and vice versa. Film, however, is no better or worse than these books. Throughout the semester, the class learned of the development of modern warfare since the Civil War in the late nineteenth century and the society that surrounded these wars. In addition to the readings done, seven films were viewed in relation to each war talked about. Each of these films portrays aspects of war and society as discussed in class. Along with the readings done, these films help bring people closer to…
the producer’s imagination and ideas. The norms of the director start to become our norms,…
The first short film I ever produced and directed was titled Rapture of The Church. I did not have any actual video editing software then; I had no way of editing the mini DV footage in post-production. To overcome this, I storyboarded the script and shot the scenes in sequence and in one-take. The resulting footage was a success and my short film received positive…
“Try to look at everything from the frame of 6 inches to be a good script writer” said my mentor Mr. Chaitanya Shah, when I started my internship in ‘script writing’. ‘A writer is born but a script writer is made’. Writing skills may come to you naturally but to write for a film or television is something very different, It needs entirely different vision.…