Frame of Mind: You Need At Least One Big Scene To Sell Your Movie, Says Black Rose Director Alexander Nevsky (Video)
What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film’s cast and crew? Or does the magic rest upon fortuitous mistakes, spontaneity and...
Frame of Mind: Watch How DP Toby Oliver Shot the "Sunken Place" Scene and Made Day Look Like Night in Get Out (Video)
What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film’s cast and crew? Or does the magic rest upon fortuitous mistakes, spontaneity and...
Frame of Mind: To Replace a Lost Prop, Atomica Director Dagen Merrill Built a New One With Street Trash (Video)
What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film’s cast and crew? Or does the magic rest upon fortuitous mistakes, spontaneity and...
Frame of Mind: Watch How Kris Avedisian Made His Awkward Lead Relatable in This Donald Cried Scene (Video)
What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film’s cast and crew? Or does the magic rest upon fortuitous mistakes, spontaneity and...
Frame of Mind: To Toy With Audiences, Focus On What They Don’t See, Says Lavender Director Ed Gass-Donnelly (Video)
What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film’s cast and crew? Or does the magic rest upon fortuitous mistakes, spontaneity and...
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(More) Essential Moviemaking Podcasts: Five Laudable Audibles for Your Educational Pleasure
Directing is a fairly strange craft to try to learn, in part because you rarely get a chance to watch other directors at work. Determined moviemakers exhaust all the...
1Inside the Issue: Festivals
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2017
Are film festivals getting better? That is, are they providing you—independent moviemakers—more of the things you want and need? I think they are. After all, it makes sense: With...
11Inside the Issue: Producing
How to Always Deliver: Denise Di Novi on Gilding a Package, Dealing With the Artistic Temperament and Sniffing Out Hits
Denise Di Novi has forged a moviemaking career by avoiding the kind of carelessness that often bankrupted her peers. Instead, she developed and refined a keen sense for emotional...