Stories By Caleb Hammond
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Cinematography
Need For Speed: Don’t Write Off Using Differing Shutter Speeds In Your Project (Video)
July 10, 2017A comprehensive filmmaker’s toolkit is grown slowly over time: picking up technical knowledge here and there...
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Acting
Killer Instincts: Florence Pugh’s Steely Performance in Lady Macbeth Foretells a Rapid Ascension
July 10, 2017“Everybody get the bongos out,” laughs 21-year-old Florence Pugh when describing her English childhood. A bohemian...
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Book Reviews
Book Review: Shooting Better Movies: The Student Filmmakers’ Guide Should Be a Rookie’s Go-To Reference
July 7, 2017“You have to know the rules in order to break them.” This oft-repeated cliché might be...
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Interviews
Demetri Martin. Indie Moviemaker. The Dean Star and Director Takes a New Step in an Already Accomplished Career
June 2, 2017With his directorial debut, Dean, comedic multihyphenate Demetri Martin stars alongside an impressive ensemble cast in a...
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Screenwriting
Subverting Rom-Com Expectations: How When Harry Met Sally… Dances Around the Conventions of Genre (Video)
May 19, 2017“When Harry Met Sally… shows how a clever writer can flip genre conventions to create a...
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Festivals
Festival Wrap: Dallas Fest EARTHxFilm Counters Environmental Doomsday Narratives With A Message of Hope
May 2, 2017Recently wrapping its seventh year, Earth Day Texas is the largest annual environmental forum in the...
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Interviews
Comic Timing: Slack Bay Continues French Director Bruno Dumont’s Pivot Into Slapstick and Farce
April 28, 2017If you had told anyone in 2013—after his heartbreaking seventh feature, Camille Claudel 1915—that famously austere...
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Editing
Classic Cuts: Three Simple Editing Techniques Employed By The Empire Strikes Back (Video)
April 17, 2017The trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the sequel to 2015’s The Force Awakens, dropped...
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Interviews
All Under One Roof Raving: How Michal Marczak Made All These Sleepless Nights With 3-D-Printed Gear and ADR
April 11, 2017The essential listlessness of youth: So many have tried to capture that on camera, though every...
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Directing
Watch: Charlie McDowell Talks About Writing The Discovery, Getting Robert Redford to Star and More (Video)
March 31, 2017With his second feature, The Discovery, screenwriter and director Charlie McDowell continues to craft high-concept sci-fi...
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