All posts by Jeffrey Star
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Practical Shooting Lessons for All Occasions: Tips from Alex Buono’s Visual Storytelling 2
Fresh off wrapping Season 40 of Saturday Night Live, for which he is the film unit’s DP, Alex Buono launched into Visual... -
Crowdfunder Pick: Voyagers Without Trace
Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project. And here...
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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2