All posts tagged "diy"
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Digging a Hole Where the Rain Gets In: How Days of Power Crafted a Low-Budget Character Death
“Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.”—Werner Herzog When we began the journey to make Days of Power, seasoned filmmakers barraged...
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Hands Up: Spotlight on Whistler Film Festival 2017
While accepting an award from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists at the Whistler Film Festival in 2013, DIY indie filmmaking queen Ingrid Veninger made...
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Do Things, Don’t Just Say Things: Six D.I.Y. Tips From the Director of Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
What is punk rock? It should first be said that punk is different things to different people—and it only continues to evolve so long as...
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The Bellflower Bellows: A Simple Guide to Personalizing Your Lens for Gorgeously Unique Visuals
Tom Waits has a song, “What’s He Building in There?” about a man wondering what goes on behind his neighbor’s garage door. He hears a...
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A Duel in a Different Form: Tips for Choreographing and Executing a Car Chase From the Director of The Chase
In the action world, one of the least expensive things to do, though not necessarily the easiest, is to create a fight piece. You need...
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Starring Ol’ Blue: Casting a 43-Year Old Ford Pickup Truck in Reparation
This is a story about how I nearly fired one of the lead actors in our film the day before principal photography began. Oh, and…...
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Success in Digital Distribution: A Conversation with The Orchard
Swimming through the tides of new digital tools and distribution entities has become something of a pastime for me. Something new happens in the world...
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We Make Movies (Better): How I Learned to build an Avid Editing bay for under $1,500
MovieMaker is reintroducing the We Makes Movies (Better) blog from our friends over at We Make Movies! Look for their brilliant, practical advice straight from...
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Screenwriting 101: Script Criteria Checklist
As you probably know, finishing (or finding) a script is only the beginning of any moviemaker’s odyssey from page to screen. With so many different...
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Things I’ve Learned: Chris Weitz’s Golden Rules of Filmmaking
This week, our Things I’ve Learned come from the Hollywood jack-of-all-trades that is Chris Weitz. The consummate professional reminds fellow moviemakers to avoid clichés and always...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...