Moonlight Co-Editor Nat Sanders Talks Quitting Your Day Job, Disagreeing With Directors and That Awkward Oscars Moment
Though his nomination for a Best Editing Oscar for Moonlight wasn’t as monumental as his co-editor Joi McMillon’s—she was the first African-American to receive a nod for the...
Vegas Upgrade: VEGAS Pro Editing Software Gets a Comprehensive Boost in its 14th Edition
Berlin-based MAGIX has given VEGAS Pro editing software the love it may not have received from Sony. MAGIX acquired the Windows-only VEGAS Pro last May...
The Perfect Match (Cut): Why An Extra Set Of Eyes (and Scissors) Could Be The Key To Editing Your Indie
A no-budget indie often demands that the director be his or her own editor—getting two for the price of one. At first blush, one person...
Basic Training as a Wake-Up Call: Tom Antos’ 2Day Cine School
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of attending the 2Day Cine School with Tom Antos in Houston. After about 90 minutes into Day One, everything...
Step by Step: End-to-End Editing, Grading and Coloring a Short Film in DaVinci Resolve 12 Studio
For years now I have been using DaVinci Resolve Studio as my primary color grading platform, and most recently it has become my go-to non-linear...
Sound Design as World-Building: How to Create a Believable Universe With Sound
Sound is half the presentation of a movie, but it is always in service to the whole. Sound design working at its best seamlessly describes,...
I Was Thinking Beyoncé: Choosing Film Music, and Understanding the Costs
Unless you idolize the austerity of certain European auteurs—the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke, or Cristian Mungiu, to name three diegetic, music-averse directors—you’re probably going to...
The Film You Save May be Your Own: Five Rules for Smooth Post-Production without Going Broke
Young directors spend years thinking about their movies, the ones that they hope will put them on the map and make them household names. Unfortunately,...
Letting Go on the Cutting Room Floor: A Post-Production Conversation Between David Lowery and Shane Carruth
Editing begins when I’m writing, continues while I’m on set, and then blossoms into its own alchemical element once production is over. The editing room...
Getting Lucky: Snow White and the Huntsman
In addition to being an accomplished director of commercials and short films, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan is perhaps best known for his amazing work as a visual...
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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...