All posts tagged "location scouting"
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Making a Scene: A No-Drama, No-Frills Primer to the Criminally Overlooked Process of Location Scouting
Everyone is acutely aware of the creative impact that cinematographers, editors, production designers, and even the glamour squad can bring to a film’s... -
How They Did It: Juggling Three Hats to Make the 12-Day, Five-City Feature Toss It
How did Michele Remsen write, direct, produce, and act in her first feature film Toss It? Not a big enough question. How did she... -
On the Lookout For Your Next Location? Don’t Forget These Eight Keys to Foolproof Scouting (Video)
When scouting for locations, moviemakers automatically consider what’s going to be in the frame, but sometimes tend to forget that what’s out of it will be... -
How They Did It: Thriller Ascent to Hell Made a Small Location Feel Large Through Careful Planning
When I closed my eyes I could see it: a factory capable of holding more than 500 workers throughout its three levels.... -
Casting Your Location: How to Find (and Keep) a Great Location For Your Film
The right location can make a film, the wrong location can break it. Recently, my family went looking for a home in... -
Cinema Law: Location Permission
Q: The trailer for my first film was recently posted online. A brief scene in the movie (which also appears in the...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Mads Mikkelsen
From Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be seen stretching his dramatic skills across the board these...Inside the Issue: Directing
The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45 of their makers were first-timers. The fest’s...1Inside the Issue: How To
Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry
Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies of David Cronenberg films and, with...