All posts tagged "Storyboard"
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Why Over-Prep? It’s the Key to Not Taking Shots In the Dark, Says the Director of A Violent Man
A Violent Man is a throwback to classic film noir, influenced by Hitchcock’s Frenzy and Nicolas Ray’s In A Lonely Place, mixed with the fighting...
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How They Did It: Why Storyboarding was Crucial to Creating the Gothic Big House of The Lodgers
A brief history lesson: After the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland in the 17th century, when Irish land was confiscated from Irish Catholics to pay British Protestant soldiers,...
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Luck of the Draw: What’s the Best, and Cheapest, Way to Figure Out If Your Film Works? Storyboarding
When storyboard artist Kurt van der Basch and director Tom Tykwer first met in 2012, the latter was already an established talent, lauded for his...
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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...