by Baptiste Charles | 5 March, 2019 | Book Review
The creative process is always mysterious. Writing is tremendously difficult, as any novelist worth their salt will tell you. Screenwriting, while technically writing, is its own beast. Screenwriting encompasses all the sweat and pain that writing involves, with the...
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by Erin Sastre | 21 February, 2019 | Book Review, Directing, Filmmaking, In Our Opinion, Technical Craft
Ask anyone for a list of the most prolific and artistic filmmakers, and Quentin Tarantino will most likely be on it. His work is so distinctively identifiable that anyone who views one of his films will instantly recognise it as his. In addition to the artistic use of...
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by Milo Garner | 15 February, 2019 | Book Review, In Our Opinion, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
The promise of Paul Dudbridge’s Making Your First Blockbuster initially seems dubious, or at best unlikely. A book about making a blockbuster, targeted at filmmakers who aren’t likely to be busting blocks any time soon. But while this title might be a touch...
![[BOOK REVIEW] The Director’s Six Senses](https://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Eye-min-1080x675.jpg)
by Erin Sastre | 1 February, 2019 | Book Review, Directing, In Our Opinion
“‘Director’ is not a description of what you do; it is something you become. You are a director 24/7. You should always have your ‘director senses’ alert.” The idea that you have to use all of your senses to be a great director is one that the author of The Director’s...
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by Baptiste Charles | 25 January, 2019 | Book Review, In Our Opinion
Couching a story on paper is difficult enough as it is. Writing a story that is original, and works as a movie, and will not get shot down by movie executives is nigh impossible. Yet it is the mission that screenwriters give themselves on a daily basis all over the...
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by Erin Sastre | 21 January, 2019 | Book Review, Filmmaking, In Our Opinion
Filmmaking can seem like a daunting task, especially for the first time filmmaker. When you’re a teenager, that process seems even more intimidating. In Filmmaking For Teens: Pulling Off Your Shorts 2nd Edition, Troy Lanier and Clay Nichols try to simplify the process...
