by Raindance | 29 July, 2020 | Book Review, Directing, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Screenwriting
The excerpt below is a snippet from the distribution chapter of Still Filmmaking, the Hard Way. It advocates for the need for independent filmmakers to change their way of thinking in regards to distribution, particularly the stigma associated with self-distribution...
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by Baptiste Charles | 27 June, 2020 | Book Review
“You talkin’ to me?” is probably one of the best-known lines of dialogue in movie history in the past century. In Taxi Driver, the protagonist Travis Bickle is alone in his room, looking at himself in the mirror, imagines someone else is there, and...
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by Baptiste Charles | 6 May, 2020 | Book Review
The role of the director on a film has an almost infinite number of facets. And any director will have their strengths and weaknesses, elements of the job that they gravitate towards as well as elements they wish to avoid like the plagues. Nevertheless, every director...
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by Baptiste Charles | 12 April, 2020 | Book Review
The relationship between the director and the cinematographer is an especially complex one. As the person responsible for what is captured by the camera and how it ends up on the screen, the director of photography is one of the most essential people working on a film...
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by Baptiste Charles | 8 March, 2020 | Book Review
The director is the crucial crew member through whom all creative decisions of a film go. They’re responsible for the creative integrity of the project, and for all the ends up on the screen. What the audience sees or doesn’t see is their decision. As...
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by Baptiste Charles | 3 March, 2020 | Book Review
Being a screenwriter is a discipline unlike any other. It’s not just writing in the romantic way that you envision being a lone novel writer sitting at your desk, nor is it -necessarily- the soul-crushing mercenary activity that movies have led us to believe for...
