![[Book Review] Crazy Screenwriting Secrets by Weiko Lin](https://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/book-review-crazy-screenwriting-secrets-weiko-lin-1080x608.jpg)
by Ivan Phillips | 29 June, 2019 | Book Review, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career
Introduction A good script can provide the recipe for a good film. Screenwriting itself is a craft which can be attempted by pretty much anyone, but it can be very difficult to master. A decent script can transform or take away from a film’s appeal. While a...
![[BOOK REVIEW] Secrets of Screen Directing, By Patrick Tucker](https://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-directing-2-feature-1080x608.jpg)
by Ivan Phillips | 14 April, 2019 | Book Review
Meeting Patrick Tucker is an experience that you will never forget. He is a tutor at Raindance and is teaching masterclasses on directing and screen acting. A master of his field, he has directed over 200 theatre plays and around 200 television programmes for over 40...
by Baptiste Charles | 24 March, 2019 | Book Review
No filmmaker can do it all. Cinema is, after all, a collaborative art form in its very essence. But there is one area of filmmaking which any filmmaker (even producers) tend to find daunting, and that is the law. Navigating the clauses and sub-clauses of any contract...
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...
![[BOOK REVIEW] Shoot Like Tarantino: The Visual Secrets of Dangerous Storytelling](https://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/shoot-like-tarantino-1080x608.jpg)
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...
![[REVIEW] Making Your First Blockbuster](https://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/block-1080x608.jpg)
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...
