by Milo Garner | 17 January, 2019 | Directing, Film History, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career
Peter Jackson’s debut Bad Taste recently turned thirty. Here’s why every aspiring filmmaker should see it. These days, Peter Jackson is something of a one-man film industry. Following The Lord of the Rings – one of the best and most successful big-budget...
by Milo Garner | 11 January, 2019 | Directing, Film History, Filmmaking, Producing, Technical Craft
The most common complaint of an indie filmmaker is money. And to be sure, sometimes you can’t do without it. Historical epics, soaring space operas, massive scale thrillers – these genres, by their very nature, are never cheap. But many indie filmmakers are not trying...
by Milo Garner | 7 January, 2019 | Directing, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Technical Craft
‘Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.’ – Ridley Scott The Problem: Picture the scene: you’ve got hold of a 4K camera through a series of promises and assurances so convoluted you can’t remember who you owe what...
by Elliot Grove | 31 December, 2018 | Directing, Documentary, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Producing
In 2008 Malcolm Gladwell published an influential book Outliers in which he unveiled his ten thousand hours rule for the first time. What is an outlier? According to one dictionary definition, an outlier is ‘something that is situated away from or classed...
by Elliot Grove | 27 December, 2018 | Filmmaking, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution, Raindance Film Festival
You’ve finished your short, feature or documentry – congratulations – it’s festival submission time! Submit early! This is when you cross your fingers and toes and hope you get selected. Here at Raindance Film Festival we’ve had a quarter...
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by Caroline Hamilton | 17 December, 2018 | Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, In Our Opinion, Screenwriting
After the success of The Hidden Tools of Comedy, Kaplan follows this up with an equally insightful book, The Comic Hero’s Journey. This time, Kaplan veers away from the more general successful tools and techniques of comedy (although he does incorporate several of the...
