![[REVIEW] Making Your First Blockbuster](https://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/block-1080x608.jpg)
by Milo Garner | 15 February, 2019 | 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...
by Milo Garner | 13 February, 2019 | In Our Opinion
1. A Camera To start at the beginning, you’ll need something to shoot your film on. But it’s easy to find yourself lost in ever-escalating costs; the art of filmmaking does not require the most expensive camera, but simply something that can capture and record. And...
by Erin Sastre | 8 February, 2019 | In Our Opinion, News
If you’ve logged into your Netflix account recently or scrolled through your Twitter feed, you’ve most likely seen a trailer for a true crime film or tweets about Zac Efron’s portrayal of Ted Bundy. But this isn’t anything new. The intense fascination with true crime...
![[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 | 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...
by Katie O'Toole | 29 January, 2019 | Film History, In Our Opinion
Time and time again, cinema is mindlessly dismissed as ‘escapism’. Whilst films are predominately created for entertainment purposes, it would be a mistake to reject their ‘world-changing’ potential. Films can have an impact far greater than first imagined. They can...
![[BOOK REVIEW] Bulletproof, by David Diamond and David Weissman](https://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/typewriter-1080x608.jpg)
by Baptiste Charles | 25 January, 2019 | 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...
