by Sylvie Dumont | 26 November, 2018 | Book Review, Directing, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Producing, Technical Craft
If you’ve ever been on a film set, you know that there’s no single way things are going to go. Unexpected situations pop up left and right – a light breaks; it starts to rain; an actor refuses to interact with the hired monkey you hired for exactly one hour on...
by Raindance | 9 April, 2015 | Directing
Spice up your visual dictionary. Even if you have a killer script, even if your lighting is bang-on, even if your actors are Oscar-winners: if your shots stay boring, so will your entire film. The Single Developing Shot, originally made famous by Orson Welles and used...