Archive for the 'Directors' Category
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Prepping for the Directors Close-Up panels
Tonight and next Wednesday, I’ll be hosting the Director’s Close Up panels for Film Independent. Tonight’s director is Jason Reitman, joined by cinematographer Eric Steelberg, editor Dana E. Glauberman and composer Rolfe Kent. We’ll be talking about Up In The Air, Juno and Thank You For Smoking.
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Learning story as a director
Film is a hundred different skills and disciplines, and no one person is going to be great at all of them.
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What does “execution dependent” mean?
What makes one high-concept idea more execution-dependent than another?
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Referring to famous people
Yes, you can have characters talk about people like Michael Bay without getting permission.
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Show your work
Screenwriting continues to be the most transparent and opaque part of moviemaking.
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Raiders story conference
Lessons on screenwriting in action, straight from George, Steven and Larry.
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Alaska: The Satchel Boy
A clip from my 2003 pilot, directed by Kim Manners.
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Rewriting the rewriter
Sometimes there’s good reasons why original writers leave and return to their projects.
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On creating emotion
How the writer, actor, director and audience work together.
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James Cameron on 3-D
A pioneer explains how 3-D changes (or doesn’t) cinema.
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Should I direct my spec?
How to avoid being talked out of your dreams.
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Changes while directing
When the shoot begins, the real world comes to play.
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Giving credit where it’s due
In a collaboration, how to identify contributions and distinguish contributors.
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Follow up: What job should I beg for?
A blog reader helps steer another reader towards his dream job.
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Movies look nothing like reality
The disorienting effects of movie magic.
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As it turns out, I could care less
And both the film and I were better for it.
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What job should I beg for?
Access leads to learning which is everything.
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Am I a writer or a director?
If you don’t like it, don’t do it.
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J.J. Abrams got a $55+ million deal
I feel exhausted just thinking about it.
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What’s it like being the writer and director?
There’s little time or room on set for the writer in me once the director in me takes over, but he’s good to have around.
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What if the movie I wrote turns out god-awful?
This is one of the worst things about being a screenwriter: you ultimately have very little control over the movie that gets made. Here’s how to deal.
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Does the editor even read the script?
Almost certainly once, before she signs on for the job. After that, it’s hard to say. And that’s not all bad.
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Writer and Director and Disaster
The job of a writer and the job of a director are fundamentally different, which is why so few people are great at both.
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Seeing a rough cut of your film
If a screenwriter gets a film produced, will he or she get to see a rough cut of the film at its earliest stage?
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Actors and dialogue
How to bring your dialogue to life without stepping where you don’t belong.
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Film festival contacts
Timed right, they can take you places.
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Writer/director disagreements
What happens when you disagree with what a director does with your script?
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