Archive for May, 2008

Signs that you’ve been a filmmaker for too long

Friday, May 30th, 2008

14) Your dining room is set up for 3-point lighting 13) Your date says to pick her/him up in 45 minutes, and you wonder if s/he meant drop-frame or non-drop-frame 12) Your home movies are preceded by :45 bars, FBI warning and a Dolby introduction 11) You run into a guy who says he’s gonna [...]

Take a Trip…

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Making a film is like taking a long trip. The film voyager can load up with a full tank and bring a credit card along to insure completion of the voyage in as short a time as posible. The voyager can also load up with a few cups of gasoline and drive until he runs [...]

The Best Way to Learn Film…

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

“Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.” –STANLEY KUBRICK (1928-1999), unsourced. Kubrick is an American film director whose many great classic films, such as Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A [...]

Anatomy of a Screenplay

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

When writing a screenplay, especially a screenplay one would want to be produced into a film, a writer has to keep in mind that there is this screenplay standard that’s widely accepted in many film industries worldwide. If a screenplay does not look like a screenplay, most producers would just pass from reading it or [...]

Elements of an Independent Film a la Sinebuano

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

“Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity” – Occam’s Razor YOU HAVE A STORY you’re compelled to tell and you want to tell it through film. You have the story written down in a treatment or outline or about to write it out in a screenplay or you’ve already have a screenplay and now you’re [...]

Rigg Photo Workshop

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

A Sinebuano micro-documentary on the Rigg Photo Club’s workshop activities.