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Dinner with WGN Critic Dean Richards and Documentary Producer John Digles
Seldom do I find myself in a fancy enough restaurant where every course is paired with the proper wine to heighten the food’s flavor, let alone sharing great conversation with those in the industry. But last night was just that … Continue reading
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Directors Stage Shots and Block Actors with Triangles
The human eye moves around a room or watches a scene based on leading lines and points of focus. The art of capturing the eye and encouraging its movement in a specific direction is done through composition. There are many … Continue reading
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Tagged acting, actors, CJ Powers, composition, director, movie, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, The Proposal
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Movies Told in 8 Sequences
When a painter wants to capture an image on canvas from a photograph, he typically will divide the picture into quadrants in order to focus on the detail and maintain proper proportions. Filmmakers do something similar by dividing their story … Continue reading
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Best Foreign Film Oscar Nominations TBD
The Motion Picture Association of America reduced the 63 qualifying movies for Best Foreign Film down to a short list of 9 pictures. This weekend they will further reduce it to the official 5 nominations. Special committees in New York … Continue reading
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Outstanding Performance by Gary Oldman – Review
Predictions for the Best Actor Oscar seem to have overlooked Gary Oldman. His abilities to create incredible characters is surpassed by few, yet when he crafts the perfect secret agent who needs to be non-memorable, or disappear from a room … Continue reading
Writing a Striking First Image
No matter what camp of writers you follow or attempt to emulate, all know that the opening scene in a feature film must be attention getting and set the tone for the audience. If it can also introduce the main … Continue reading
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Directing Actors
I recently saw that a film festival was offering directing classes to its attending filmmakers. Directing is one of the positions on a production team that few people really understand. Many books have been written on the subject, but few … Continue reading
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Top Posts of 2011
Yesterday I reviewed who my blog readers were and which of my blog entries were most read and responded to in 2011. I learned that my blog is followed in 138 countries with the greatest reader populations being in the … Continue reading
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