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The Power of Green Screens

Watch and be amazed at just how far technology has come.

02/21/2010 | Cinematography, Videos | No Comments

A Talk with Alfred Hitchcock

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11/28/2009 | Videos | No Comments

The Birth of Cinema

Here’s a history lesson on the birth of cinema. Watch it, learn it, love it.

10/25/2009 | Videos | No Comments

Short film spotlight: Robert Rodriguez’s Bedhead

Bedhead is a 1991 short family-comedy-fantasy film directed and co-written by Robert Rodriguez. Made while he was a student at the University of Texas at Austin, Rodriguez shot the film with his brothers and sisters as actors and with his family and friends as crew. The short film was then entered into several competitive film festivals, where it won cash prizes, money that Rodriguez then used to produce his first feature film, El Mariachi.

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10/07/2009 | Videos | No Comments

Robert Rodriguez - Film is Dead

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09/26/2009 | Videos | No Comments

Writing better scene openings

Screenwriter John August works through a scene to improve its opening.

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04/29/2009 | Screenwriting, Videos | No Comments

Writing better action

Screenwriter John August works through a scene to improve the action.

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04/13/2009 | Screenwriting, Videos | No Comments

Writing better scene description

Screenwriter John August works through a scene to improve the scene description.

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04/06/2009 | Screenwriting, Videos | No Comments

Jump Cuts

As always, learn the rules before you learn to break them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_cut

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01/14/2009 | Editing, Videos | No Comments

FreshDV Film School: Director’s Course

10/22/2008 | Directing, Videos | No Comments