Archives for the 'Videos' Category
The Power of Green Screens
Watch and be amazed at just how far technology has come.
A Talk with Alfred Hitchcock
Part 1 of 2
Part 2 after the page break.
The Birth of Cinema
Here’s a history lesson on the birth of cinema. Watch it, learn it, love it.
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.
Robert Rodriguez - Film is Dead
Part 1 of 2
Part two after the break.
Writing better scene openings
Screenwriter John August works through a scene to improve its opening.
Writing better action
Screenwriter John August works through a scene to improve the action.
Writing better scene description
Screenwriter John August works through a scene to improve the scene description.
Jump Cuts
As always, learn the rules before you learn to break them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_cut
