Filmmaking
Discover the newest articles from filmmakers about their experiences, skills, and more.
There is a point at which most creatives wonder if they’ll ever get where they’re going. Usually, it comes along…
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You could point out a lot of reasons why Oscar-winner Tom Cross is one of the best editors in Hollywood.…
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Roger Deakins said, “People confuse ‘pretty’ with good cinematography.” In a way, he’s saying cinematographers’ work is more important than…
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There are a lot of action-sports films out there. A lot. Maybe that’s because in extreme sports the drama is…
When we asked Robert Legato about his success rate at achieving the impossible, he didn’t immediately answer the question. He’d…
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Danny Madden (a.k.a. Ornana) has one rule: Make films the hard way, or don’t make them at all. “Sometimes it’s…
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At some point on the way to becoming who we want to be, we have to stop being who we…
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Creativity is full of paradoxes — not the least of which is the fact that having absolute creative freedom is…
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Film editors bat cleanup in the long, long, super long process that ends if all goes well with a finished…
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As David Foster Wallace famously put it: “Of course you end up becoming yourself.” Which probably just means that everything…
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