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"The Difference Between Looking and Seeing for A Filmmaker, or Any Artist"
A valuable lesson I learned in art school was to challenge myself to see what lay before my eyes intentionally and objectively.
Before I became a filmmaker, I spent years studying fine art. In one of the most important assignments, I remember the class was asked to take off one of our shoes and draw it. We all set one shoe upright on the desk in front of us and gave our best efforts.
Then our instructor told us to turn the shoe upside down and draw it again.
Comparing the results after we were done revealed that for most of us, the upside-down shoe was the most accurately rendered of the two.
Why might that be?...
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Digital Edition Table of Contents
DIRECTING
04 How to Direct an Opening Scene By Kaine Levy
07 Pace ² By David K. Irving
CINEMATOGRAPHY
08 A Conversation with David Moxness, ASC, CSC
Interview conducted by Johnny Lee Solis
10 A Plan for Late Lunch By Hiro Narita, ASC
14 The Art of Breaking Down a Script Is Essential for a DP By Mark Dobrescu, CSC
LIGHTING
18 Lighting Without Lights By Jared Isham
SCRIPTWRITING
20 Loren-Paul Caplin on Writing Film Dialogue
21 How to Survive the Room Notes on Nightmare Notes By David B. Carren
SOUND
22 The Art of Dialogue Recording and Audio Positions in Film & TV By Mathew Price, CAS
POST-PRODUCTION
26 CGI and Rhythm with Sidney Wolinsky, ACE
27 Forming Thematic and Visual Language in the
Cutting Room with Pietro Scalia, ACE
28 Balancing Humor and Story Needs in Post-
Production with Richard Sanchez
DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING
30 Visual Style in Documentary Filming By John Klein
ACTING
31 How to Be a Good Team Player as an Actor on
Smaller Projects By Sara Sue Vallee
FILM BUSINESS
32 How to Begin Preparing for Submitting Your Films to Film Festivals By Anthony Straeger
34 Nancy Wolff Discusses 'Copyright' in a Digital World
AWARD-WINNING FILM
36 Kate Namowicz, on "Mime Your Manners"
38 Darius Dawson on Directing "A Rodeo Film"
42 João Dall'Stella on "Dia De Las Carpas"
FILMMAKERS GLOBAL NETWORK
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT
45 Mattias Holmgren
Creative Director, Composer, Sound Designer
46 Job Michiel van Zuijlen
Director, Writer, Animator
47 Joseph Forte
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