With still photography things are still for the most part. Maybe a fan blowing the hair or some action is taking place but it's all a set up for a still shot. How much more complicated or what differences are most important when lighting and framing for motion picture?
I am just finishing one of Sid Field's Screenplay books "The Foundations of Screenwriting" There is a chapter on adaptions. He said a novel and a screen play are apples to oranges and you are right. You have to cut massively from a novel. A screenplay is about 120 pages long. Each scene needs to...
I enjoyed the Chinatown movie with Jack Nichols. It wasn't what I invistioned reading the script of the first ten pages but it was good and it was close the script. Some parts of it were edited out. After I finished it I started watching Sunset BLVD. What a hoot this old movie star character...
I am on chapter 7 " Setting Up the Story" of Syd Field's book The Foundations of Screenwriting. He is using Chinatown as an example of how to write the first ten pages. He basically is saying that the first ten pages is what gets your screenplay read or thrown in the garbage. Of course there are...
Added your Zoom to the Calendar and the Countdown here in the forums. You can post this in the events in the network. It is a separate section. If you're not already signed up, you would need to sign up for it. It's not integrated with this section, but it has about 15,000 members, and you can...
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