Syllabus
10 types of camera shots
Filmmaking seems like an art of endless possibilities, as long as a camera is there to film everything. But how? Here is a list of ten types of camera shots. Continue Reading
What to include in your shot list
Under the link “Video School” in Vimeo.com, you can find many interesting links, among which this useful guide for creating a shot list: What to Include in a Shot List, by Continue Reading
Photography and Philosophy
Interesting information about Flusser. The Technical Image
Film analysis of La Jetée
Here is a really good analysis of La Jetée! Chris Marker’s La Jetee Analysis: Mortality and the Illusion of Time
The camera angles you need to know
The cinematographer’s art often seems as much black magic as technique, taking a few actors milling around a set and turning it into something cinematic, evocative and occasionally iconic. Amidst Continue Reading
Screenplay Format Guide
To help you with the screenplay writing, Download and study this guide: http://www.storysense.com/SPFormat.pdf
FADE IN – How to Write a Screenplay
t’s easy to feel intimidated by the thought of writing a screenplay. The rules! The formatting! The binding! Don’t let the seemingly endless parade of screenwriting elements scare you away Continue Reading
Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for Short Stories
Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for Short Stories (A bit like Syd Field‘s rules for screenplays) 1. Use the time of a total stranger [your viewer] in such a way that he Continue Reading
Johan Grimonprez – Against Documentary
1.Choose a title carefully, since it is the one of the primary framing devices. It should present itself purely as a description of the images contained in the work, but Continue Reading