Archive for April, 2011
Apr
30
2011
 
“The Path is Gone”—Zack AriesPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThe last couple of days I’ve caught the online feed of the live photography class that Zack Aries has been doing at creativeLIVE which is a pretty sweet set-up. I’ve never seen a live seminar online before so that’s impressive and even more so since it’s free. And given and the fact they even went [...]
Apr
29
2011
The Rise of Storytellers with CamerasPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaOnce upon a time photographers were photographers…now they are storytellers. Even filmmakers. There’s no question that there has been an explosion of interest in film, photography and video in recent years. Of course, over the last couple of decades there has been various waves of people armed with the latest 35MM & videos cameras to [...]
Apr
28
2011
Chase Jarvis—A Creative ForcePosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“There’s just too many interesting things going on now.” Chase Jarvis “You’ll be unstoppable if you become techincal as well as creative.” Producer/director/editor/cameraman/etc. Robert Rodriguez Many times I have mentioned that one of the key mantras when I was in film school in the 80s was, “You don’t want to be a jack-of-all trades and [...]
Apr
27
2011
Michigan’s Sam Raimi & the Guy with Greasy HairPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaLong before the Coen brothers collected one of their four Oscars (Fargo, No County for Old Men) and Sam Raimi started directing the Spider—Man franchise the three worked on a little film called The Evil Dead that was released in 1981. Raimi was born in Royal Oak, Michigan and raised in Detroit where he began [...]
Apr
26
2011
The Coen Brothers on Raising MoneyPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThe following exchange is from the book My First Movie edited by Stephen Lowenstein: Joel Coen: “(To make Blood Simple) we followed the example of Sam Raimi. Sam had done this trailer, almost like a full-length version of The Evil Dead, but on Super 8. He raised like sixty or ninety thousand dollars that way, essentially by [...]
Apr
25
2011
Screenwriting Quote #154 (Tony Gilroy)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later. I think that 10 or 12 years ago I decided to try to make that happen, that I wrote fewer scripts that didn’t get made. I do some very conscious things to make that [...] Take this soul Stranded in some skin and bones Take this soul And make it sing —Yahweh, U2 Hallelujah—Bon Jovi Yahweh-U2 A Portrait of Christ—Photographer/graphic artist Jeremy Cowart In The Garden—Bob Dylan Here Was A Man—Johnny Cash Amazing Grace—Elvis “I started out in television. My basic training is television. I love the activity of television. It’s fast, there’s a lot to do. It’s a real job, you know? And I like that. I like going to work every day and having a lot of tasks to perform. I think there’s a lot of bullshit [...]
Apr
22
2011
Writing Quote #24 (Laura Hillenbrand)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“My life is one of great stillness. I can do almost nothing. I rarely leave my home. So I like to live in my work through very vigorous individuals. And I had that with Seabiscuit and I have that with this wonderful, ebullient, effervescent man, Louis Zamperini.” Author Laura Hillenbrand (Unbroken) speaking of her chronic [...] “We tend to overestimate what we can do in one year, and underestimate what we can do in ten.” Richard Foster Often times people have great big dreams for the things they want to write. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I’ve found that most writers who’ve found success at the most basic level tend [...] |
