Archive for May, 2011
May
21
2011
 
Project Greenlight 2 (Part 5)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“You gotta respect Bill (Sadler) for even coming in and trying this. You literally have to come in and shoot the biggest, hardest scene you have in the movie—that’s a lot to ask from an actor.” Chris Moore In Project Greenlight 2 (Part 4) I touched on how well the experienced crew shinned in the [...]
May
20
2011
Project Greenlight 2 (Part 4)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaRarely do you get a full glimpse into the behind the scene making of a film, so although Project Greenlight 2 first aired on HBO in 2003 there are some valuable things to learn watching the DVD series. While I’m sure some of the conflict is contrived during the 13 episodes, there are some basic [...]
May
19
2011
Project Greenlight 2 (Part 3)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThe winners directors of Project Greenlight 2 back in 2002 were two filmmakers from Maine, Kyle Rankin and Efram Potelle. They had got their start in production while in middle school and high school with a Maine Student Film and Video Festival. In 1996 the made a feature in Maine called Raindeer Games (not to [...]
May
18
2011
Project Greenlight 2 (Part 2)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“After I read the script The Battle of Shaker Heights I was dying to get in touch with the writer. I read a lot of scripts and it’s almost never happened to me that I found material that I connected to so much that I wanted to direct it and it’s pretty ironic and amazing [...]
May
17
2011
Project Greenlight 2 (Part 1)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaMany years ago I was told I should watch Project Greenlight 2. I loved the first Project Greenlight where Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris Jones help Pete Jones write and direct his first feature film, Stolen Summer. So I finally picked up the DVD for Project Greenlight 2, The Battle of Shaker Heights on [...]
May
16
2011
Earl Newton & “Stranger Things”Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“When Earl Newton was 10, he convinced his friends he was born on another planet.” The Destin Log “Long before Robert Rodriguez, (Russian filmmaker Seigei Eisnstein) was the original writer/director/editor. Here was a man, similar to myself, far from Hollywood, figuring out movies without a film school (in his case, none existed yet).” Earl Newton [...] Oscar-nominated screenwriter Arthur Laurents died earlier this month at the age of 93. While his Oscar nominations were both for the 1977 film The Turning Point, he’s better known for his screenplays Rope (1948) and The Way We Where. But perhaps he’s most well-known for writing the book of the musical West Side Story for [...]
May
14
2011
Filmmaking Quote #16 (David Mamet)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa “My approach to directing is to figure out what the movie’s about, how each section contributes to that, figure out how each scene contributes to that section, and figure out how each beat contributes to that scene; and then get the movie shot by shot so that you’re telling the story the best way possible; [...] Austin-based food photographer Penny De Los Santos has traveled extensively throughout the United States and to more than 30 foreign countries shooting assignments for National Geographic, Martha Stewart Living, Saveur Magazine and others. Yet she has advice for those who think you must travel far away to find interesting stories: “There are great stories in [...]
May
13
2011
Writing Quote #24 (Elmore Leonard)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I’ve always said: If it sounds like writing, revise it. After World War II, I found Hemingway. I loved his style, the white space on his pages, that you could tell a story with dialogue. Reading Hemingway inspired me to think about my own sound on the page. I would copy down a paragraph from [...] |
