A day after the United States reflected on the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 photographer Joel Meyerowitz will be coming to the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa tonight to show some of his photos from the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. I first became aware of Meyerowitz a couple of [...]
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“Embrace the creative aspects of business.” Photographer Tamarka Lackey Philip Bloom has a post called How do I get into this filming lark and make money from it? It’s a good read in light of the proliferation of high quality, relatively low-budget cameras and editing systems available today. Mixed together with online tutorials and outlets like Vimeo [...]
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”Cities are lucky if they get a man like Lee Roy Selmon once in a generation.” Joe Henderson The Tampa Tribune The NFL season kicked off last night so allow me a slight detour today from talking about writing & movie and talk about Lee Roy Selmon who died this past Sunday. The first pro [...]
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“When you’re able to distinguish the art of the horizon at the bottom of a frame, or at the top of the frame—but not going right through the center of the frame—when you’re able to appreciate why it’s at the top and why it’s at the bottom, you might make a pretty good picture-maker.” John [...]
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Director John Ford (1894—1973) is acknowledged as one of the greats of Hollywood. Orson Wells called him cinema’s poet. On Peter Bogdanovich’s commentary track on John Ford’s The Searchers, he makes a passing comment about Ford having an accordion on the set. I was curious about what that meant. I could see music being used on sets [...]
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In the last couple of years I’ve read about how some writers write with music playing (Cameron Crowe, Stephen King, and Nancy Myers). Now you can add Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (the writing team behind Election) to that list: Jim Taylor: Music is very important to Alexander. He has a musical sensibility that’s unusual and particular [...]
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Today on my blog about Entrepreneurial Filmmaking I wrote a post about E-Filmmaker (George Lucas): “Today’s upheaval is both economic and technological. Just as the coming of age of the baby boomer audience in the seventies helped define the type of films that got made, digital technology is now making production far more democratic. As [...]
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At the end of last month I finished watching the first season of the TV program Friday Night Lights that first aired in 2006, and this week I’ll finish the strike shortened second season. Since I don’t write about about TV writers much (or hardly watch TV at all) I thought now that it’s football [...]
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If you like simplicity in screenwriting advice, then you’ll like this exchange from MovieMaker magazine issue 84 Vol 18: Jennifer M. Wood: As producer, what are three things you look for in a script? Chris Columbus: Conflict, great characters and a gripping storyline. Simple, right? Scott W. Smith 
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