Archive for the “Screenwriting From Iowa” Category
Nov
07
2016
 
The Night Baseball Got Born AgainPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaTo paraphrase what David Mamet once said about the theater—Baseball is always dying and always being reborn. The Chicago Cubs winning the final game of a best of seven game World Series was the stuff of high drama. A couple of years ago I wrote a post called Screenwriting and the Super Bowl. This post […] The Cleveland Indians host the Chicago Cubs tonight in the deciding World Series game. The Indians haven’t won a World Series since 1948 and the Cubs since 1908. And both teams also have a bit of Hollywood history with Major League (1989) written by David S. Ward and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) written by […] “In the entire history of theater, it would be difficult to think of a play that’s more purely American than Bleacher Bums.” Los Angeles Times review If the Chicago Cubs lose tonight there will be some happy Cubs fans. That’s not a typo. Yes, the Cleveland Indians fans will be happy if there team wins […]
Oct
27
2016
Postcard #105 (Wrigley Field)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaDo they still play the blues in Chicago When baseball season rolls around A Cub’s Fan Dying Request/Steve Goodman Last night the Chicago Cubs won their first World Series game in 71 years. It was kind of a big deal for the Windy City. Tomorrow the Cubs host the Cleveland Indians in the first World […] In continuing a sweeping overview of various people and jobs that help make movies, today I’ve found five videos that explain and demonstrate sound design from the perspective of foley. While Hollywood feature films will have a team working on sound design, the techniques that are shown here can be scaled down to smaller idependent […] “For a writer, it’s a word. For a composer or a musician, it’s a note. For an editor and a filmmaker, it’s the frames.” Quentin Tarantino “The sad fact was the shark [in JAWS] would only look real in 36 frames not 38 frames. And that two frame difference was between something really scary and […] Jacob T. Swinney’s First and Final Frames videos show the collaboration of filmmakers. Unless it’s in the shooting script it’d be almost impossible to know in every film featured when these opening and closing shots came together to complete the arc of the story. I imagine the final results are the credit of either the screenwriters, […] Jacob T. Swinney’s First and Final Frames videos show the collaboration of filmmakers. Unless it’s in the shooting script it’d be almost impossible to know in every film featured when these opening and closing shots came together to complete the arc of the story. I imagine the final results are the credit of either the screenwriters, […]
Oct
20
2016
Recording Audio for Film & TV (Boom!)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaIn less than an hour these hand picked videos I found on the Internet give you a sweeping overview of sound recording (mostly from the perspective of boom operating) for film & Tv—as well as webisodes, and video production in general. And, of course, it covers one of the most iconic pieces of equipment found […]
Oct
19
2016
Cinematography (Light & Shadows)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaIn keeping with Sydney Lumet’s quote that “moviemaking works very much like an orchestra” today’s post is a video that looks a little more into cinematography. Beyond having an appreciation for those that help translate screenplays into visual images, this video will help you think cinematically. With an army of film schools grads, others workshops trained, […] |
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