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The SHOTS are all you have. Film Directing SHOTS

Originally posted on Matthew Toffolo's Summary:
FILM SHOTS FILMMAKING NOTES Interview with Oscar Nominated Production Designer Michael Corenblith FILM DIRECTING SHOTS – One of the most over used cliches in film is “The Shots are all you have.” The following are what you need to think about practically so you can think creatively and…

SOUND Design, Effects, and Musical Design in Film. Tips

Originally posted on Matthew Toffolo's Summary:
SOUND DESIGN FILMMAKING NOTES Film Post Production and What Is Sound Design? The process of creating the soundtrack for the visuals of a film. Since silent films began to talk, filmmakers have been looking to improve the post production of their film. It has become a whole new…

What is a Production Manager?

Originally posted on Matthew Toffolo's Summary:
PRODUCTION MANAGER FILMMAKING NOTES The Job of Production Management is the job of organization, budgeting, scheduling and preparing for everything. POINTS OF A PRODUCTION MANAGER 1. Prepare breakdown and preliminary shooting schedule 2. Prepare and coordinate the budget 3. Oversee preliminary search and survey of all locations and…

Writing PLOT for your Story and Screenplay

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PLOT WRITING FILMMAKING NOTES How to Write a Screenplay? PART 3 – PLOT Screenwriting For most writers, PLOT is the most interesting part of screenplay writing, and why they begin to write to write the script in the first place. They have a good idea for a story,…

TV Spec of TRANSPARENT “The Board Shorts”, by Marissa Lessman

  Genre: Comedy, Drama Maura is haunted by her old life as Josh and Ali set up a garage sale while Sarah and Shelley try to throw the perfect Purim party resulting in an unexpected outcome. CAST LIST: Gary:  Allan Cooke Ali: Rachel Rain Packota Josh: Geoff Mays Narrator: Olivia Jon Maura: Shawn Devlin Shelley: Lesley Ballantyne Sarah: Jennifer Vallance Get to… Continue reading TV Spec of TRANSPARENT “The Board Shorts”, by Marissa Lessman

TV PILOT Best Scene Reading – WHAT THE HELL, by Melissa Willis

  Genre: Comedy A single-camera comedy that follows a free-spirited young woman who’s lost everything and her four friends who are all forced to recreate their lives and themselves one humiliating, semi-permanent situation at a time. Cast List: Jamie: James Dooley Narrator: Val Cole Amy: Kelci Stephenson The Messenger: Gary Graham Get to know the writer: 1. What is… Continue reading TV PILOT Best Scene Reading – WHAT THE HELL, by Melissa Willis

TV PILOT 1st Scene Script – JAKOB’S COVE, by Travis Darkow

  Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Suspense A crazy mash up of The X-Files and Supernatural, but with more violence, old school noir detective movies like The Maltese Falcon, and the soundtrack style of Stranger Things or It Follows, 80’s synthesizer and all. CAST LIST: Narrator: Peter Nelson Det. Jameson: Neil Bennett Get to know the writer:   1. What… Continue reading TV PILOT 1st Scene Script – JAKOB’S COVE, by Travis Darkow

TV PILOT 1st Scene Reading – BY TOUCH, by Robert Cox

Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama Anton Michaels is a college professor with a gift. To some people in the police force Anton is used to help catch criminals with his abnormal psychometric abilities. After an explosion at a nuclear power plant leaves one man as a prime suspect, Anton is called in by his friend Father John… Continue reading TV PILOT 1st Scene Reading – BY TOUCH, by Robert Cox