Two films that I adore have very obvious camera bumps in them: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, and Punch Drunk Love. In both films there is a moment when the camera suddenly jilts and (in my case) you become aware for a moment that you’re watching a movie.
If the camera bumps [...]
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Camera Bumps in Film
Posted in Filmmaking, Top 130 Movies: A List, tagged camera bumps, master and commander, Punch-Drunk Love, Roger Elswit, Russell Boyd, Steadicam mistakes, The Far Side of the World on July 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Hitchhiker better than Shyamalan’s latest?
Posted in Filmmaking, Movies, tagged aleks paunovic, gina chiarelli, James Tocher, Jason Goode, Norman Wilner, short film, the hitchhiker, Wildsound Film Festival on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t take my word for it. Watch NOW Toronto magazine film critic, Norman Wilner, as he moderates audience responses to The Hitchhiker at the June 2008 Wildsound Film Festival screening where it won the Audience Award for Best Overall Performances and Best Cinematography. (Congrats to the cast, Aleks Paunovic and Gina Chiarelli; and to James [...]
Filmmaking: The Difficulty in Staging Protests
Posted in Filmmaking, Movies, tagged battle in seattle, commerical drive, Filmmaking, protests on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The art of filmmaking is the art of creating reality: people, place, purpose. We construct the objects, the characters, the space and even the light within the frame in such way that the viewer believes there is a continuity of this world beyond the frame. And most movies that you see in theatres or [...]
Short Film Update: Pop Switch
Posted in Filmmaking, Movies, tagged Filmmaking, Movies, Pop Switch, short film on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have not be blogging for the last couple of months because I’m putting all of my free time into prep for my next short film, Pop Switch, written by Lucia Frangione. Its a 15 minute film is about a middle-aged man coming to terms with becoming a father in his late 40s.
My producer, Krista [...]
