This past weekend, I went to the closing night of the R2R Family Film Festival. It’s great to see family-friendly films from around the world on the big screen… but I digress. Sometimes in a movie there’s a line that really rings true and you know you’re going to remember it for, well, probably for […]
FILM: Doing A Little Bit More… with Signage
I went to a local dog off leash park, and found probably the best location filming announcement ever: Yup, one for the humans (“park users” / at human eye-level) and one for the dogs (at dog eye-level). Doubt you can read the dog announcement in the wide shot, but it goes like this: “Woof woof woof…”: […]
3 Things I Learned About Filmmaking from… an Art Museum
I’ve explored numerous art museums around the world, but it’s the one in Chicago that recently revealed these truths to me: 1.One Subject, Numerous Possibilities of Expression Each artist will see the subject in a unique way – or in many unique ways. A haystack, a bridge, the Eiffel Tower… see any of them through […]
Big Budget Spokes
Low budget equals fewer cast & crew, each with the responsibility of several jobs. It’s easy to feel essential to the entire production. Then there is big budget… Big budget equals larger – and sometimes MUCH larger – cast & crew, the work spread over so many more people. When you examine your individual role, […]
Inspiration at the Movies: The Count of Monte Cristo
“You call it 50 degrees… I say two points more north by north east.” – Edmond Dantes (The Count of Monte Cristo, 1975) Perspectives! How true that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently depending from where each of us have journeyed in life. Our personal histories and experiences colour […]