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Quentin Tarantino shelves western “The Hateful Eight” after script leak

‘Very very depressed’ director alleges agent of Michael Madsen or Bruce Dern may have been responsible for script ending up online. Quentin Tarantino has shelved plans to direct western The Hateful Eight, his followup to Django Unchained, after the film’s script was leaked. Speaking to Deadline, an angry Tarantino said he would publish the screenplay … Read more

Bafta whistleblower says voters reward big-budget movies they have never seen

It is widely considered one of the world’s most important film awards ceremonies, one that sits behind only the Oscars and the Golden Globes in terms of public notoriety. But a whistleblower has told the Daily Mail that the winners and nominees for the annual Bafta awards are often chosen by judges who have not … Read more

A Step-by-Step Guide to Pre-Production for Film and Video

Concept This is where you develop your story, its structure, and plot points. Ideas often are drawn from personal experiences or ripped from the headlines. Maybe it’s a story you were told as a child, or a product of your own wild imagination. At its most basic level, a concept should be able to be … Read more

Beginners Tips for Video Post Production

After spending a lot of time improving your photography and filming skills. To film something well is almost the same as taking a good photograph. The same values apply. First of all learn how your camera works. Think about how to take a good photograph or video clip, If you can’t do that then no … Read more

Top tips on getting into the animation industry

Animation is probably the best industry to be in, attractive also! Many people are wanting to get into it because it’s exciting, full of adventures and let’s not forget, super cool! How do you do it? Read below for the route into the industry! • Play around with animation. • Whilst studying in school or … Read more

Best animation tips & tricks

Animate acting shots one phrase at a time It’s best to have clear full-body posing in your phrases at the expense of smooth transitions, especially early on. Animation follows beats and phrases, each with its own purpose. For a scene in which a store clerk is helping a customer, one phrase might be him waving … Read more

The 13 Steps of Post Production

The three stages to film-making are Pre-production, Production and Post-production. Pre-production is where you try and convince everyone that your film is about to start shooting. Many filmmakers are in a continuous pre-production stage. It’s the nervous stage where you wait for financial commitments to materialize, and for cast and crew to agree that they … Read more

10 ways Directors must think like a line producer

10 ways Directors must think like a line producer A no-to-low budget director is a person of many hats and throughout the production, at different times and at the same time be a writer, executive producer, director, line producer and even the editor. This is just a mirror image of how a no-to-low budget forces … Read more

11 Tips for Location Scouting

All filmmakers will have experienced that horrific shoot where the SD card fills up or the battery dies at the wrong moment during filming, and you hope it never happens again. But there’s one important factor which you may not have thought of, and it’s as vital as spare SD cards and batteries. We’re on … Read more

Edgar Wright, a director with the superpowers Marvel Studios need

It seems a little unfair to criticise Marvel Studios, given the Disney-owned production unit’s spectacular success over the past decade. And yet in among the remarkable $1bn-plus box-office returns and critical fervour for movies such as Iron Man 3 and The Avengers, there has been the odd rumbling of discontent from those who have worked … Read more

New Mexico landfill to be dug up in search of ‘buried’ ET video games

ET is one of the most successful movies of all time, but the Atari video game it inspired proved one of the biggest flops in history and ended, legend has it, with the mass burial of millions of unsold games and the near-collapse of the gaming company. On Saturday, a team of contractors, guided by … Read more

Four Weddings and a Funeral 20 years on: Richard Curtis remembers

In the early 1990s, when screenwriter Richard Curtis and producer Duncan Kenworthy were brought together by Working Title to make a film – a mid-budget comedy to be directed by Mike Newell, something about weddings, strong on morning suits, one-liners, obscenity – Curtis made a suggestion. He told Kenworthy: keep bits. Put aside what mementos … Read more

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