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by Marc Lougee – In April 2007, I dropped a little article here on the workbookproject.com laying out a very basic DSLR/ shooting system that I had assembled for production of the stop motion animated short film, Ray Harryhausen Presents: The Pit and the Pendulum. Using Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera’s in place of traditional film camera’s we’d found a high quality, cost effective digital alternative to 35mm film.
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This edition of TCIBR is brought to you by IndieFlix – Our guest today is writer, co-director and star of THE BEACH PARTY AT THE THRESHOLD OF HELL, Kevin Wheatley. On Oct. 19th, National Lampoon will release the film theatrically in 27 cities. Kevin discusses how he and co-director Jonny Gillette created a post apocalyptic political comedy with limited resources and how they plan on reaching their audience.
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By Christy Dena –
In 1917 poet Guillaume Apollinaire gave a lecture, L’Esprit Nouveau et les Poetès, on what he described as the ‘visible and unfolded book of the future’. He wrote that creators in the future will, ‘like conductors of an orchestra of unbelievable scope,’ have at ‘their disposal the entire world, its noises and its appearances, the thought and language of man, song, dance, all the arts and all …
This edition of POV comes from Christopher Rice. He has worked professionally as a script reader and is now working on his own material. In “May the Spec be with You!”, Christopher shares some insight into the process and gives a glimpse of what a reader looks for in a spec script.
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Our guest today is JT Petty. JT is an accomplished author, screenwriter and director. Over the last few years he has moved fluidly between films, games and novels. When it comes to film he has directed two features; Soft for Digging (sundance 2001) and Mimic 3: Sentinel (Dimension Films). In addition he has a new disturbing doc entitled Sandman (HDNET) which has been playing to rave reviews on the festival …
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Our guest today is screenwriter Stephen Susco. Over the last decade Stephen has optioned many scripts, been hired to adapt various materials by major studios, and experienced first hand what it’s like to work within the system. His screen credits include The Grudge, which grossed over 110 million dollars domestically. In our discussion Stephen explains how he got his break, the way he pitches a project, and what a wild …
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Today’s guest is filmmaker Joe Swanberg. Over the last three years Joe has made four features Kissing on the Mouth, LOL, Hannah takes the Stairs, Nights and Weekends and a web series for Nerve called Young American Bodies. He makes personal lo-fi films with a core of collaborators (Mark Duplass, Andrew Bujalski, Greta Gerwig, Kent Osborne, Ry Russo-Young, Kevin Bewersdorf and Todd Rohal) similar in approach to the way John …
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Today’s guest is writer / director Patty Jenkins. In 2003, Patty made her first feature film entitled Monster. In the film Charlize Theorn plays serial killer Aileen Wuornos. The film was well received by critics and audiences, and Theorn went on to win an Academy Award for her performance. In our discussion Patty explains what it took to package Monster and the struggles to make such an emotionally charged …
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