Hollywood Camera Work

on 27 January 2006. Posted in DVD

Years in the making, The Master Course In High-End Blocking And Staging is the most comprehensive and ambitious Directing Course in the world. A groundbreaking learning tool, the course teaches high-end camera work through over 9 hours of 3D animated instruction on 6 Region-Free DVDs.

WHO'S IT FOR?

For Directors, Cinematographers,
Script Supervisors, 3D Animators, Visual Effects Artists, Game Designers, Videographers, Actors, Editors, Writers

WHAT'S IT GOOD FOR?

Besides working with actors, blocking is one of the most important things a Director does, and should be really good at. Yet most books, videos and many film schools barely touch the basics.

The Master Course is a powerful system of single-camera blocking and an unprecedented language of camera work, that may fundamentally change the way you direct.

The course was created by director Per Holmes, who spent over half a decade developing an all-inclusive language of high-end feature camera work for personal use, and then realized how much others would benefit from these techniques.

The Master Course is far beyond any current filmmaking programme, and is intended for professionals who want to take their blocking skills to the highest level, and those who are crossing over from another discipline, but can be used by filmmakers at any level who are committed to mastering high-end directing.

Room 36

on 22 January 2006. Posted in Feature film

Submitted by James MacGregor

It may have taken more than ten years for this one to come to the big screen, but it is a must-see for anyone with a liking for quirky humour, or film noir. It may be low budget, but there’s not a Lottery penny in sight. If low budget means you can end up with these production values on screen, then the UK Film Council needs to move over. They may have lost the plot, but the team behind Room 36 definitely have not. This is a stylish, nourish, production of a kind that can give British cinema a shot in the arm by restoring some much needed self-confidence. We Brits can make films at low budget levels that tell good stories well. Producer/Director Jim Groom and his team have just done it.

The Castle of Cagliostro

on 13 January 2006. Posted in Feature film

Submitted by Nic Wistreich

Early work by Hideo Miyazaki is cheap fun but lacks the depth admirers of the animation master will recognise in his later works.

Film and Video Budgets - 3rd Updated Edition

on 12 January 2006. Posted in Non-fiction book

Submitted by James MacGregor

My very first encounter with a full feature film budget was quite terrifying, simply on grounds of complexity and sheer weight and volume of paper. There were lots of “line items” all number coded, running down the left margin. Thousands of them. The bundled pages would pass muster for a telephone directory. I felt the urge to run, but I swallowed, stayed and sent for a book on film budgets. It turned out to be written by a film accountant. I am not a film accountant, so I was still baffled.