Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Product Research Resource


Movieclips

By TIME Staff Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010

Need to find a scene from your favorite film? With more than 12,000 film snippets, Movieclips has one of the most comprehensive collections available on the Web — and there's no need to wade through duplicates. You can search by film title, character name, actor or keyword. Searching for "fight" yields an interesting library of Rocky moments, period sword duels and even a pillow battle or two, whereas "first kiss" brings up famous on-screen smooches from the likes of Romeo, Scarlett O'Hara and the cast of Grease. But Movieclips is a quintessential film index with a twist. With a built-in editing tool, users can create their own video mashups with relative ease. We opted for a Wizard of Oz–Inception mashup — watch it here — and were able to create the entire thing in less than 10 minutes.

Thursday, 24 January 2013

Comparing the best & the worst

Below are two fight scenes from different productions. Comparing like scene of different quality highlights the technical and creative aspects of the scene and allows you to identify what makes a good scene more easily.

Watch the scenes below and identify how they and used the various criteria for film language to create scenes which although have simular content actually have very different results.





Pay attention to:
  • Camera shot
  • Camera movement
  • Mise-en-scene
  • Location
  • Setting
  • Framing
  • Editing
  • Character
  • costume
  • Props
  • Dialogue
  • Lighting
  • Treatment

Thursday, 8 November 2012

How to Plan a Film


Film Riot : How to Plan a Movie Shoot! - Script Breakdowns, Schedules and Budgets

Ryan talks about his way of doing pre-pro, and how to get a no-budget casting call together.



Film Riot : How to Storyboard & Schedule Your Film

Ryan finishes discussing his way of doing pre-production, with Storyboarding, lining the script and scheduling.


Tell 2012 - Ryan Connelly