The reviews on the web page for this BBC Maestro course on filmmaking featuring 27 video tutorials and 20 exercises delivered over 4 hours by Edgar Wright suggest it’s worth sharing here. What does the course cover? Write your screenplay Get your film funded and work with low budgets Choose the perfect soundtrack Learn to […]
It has been used in hundreds of films since first appearing in Distant Drums in 1951 The BBC’s Inside Cinema on how the cinema industry’s ultimate in-joke, the Wilhelm Scream, came to appear in some of best-known and most-loved films, from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises to the likes of Toy Story, Reservoir […]
If you’re a regular cinema-goer, you’ll have seen the teaser announcement for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, about the Manhattan Project and the birth of the atomic bomb, featuring the excellently simple and oh-so-effective real-time countdown to its 21 July release date. Racking up the tension second by second, it made it clear to audiences that they […]
Flite is a new film made entirely in Unreal Engine by Framestore chief creative officer Tim Webber. It is part of the FUSE (Framestore Unreal Shot Engine) project and co-production involving the VFX company and Inflammable Films. The film is “set in a semi-submerged London in 2053, and explores the nascent and underground practice of […]
Could an individual using nothing more than neural networks combine imagination and production into a single process and single-handedly oversee the creation of an acclaimed and commercially successful movie? Is AI-generated art going to be used to stimulate new forms of expression that transcend what we see on our screens today, spawning new styles and […]
Launched initially as a Kickstarter campaign – how about a pledge as a Christmas gift, folks? – the family of Georges Méliès have gathered together a collection of stories found in libraries and family archives that shed more light on the life and work one of the most intriguing and important figures in the history […]