People already asking about my Christmas plans, so guess it's time for one of the most hopeful, jaded, noirs of them all:
every instance of coffee in noir: 035
speaking of eclipses, and particularly how to film people looking at them: shotzero.substack.com/p/filming-a-...
How many ways can you watch a solar eclipse like today’s ‘Ring of Fire’ ?
What makes a compelling teaser? ShotZero jumps back in time and space to see how the first #DoctorWhoopen.substack.com/pub/shotzero...
editing promos which convey a show's themes, genre, and content
The next installment in my persistent search to definitively answer the question “why do films made or set in the 80s, where queer women fight and/or make up in classic vehicles, use such strong, stunning colours?” is #DesertHeartsshotzero.substack.com/p/colour-the...
Recently we talked about colour theory in Blue Jean and Love Lies Bleeding — so guess a good opening question is “why do films made or set in the 80s, where queer women fight and/or make up in classic...
"Ultimately, in exploring these three power films through this lens [of talking directly to audience], we discover that these tools give filmmakers more control in conveying their theme. Quelle surprise." draft-zero.com/2024/dz-113/
What tools help ensure that you as the filmmaker are not misunderstood? In our final (ha!) episode looking at Talking Directly to the Audience, we turn away from character-and-text based craft tools t...
oh no I now have an overwhelming need to watch a movie which is About Something Else Specific but really Gets To The Heart Of American History and Violence but which must have starkly Red poster