I have seen a lot of student shorts in the last few years. After a while you begin to see recurring storylines, styles and characters. This is about one of those characters. The Magical Stranger narrative proceeds as follows: We are introduced to a protagonist (hopefully) with a problem; be it their[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Student Films’
October 10th, 2010 - 7:35 pm § in Film School, Filmmaking
A Student Film Manifesto: What Are Your Thoughts?
This comes from fellow TFT Directing classmate Ben Arfmann. http://jdcopp.blogspot.com/2007/01/francois-truffaut-certain-tendency.html I’ll keep this short guys, but read (hopefully re-read) Truffaut’s attack on the “tradition of quality” in French cinema. We’re in a [...]
July 27th, 2010 - 8:53 pm § in Film School, Filmmaking
A Son Like You on Kickstarter!
My Kickstarter Page A few weeks ago I began the process of raising funds to get my last short film, A Son Like You, through post-production. This is a lengthy process that includes a colorist who cleans up the image, digital transfer to HD, foley (SFX) work, sound mastering and mixing, and DVD creat[...]
July 20th, 2010 - 8:33 pm § in Contemporary Short Films, Film School
The Swimming Lesson
The Swimming Lesson is the story of a young girl who takes extreme measure to get her overworked father to go swimming with her. The Swimming Lesson is the first film I made at UCLA. We were given four hours and one roll of 16mm film (about 10 minutes) to shoot a film.[...]
10 Problems With Student Scripts
After my first year at film school I have spent a lot of time with short screenplays. I’ve written around 20 or so at this point, and have dealt with almost all of these difficulties in my own writing. In the last few years I’ve seen a lot of short films, and these are the [...][...]
May 23rd, 2010 - 12:15 am § in Film School, Filmmaking
The Thesis Film in the Era of the Microbudget
Jared Moshé recently published an article entitled “The Microbudget is the New Short,” where he comments that the microbudget feature is “essentially the new and improved version of the short film.” This is an idea that has been floating around for some time. As the microbud[...]
February 5th, 2009 - 11:49 pm § in Filmmaking
D.U.M.P.S.
I was critiquing a friend’s short script today and I had to remember this list. It is both funny and tragic.[...]