My favorite music videos generally tell a story, and are essentially silent movies. Since the featured song fills the audio track, the filmmaker’s job is to create a narrative through visual means only. Spike Jonze has directed a really interesting portfolio of music videos. Some of them are mainly neat …
Independent film director Hal Hartley has been making movies, including many shorts, since the 1980s beginning with “The Unbelievable Truth“. His first short, “Theory of Achievement“, was made with money left over from an art grant funding another of his films (“Surviving Desire“). Hal Hartley monetizes his short films by collecting them …
A short film can be a vehicle to illuminate the special talents or unappreciated, against-type abilities of an actor or actress. Without waiting for a director or producer to notice your potential, just craft a project with yourself in mind. This is why several projects I’ve written are vehicles to …
Traditional copyright did not have computers in mind when it was designed. Computers are very good at copying. When I move a file from my computer to my memory stick, I am in in a very strict sense violating copyright. Instead of updating the copyright laws to reflect twenty-first century …
Just had to share. This is funny, movie related, and frankly hits a little close to home. Maybe some insight into the trajectory of the entertainment industry is to be gleaned from pondering this chart. But mainly, it made me laugh.
The entertainment industry is a notoriously difficult place to build a paying career. I encourage people who want to break in to do something else for a living, and use the income from that other thing to finance their creative careers. Here are some ways that emerging actors and actresses …