Thursday 31 March 2016

CINEMATOGRAPHY Tips for low light shoots

http://nofilmschool.com/2016/03/reduce-noise-basic-tips-shooting-low-light

Friday 18 March 2016

Film PITCHING guide from executives at SXSW

 See the main pitch guide here. Pitch tag.

A hit team of Hollywood producers discussed the art of pitching at a SXSW (the Texas festival) session. Quotes are from the article by Liz Nord (2016) How Not to Pitch a Movie: Production Execs Tell All.
NB: the article contains an image which may be considered disturbing/NSFW (poor choice from a great site).
I did learn a new term from this myself: sizzle reel! Read on [click the read more] to find out what that is!
Last year, Shaked Berenson's company got 28 scripts from agents, double that number from managers, and slightly more from producers. About ten times that number were unsolicited. 
Epic Pictures Group made five films that year.
Berenson and his fellow SXSW 2016 panelists, who have decades of Hollywood producing experience between them, gave a few pointers. The group included Gudrun Giddings, CEO of G4C Innovation; Travis Stevens, CEO of Snowfort Pictures (whose film Teenage Cocktail is playing at this year’s fest); and Winnie Kemp, Director of Development at Super Deluxe/Turner.