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Promotion is a must in the film industry. Large studios in particular devote a substantial amount of resources to advertising. This is why many indie filmmakers utilise this as a model for communicating their ideas through film. There are plenty of no-cost marketing resources on the web, but it might be tough to visualise how […]

If you want to make it as a cinematographer, you need to constantly be learning and improving your craft, just like you would for any other creator. It’s simple to advise someone to “just practise,” but it takes more creativity and effort to develop novel and useful ways to learn something new every day. The art […]

The success of a film depends on many factors coming together during production. Filmmakers risk losing their credibility and, more significantly, their budget if even one detail is wrong. That’s why it’s so important to avoid the industry’s most typical (and expensive) blunders.  The ten most expensive mistakes that filmmakers make will be discussed, along […]

I’d like to share a quick anecdote with you. The crew of The Hateful Eight, directed by Quentin Tarantino, borrowed a pricey 145-year-old guitar for a scene. Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character was going to play the guitar in that scene until Kurt Russell’s character grabs it out of her hands and smashes it to pieces on […]