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What changes when you take off your writer hat and put on your director hat? In this compendium episode, John, Craig, and Scriptnotes coordinator Lauren Loesberg review directing a...
If you've ever written a script, you know what it's like to inhabit a world and its characters. You've basically lived inside the pages. You know every character's backstory, the w...
By Kristin Marting. On 26 October 2026, TORCHES concludes with advice for up and coming artists from the thirty plus TORCHES artists.
Gavin Gaitan (who we've written about before) is a Los Angeles writer/producer/director with three self-financed features to his name. His most recent, Down Town, is a 24-hour absu...
Chances are, if you want to make stuff, you want to work with actors. And let's just say they can be an intense bunch.Don't get me wrong, I love actors, and I get excited about pla...
Eyelines are one of those invisible elements of filmmaking. When they work, you don't notice them at all. When they don't… whew, it's bad, and it's obvious. If you have a scene whe...
I am of the mind that you can get lessons in directing from any movie you watch. Good or bad, there are things you can latch onto to decide how you want to do things, and visuals t...
You've got the script. Maybe you know where to get a camera. You have somewhere that will let you shoot. Now you need someone to say your words on camera, and maybe you know an act...
I think the biggest problem in Hollywood right now is that studios and production companies are trying to save a buck, so they treat everyone as an auteur and ask them to write and...
Sometimes you want a film to just do the fundamentals well, and for a movie that gets some of the basic filmmaking things right, maybe without too much flash or flair, you have to...
You can name every shot type, from a medium close-up to an over-the-shoulder, and still freeze when it's time to decide where the camera actually goes. That hesitation is often wha...
In a time when independent filmmaking is more accessible than it’s ever been, the intimidation factor is still the number one thing that holds creatives back from taking the big le...
How do you find your creative voice? Actually, what is a creative voice?Simply put, your creative voice is how your perspective and experiences shape the way you tell stories. Your...
Earlier this week, we covered how the late, great Sir Sean Connery passed on several prominent projects because he didn't "get" them. Like, he didn't understand The Lord of the Rin...
“Sometimes you’ll get a note, ‘This scene is boring, can we put in a car chase?’ What you should take from that note is this scene, this quiet scene you intended to be emotionally...
"There are three different drafts of a screenplay in the development process. The first screenplay is for the studio, when they say, 'Okay, we like this.'The second screenplay you...
You know the age-old story of the Hollywood hopeful hopping on a bus somewhere in the Midwest and making the big move to the city of stars, Los Angeles, where movies and dreams are...
If you've ever written a screenplay, you probably know that finishing the dang thing is only half the battle. Now you have to read it back and figure out if it's good or not. And y...
Most indie post-production schedules are built around work: assembly, rough cut, fine cut, picture lock, sound, colour, deliverables. Very few are built around decisions. Yet that...
You always want your opening sequence to grab attention. How can you set up your story and hook the audience, all in one go? And how can you do it on a low budget but still get tha...
A creative director shapes the vision behind every video. Here's what the role covers, how it differs from a director, and when your brand needs one. The post What Is a Creative Di...
Producer Nick Morton spent 30 years in Hollywood, first as a development executive at Philip Anschutz's Bristol Bay Productions on films like Ray and Sahara, then at Phoenix Pictur...
TL;DR For two-person AI video scenes, I now split the work into two passes: approve a still image first, then animate only that composition. It makes failures easier to diagnose...
Do you know how long it takes to make a film? It’s, like, a really long process. It takes a long time. That is, if you’re doing it right from development to release.What does that...
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