Practical Workshop II

Our Ship She's Ready to Bear Away

The final cut of my "Leaden Hearts" trailer Throughout my production process thus far, one of my greatest challenges has been choosing...

"The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley" ~ Robert Burns, "To a Mouse"

Above is my shooting plan for the scenes in my film that would take place on location at the Stirling Old Town Jail. Once I learned of...

Trailer Structure

Challenges and Solutions After watching the first cut of my trailer on the big screen in the cinema it became glaringly clear to me that...

How experimental can historical fiction be?

I always knew that I was never what you would call an "experimental" artist or filmmaker, but I didn't realize just how safe I was. I...

Documentary Interviews

One of the lectures we had recently was about filming interviews for documentaries. I always thought this was pretty standard: sit...

The F-ing Stop

(*A title jokingly suggested by Jim Burns, but I could find no other title more fitting!) This week we examined cinematography and the...