#film production

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Shining - On-set photographs (c. 1979)

#the shining #behind the scenes #80s horror #stanley kubrick #jack nicholson #shelley duvall #scatman crothers #jack torrance #overlook hotel #filmmaking #film production #80s movies #seventies #1979

[thecrashcourse]

Congratulations to Lily Gladstone on her Golden Globe win!

Lily won Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon. She's also the host of Crash Course Film Production!

#lily gladstone #golden globes #film #film production #film studies #crash course #education #arts education

[kouhaiofcolor]

We absolutely need more Black voice actors. Tons more. I’d love to see it become a rise in popular professions among Black People — esp Black Women. More Black Women voice acting for cartoon characters, anime characters, Disney characters, etc.

#black tumblr #black twitter #voice acting #voice actors #blm #black dollars matter #mine.txt #black excellence #anime #black representation #black women #black girls #pro black #black cartoons #cartoons #animation #cgi animation #project concepts #film production

[xxautumnivyxx]

Shhh- some secret behind the scenes no context images of Bittertooth - Super excited we will be at TCL Chinese Theater on Feb 24th for another ON SCREEN DEBUT!!

#autumn ivy #autumnivy #cosplayer #the bone collector #narrator #actor #costumer #amazon #alternative #cosplay #film production #horror film #independent film

[millionreasonsss]

Lady Gaga as Harleen Quinzell on the set of Jocker 2.

#lady #lady gaga #Gaga #dc #dc comcis #jocker #edit #filming #film production #Batman

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Good films can be made only by a crew of dedicated maniacs.

- Sir David Lean, director of Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

#lean #david lean #quote #film director #film #film crew #movies #cinema #british #lawrence of arabia #icon #film production #arts #culture

[arcadebroke]

#H.R. Giger #Ridley Scott #Alien #design #film production #video

[sentienceisoverrated]

Things I miss about old tv shows:

1. Set Designs

One thing I miss most is actual tangible set designs. There used to be a handful of sets that would get used time and time again, and the characters actually interacted with them. Sets now look so damn clinical and clean, characters barely interact with them (mostly because half of all sets are almost entirely CGI) and they barely change over the course of a season or episode. Reflect your characters’ mental states by their rooms. Make them messy, dirty, have characters comment on the state of certain sets. Come on make them UNIQUE. And not in the way of just the objects either, make them unkempt or overflowed and mix up the lighting a bit.

2. Actual Episodic Structure

Most TV shows I’ve watched that came out in the last few years have had a continuous plot. Which is great. It makes me invested in the story, makes me excited for the next episode. But unless done correctly, it can feel like nothing was actually achieved in those episodes. Often it comes that a character spends the entire episode trying to do something, only for their plan to unravel right at the end of the episode and the next episode to be set up. It makes me feel like nothing was actually completed. Every episode is designed to set up for the next one and in some cases this works, but in others it doesn’t. An episodic structure is where each episode has its own individual storyline that may or may not add to the overall plot. Avatar: The Last Airbender used this structure, as did the Star Trek series (excluding season 2~ of Discovery) and BBC Merlin. A structure like this adds considerably more to character development and subsequent relationships between characters before moving on to more plot-driven antics, which in turn raises the stakes.

3. Fantasy Lighting

This, I believe, is self-describing. TV shows are too dark. I can’t see. Even if you want to establish how dark a setting is, there is still usually a source of light that a character is holding. It’s enough to make us actually see what’s going on, so let us. Please. And, anyway, it’s fiction. Doesn’t have to always be 100% realistic.

4. Filler Episodes

This comes in tandem with episode numbers. I do understand that in production the creators don’t have much time to film and edit before release. But. Where did the 20 episode seasons go? A lot of series are being released half-and-half, but even if it’s weekly, most people I know would be fine with it as long as each episode is produced to the best of the ability of the creators. I also miss fillers. Give me those character shenanigans. No plot, just pure antics. Those episodes keep me alive.

4. CGI Consistency

I will always maintain the opinion that good CGI relies on how consistent its quality is throughout a film, season or episode. Personally, I don’t care how good the CGI is so long as it remains relatively the same level throughout what I’m watching. I see this a lot in recent tv shows *cough* marvel *cough* where one scene will have the most spectacular CGI ever seen and another looks more like a low-budget animated kids show. It breaks immersion. I’m not into it. Just give me bad CGI all the way through. Or, on contrast, no CGI whatsoever. Construct scenes using actual corporeal sets and makeup. I miss funky little puppets.

(Note: this is opinion based. Feel free to agree or disagree, add or remove. I won’t contend)

#demand means that a lot of shows that follow these points get pushed under the rug #see: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds #some of these problems also come from the fact that corporations don’t give their employees enough fucking time #creativity dies when deadlines are inflexible #I hate corporations #films #tv shows #film #shows #film production #tv show production #I don’t know how to tag this #disney #netflix #adding those there because I have a particular bone to pick

[visceral-rage]

This semester I'll have to make a short film based on David Fincher's directing style for uni!! It's gonna be a long long project. Right now I'm gathering as much information as I can, so if you know any good resource I would totally appreciate it!!!!

I'm mainly looking for

- books/blogs/articles on David Fincher

- tips on filmmaking

- tips on cameras, lights, sets

- anything else that could be useful!

I'd be so so thankful!! 💛💛💛

#david fincher #cinema #fincher #se7en #gone girl #fight club #zodiac #the social network #the girl with the dragon tattoo #film #filmmaking #film production #film project

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Fabelmans (2022, Steven Spielberg)

12/20/22

#The Fabelmans #Steven Spielberg #Michelle Williams #Gabriel LaBelle #Paul Dano #Seth Rogen #Judd Hirsch #David Lynch #Tony Kushner #2020s #drama #autobiographical #biography #directors #film production #childhood #coming of age #mother and son #families #Hollywood #Arizona #high school #bullying #Jewish #antisemitism #teenagers #cinephilia #cinema #nostalgia #oscar bait

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Crow concept art by Darren Gilford and Peter Pound (c. 1992)

#darren gilford #peter pound #the crow #movie concept art #brandon lee #eric draven #alex proyas #james o'barr #film production #devil's night #gothic art #90s movies #1990s #1992 #1994

[filmcourage]

A Movie Won't Feel Right Without These Two Things - Lucas Harger

Watch the video interview on Youtube here.

#filmmaking #film #filmmakers on tumblr #cinema #movies #producer #film production #video editor #editing #film community #support indie film #filmmakers life #filmmakers #films #filmblr #making a movie #editing a movie #cinema life #producers on tumblr #independent film #short film #documentary #movie #documentaries

[bitletsanddrabbles]

Why: The Question Fans Love To Ask, But Don't Actually Care About

Imagine the following:

We're on the set of Today's Hot Period Drama. To say the atmosphere is tense is an understatement. This is the last possible day to shoot. After this the film absolutely has to go to the editors or the episode will not be ready to air next week. Yesterday, everything went wrong, so they're behind schedule. Really, really behind schedule. Today, everything has to go right and if it doesn't, oh well. It is what it is, and if that means it's the worst episode in the history of THPD, so be it.

The pressure, as they say, is on.

The director looks over the scene and makes absolutely certain that the furniture is in place, the lighting is suitable, and that the family's beloved dog shows no sign of getting up from his afternoon nap and interrupting the scene. Content that all is as it should be and with one last prayer that the respectable old canine is not hit by a burst of youthful enthusiasm, the director calls for the actors to take their places. From just off the set, there's the sound of footsteps, punctuated by a shuffling noise, a kind of hopping sound, an oath, a crash, and what can only be described as a dignified, masculine shriek of absolute agony.

Spinning around, the director finds the lead actor, Handsome McHottypants sprawled on the floor in a tangle of lighting wires, clutching his foot while his costar, Beauty Splendiferus, stands over him fussing in a horrified manner. At first glance, Handsome's ankle does not look like it should be bending that way. The second and third glance don't help matters. It is pretty obvious to anyone with eyes that the lead man has just broken something and will not be standing for…well, longer than really bares thinking about if you have to get a program out on a weekly schedule. Of course, in future episodes you can make something work. Come up with a canon reason for Lord Moneybags to be limping around with a walking stick or something. But this episode has to be done right now, no options!

What to do, what to do?

Of course in the Golden Age of Hollywood they'd have just chucked a couple of morphine tablets down the actor's throat and called it a day. But this is the 21st Century! You can't just get your lead actor high on illegal substances! You don't have the budget to pay off the police like that! Some over the counter ibuprofen will have to do. It's determined that with that Handsome McHottypants can grit his teeth and get his lines out (although it likely won't be his best performance), but he absolutely Can Not stand.

This isn't good. This is a well researched, accurate period drama! Men do not sit in the presence of a lady! But there's nothing for it. Three people help Handsome McHottypants over to the sofa - resulting in a heart stopping moment when Fido opens his eyes, raises his head, and looks like he might be considering getting up, but instead goes mercifully going back to sleep - and get him seated. The filming starts. Lady Bountyland walks in and, seeing Lord Moneybags seated on the sofa, graciously says "No, no need to get up", and on they go with the shoot. They finish the take and, despite a couple of minor issues, the director declares it a wrap. They have two other scenes to get done, due to yesterday's shit storm, and Handsome's ankle is not going to get better on its own. So, with a congratulations to Beauty for improvising the "No need to get up" line, the director rushes off to get ready for the next scene and everyone packs Handsome off to the hospital.

Then the episode is released.

The audience's reaction is immediate and uncompromising:

"Why is he sitting? No man in that era would sit in the presence of a lady."

"He's always stood before. LOL I guess the director just forgot about manners!"

"I thought this was supposed to be an accurate period drama!"

"This is a sure sign that THPD is going down hill."

The only break in the condemnation of the production team is from the people who think Lord Moneybags is useless scum and take the fact he couldn't be bothered to stand for Lady Bountyland as proof of his worthlessness as a human being.

Much later, when Handsome McHottypants reveals in an interview that the reason Lord Moneybags remained seated (and mysteriously broke his leg in a riding accident between episodes) was because he'd tripped on wires and broken his ankle in real life, the audience pauses in their stone casting to go "Oh no! Poor Mr McHottypants! That sounds so horrible!"

….and then go right back to pitching stones at the production team for their 'error'.

… …

I swear, this is what happens every time film viewers - be it TV or movies - see something that does not immediately make sense to them or seems out of character or anything. I mean, yes, errors are made in filming. Handcuffs that aren't actually latched come apart, but it's so hard to see on film that everyone misses the fact that - well - you can see it on film if you look hard enough. Costumes rip, but the rip is only visible for one frame, so the only people who ever see it are the people who go through everything frame by frame looking for subliminal messaging. The actor trips coming across the stage, but you're already past the wire and can't do another shoot, so you play it off as a charming bumble.

I once read about an incident where it came time to shoot an episode of a TV show and they didn't have a script. Seriously, everything the script writer had tried had failed the sounding board stage. The actors had to straight up improvise the entire episode. As you can imagine, the end result was apparently not great.

The point is, it doesn't matter if these things are accidents or not. Whether Lord Moneybags stays seated because Handsome McHottypants broke his ankle or because the production team wanted to show Lord Moneybags for the uncaring scumbag he is, huge quantities of the audience (except the Lord Moneybags haters) will respond the exact same way:

They will ask "why did that happen?" and rather than trying to come up with any sort of rational explanation, they will pull out their bag of stones and start throwing them, all the while declaring that the production team makes dog shit look like Albert Einstein.

And why? What do people get out of it?

It doesn't actually make them smarter than the production team. Someone breaking their ankle or having a prop bust or tripping isn't a matter of intelligence and attention to detail. And what if something was done on purpose? What if all the people yelling "Lord Moneybags is SCUM!" are right and that's why he doesn't stand up? Then you really aren't smarter than the production team - or the Moneybags antis, for that matter - because you missed the point.

"Why are the Happy Couple living in Cottage B when at the end of last season they were planning on moving into Cottage A? Guess the writers forgot where their characters were moving!" …or maybe something came up and they couldn't rent Cottage A this season.

"Why did they go through all of that effort to set introduce the Sweet Side Couple in the last episode if they weren't going to capitalize on it in the movie? That makes no sense!" …unless they hadn't known the movie was going to happen when they filmed the last episode and then couldn't get one of the actors back for the movie.

"Why did Character 1's bedroom go from that lovely blue-green combo from last season to that horrible purple and cream scheme? She's supposed to have good taste! Did they just forget that?" …more likely the person whose house they were renting as the set redid the wallpaper and the production team didn't have much say in the matter because HEY! Not their house!

There are very few dismissive "why" scenarios I've seen people come up with that I've not been able to immediately come up with at least three, very solid, potential real world reasons for, ranging from 'technical issues' to 'you missed the point'. Even when I can't come up with those, I don't assign the Epic Fail badge to the production team, because normally someone else comes along and gives me a solid real world reason for it. And yet even the people who acknowledge "Well, yeah, that's a pretty solid reason" have this nasty habit of following it up with "but you know that's not what happened."

WHAT? HOW DO I KNOW THAT? I'm not a mind reader! You're not a mind reader! Neither of us are part of the production team! The only way anyone knows what actually happened is if the writer or director or one of the actors or, heck, the key grip says in an interview "Yeah, this is what happened." Until that happens you're just as clueless as I am.

Assuming the worst of every perceived error does not make you superior. Judging the production team for not flawlessly correcting for every hitch does not make them incompetent, it just makes you intolerant. Proclaiming every point that doesn't make immediate sense to you to be a failure on the writer's part may just prove that you're unperceptive. Even if you happen to be right and people just screwed up, as a human being you screw up too.

What you do with that observation is, of course, up to you.

But think about it.

#film industry #film production #fandom #period dramas #and everything else really #but i'm a fan of #downton abbey #the gilded age #etc. so that's who i'm dealing with #philosophy

[shihlun]

The 16mm camera is not only an apparatus but also a spirit. It is cinema returning to its basis, given a freedom that is almost always paralyzed by money and by the weight and lack of flexibility of 35mm cameras and their rails.

Jean Cocteau in "Combat", 1949.

#jean cocteau #16mm film #film histor #1949 #16mm #16mm camera #film production #independent film

[taylorvaughnsaidso]

uhhh....

#gladiator 2 #gladiator #film production #ai #pop culture #sag aftra strike

[thorinsghivashel]

I heard that in the filming of the Hobbit, they used an Ethiopian Opal gem to represent the Arkenstone.

In the film it was introduced as a "bad" stone, but in reality the magical and spiritual properties of the Ethiopian Opal (Arkenstone) seem to be positive, though it would be interesting to mention that in some folklore it is known as the "Unlucky stone".

However it carries vibes of inspiration, self-confidence, optimism, playfulness and desire.

It's believed to increase youthfulness, helps to deal with negative feelings and sad mood. Balances the mind, body and spirit, providing connection and harmony. It is also the stone of love, intensifies emotions and reflects the mood of its wearer. Encourages freedom, independence, and unlocks creativity.

Helps to release anger and claim self-worth, aiding in expressing one's true self.

It's the stone of loyalty, faithfulness and spontaneity. Strengthens the will to live.

The word itself "Opal" seems to have more than one roots, from the Sanskrit word "Upala" meaning "Precious stone" and the Greek derivative "Oppalios" meaning "To see change is color".

And strangely or not it seems to reflect perfect the mental and physical and spiritual state of our dear king Thorin...it did it's work (if speaking of its usefulness in the fantasy world of Tolkien) though not in its best way towards Thorin.

The producers of the trilogy did a great job of choosing this specific stone for the "role" of Arkenstone, smart even, definitely for a reason.

#the hobbit #film production #theories #thorin #the arkenstone #ethiopian opal #gem