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Hello creatives! Let’s dive into the wonderful world of filmmaking with the basics of cinematography. For those of you have been following my creative journey, you’ll know that I’m an indie author who has recently joined the NYC Women Filmmakers Network to dabble in scriptwriting and hopefully

I am the one who frames.

A trio of Parisian, Jewish and African teenage drifters in a dead-end banlieu outside Paris, portray the everyday afflictions that the immigrant population deal with. Their awareness of their own marginalisation reaches a climactic boiling point.

[Joe Wright • 2007]

Of all the Wong Kar Wai films, this is my favorite: Fallen Angels (1995). This film is a further exploration of the unique, lush, inscr...

Henri Prestes' film photography shows some fine examples of capturing an alternate to the snowy scenes typically tied to the winter season.

I thought I would share the first part of the chapter on crewing from The Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint. It’s a template for a low budget feature film crew and exactly who you will need at…

Five shot sequence is a popular filming technique that uses five different shots to depict an activity. In my open online course Audio Slideshow Storytelling, students need to study a tutorial and …

Somewhere in Nagoya.

Based on Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov’s work, the Kuleshov effect demonstrates how the alterations of contextual framing can affect a viewer’s perception of visual expression. The term applies to both a filmmaker’s extensive control of how a film is experienced and the complicated factors that influence human perception. Kuleshov first demonstrated this mental/film phenomenon in the 1910s and 1920s. It was Kuleshov’s short film of Ivan Mosjoukine—a montage of expressional closeups of Mosjoukine

Is it possible to feel colors?

Moe no suzaku (Naomi Kawase, 1997)

We caught up with director Gaspar Noé in Cannes to talk about his killer new film, Climax.