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David Lynch Masterclass – Teaching Filmmaking – Creativity and Ideas are Key to Everything

If you are a connoisseur of strange plots, twisted characters and weird, dreamy scenes, you found the right place! Masterclass.com has just published David Lynch’s take on teaching creativity and film. The master of weirdness shares his secrets and you should listen! What pops in mind when movie titles like Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway or Twin Peaks are the topic of conversation? Weird, dark, nightmarish, strange. How can one man’s mind come up with all these ideas, images, even sounds? According to David Lynch it’s all about ideas. And not only about having these ideas but to follow them. Screen grab from “Wild At Heart”. Now you can follow along Mr. Lynch as he is teaching his approach towards filmmaking over on Masterclass.com. We’ve reported about similar offerings by Hans Zimmer (film scoring) or Werner Herzog (filmmaking) for example. David Lynch now enters that circle with his own masterclass. David Lynch Teaches Filmmaking When watching the teaser to David Lynch’s Masterclass, it sounds just too easy. According to him, all you need to do when shooting a feature-length film is to get 70 ideas. And you write these scenes on 3×5 cards. Then when you have 70 of them, you’ve got a feature film. Easy, right? Well I grant you, it takes a little more than that. But what the takeaway of just that one little piece of intel might be is the fact that you should follow your ideas and creativity. Do not stop before even starting, you...

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Published By: CineD - Thursday, 21 March, 2019

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