Preparation, scripts and legal

Building the Hero character

Faudel — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 01:52:03 +0000

Lets leave Big Cs making money and lets back to reality and to what we should really work on !

Before heroes come to the big screen in huge black rooms ,they were in stories as ancient as mankind. Depends on our country or culture of origin we learned about different Myths and religions. When you study these different myths and also the different religions of the world you find similarities. In a way most of heroes make the same journey.

Joseph Campbell,an american philosopher, has studied all this and bring us a nice theory : The monomyth. His work and books and derivative books are IMHO a must read for understanding the hero and the hero's journey ! This might be useful for those who are planning an epic movie and for Star Wars fans too :p Ofc this is not the only way to build a hero character and ofc Joseph Campbell work is not limited to the hero ,it's about mankind and unity...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell

An example of this thoughts

his main book(ofc i recommend others too) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces

http://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Faces-Collected-Joseph-Campbell/dp/1577315936

A book from tv docs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Myth

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Myth-Joseph-Campbell/dp/0385418868

A derivative book from his work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Writer%27s_Journey:_Mythic_Structure_For_Writers

http://www.amazon.com/The-Writers-Journey-Structure-Edition/dp/193290736X

The hero's journey

Tips for shooting in Russia?

tjnavyblue — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:06:50 +0000

Heading to Russia (Moscow) in a couple of weeks from the U.S. Most of my shooting will be in the client's corporate buildings, but looking to get some city/culture b-roll as well.

Is there anything special to keep in mind, either with customs going in/out of the country or in shooting on the street in Moscow?

I've traveled with gear before - wondering about tips specific to Russia. Would love to hear your thoughts or experience.

My first proper gig! – How much to CHARGE?

kujina — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:22:45 +0000

I’ve potentially secured some corporate work but I’m not sure how much to charge! (I'm in the UK)

Please check out the following video links as examples (not my work) of the kind thing I would be asked to produce.

I’d appreciate any feedback and thoughts on how to charge for this type of work.

P.s I will be using the GH2!

…Thanks…

Guilds & Association

peternap — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:37:02 +0000

Is there any advantage to joining a Guild or Association for independent Documentary and News people? If so, which one? I've been looking at Film Independent.

Storyboarding

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sat, 26 May 2012 03:36:18 +0000

Apps

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storyboard-composer/id325697961

Sound&Picture magazine

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:29:23 +0000

Sound & Picture is the leading content driven magazine for audio and video professionals.
Previously they made magazine called The Coffey Audio Files.

Best thing that you can look at full past issues online or download in PDF, all for free.

http://soundandpictureonline.com/issues/

Books: Gear is Good, Vision is Better.

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:34:14 +0000

In fact, this free book by Scott Bourne is called Vision.
But title represents its main tagline.

Book about importance of vision and creativity in photography.

Download it here - http://static.animoto.com/files/vision.pdf

Contracts and all this stuff

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:17:44 +0000

This is special topic to talk about making proper contracts.
Delivering this contracts to clients and not looking like predator or frightened bunny.

What I am interested is how you use contracts, do you make your own ones or use some typical found in Internet or provided by lawyer?