Posts from Coffee and Celluloid organized into the stages of filmmaking.
Pre-Production
- 5 Ways to Become a Future Hollywood Power Player
- Screenwriting – Biblio Film School
- Pitching Story Ideas
- Keep the Pitches Off the Elevator
- Keeping the Outline in Scope
- Revision in Technicolor
- Producing Tools
- Scouting for a Corner Office
- Casting
- Director’s Prep
- Tech Scout
- Getting the Greenlight
- Producing a Location
- Who Produces What?
- I Redeem Myself as Producer
- Make a UPM Kit
- Camera Tests
- Forgetting the Audience (and Sarah Marshall)
- Inside Director’s Prep
- The Last Location Scout
- Location, Location, Location
- Here Piggy, Piggy, Piggy
- Crew Call – The Cast Behind the Camera
- The Complete Ira Glass on Creative Work
Production
- Directing
- Producing
- Cinematography
- Production Design
- Crew
- Burn Notice – On-Set and Production Assisting
- How to Make a Movie – Start to Finish
- Presentations and Filmmaking
- From Presentation Zen to Filmmaking Zen
- Drawing The Line
- A Truck Full of Equipment
- Lights, Camera, Action…and Marker, Slate, Sound…
- Time for Some Union Rules
- Craft Services – The Morale Booster
- No Communication is a Bad Thing
- Acting for the Camera
- A First Assistant Directing Moment
- It’s Dailies, Not Weeklies
- How to Turn 10 Extras into 100
- Friday Night Dailies
- In Production: Day 1 – Off to a Good Start
- I Was Kung Powed
- Going for a Take
Post-Production
- How to Make Professional Looking DVDs
- Editing
- Sound Design
Exhibition
- State of the Fest – Do festivals matter?
- A Good Film Festival is When You Don’t See Movies
- The Future: “Welcome To The New World of Distribution”
- Did the Digital Revolution Screw Over Cinema?
- Inside a Movie Marketer’s Playbook
Documentary
- Pre-Production
- Production
- Post-Production
- Exhibition