A film lives or dies by its beginning. If you haven’t hooked the audience within the first twenty minutes it is an uphill battle from then on. The first twenty minutes of a film are crucial to its success artistically and, no doubt, financially. A brilliant beginning can make a good film great or a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Film Editing'
Brilliant Beginnings
December 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Cinematography, Film Directing, Film Editing, Film Narrative, Screenwriting
Tags: aliens·apocalypse now·babel·beginnings·dawn of the dead·set up
More thoughts about Montage.
December 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Cinematography, Film Criticism and Analysis, Film Editing, Film Narrative
I know I’ve already done a post about Continuity and Montage editing some time ago but I’ve had some more thoughts recently that help explain and develop the idea of Montage. As you will know from my previous post, the idea of montage is to put seemingly unrelated pictures or scenes together that leaves the [...]
Tags: adverts·commericals·continuity·editing·film trailers·montage
Malick’s New World
September 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Cinematography, Film Authorship, Film Criticism and Analysis, Film Directing, Film Editing
It is always interesting to watch the films of a director who marches to the beat of a different drum. Terrence Malick is one of those directors whose films captivate and sometimes infuriate the film critics. His latest film – The New World – seems to have divided critics and been less than enthusiastically received [...]
Tags: beauty·Colin Farrell·natural world·pilgrim fathers·Terrence Malick·The New World
The Band’s Last Waltz
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Cinematography, Film Editing, Film General, Film History, Film Sound
I’m on a roll now. The Song Remains The Same just started me thinking again about pop music films again. It’s funny how one thing leads to another. I’d almost forgotten about probably the greatest film about popular music and culture. And it was made by a bone fide film maker with a host of [...]
Learning about Cinema
January 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Cinematography, Film Authorship, Film Criticism and Analysis, Film Directing, Film Editing, Film General, Film History, Film Narrative, Genre
1999 was one of my favourite years. I studied film and the cinema for a year at John Leggott sixth form college in Scunthorpe and ended up with an “A” Level in Film Studies. For years I had avidly watched movies at the cinema and on the television and more recently on video. I had even [...]
Tags: citizen kane·eisenstein·film grammar·Film History·film studies·propp·seven samurai
Film Making – The Future
March 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Cinematography, Film Directing, Film Editing, Film Producing, Film Special Effects
It must be a great time to be a young energetic and imaginative film-maker at the moment. “The world is your lobster!” as Derek Trotter might have said. Why do I say that? Because it seems to me that they have more options now than their predecessors ever had.
It was not so long ago that fresh-faced [...]
Tags: chromakey technology·digital video recording·dloby digital·pc·video streaming·viral marketing·youtube
West vs East – Continuity vs Montage Editing
February 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · Film Editing, Film History
Isn’t it wonderful how the mind works? No matter what pictures are put in front of our eyes our mind tries to make sense of it. It took a Russian called Kuleshev near the turn of the 20th century to bring it to the world’s attention and had a profound effect on film art and [...]