Filmmaking Articles and Advice from Film Consultant Peter D. Marshall
Posted in Film History on Dec 22nd, 2009
This article was written by Eoin O’Faolain. “Welcome to the first in a series in which Screenhead takes a look back over the last decade of cinema. It’s been a dramatic decade by any standards, with major worldwide events, from terrorism to economic recession, affecting us all. Even the movies and shows we watched to [...]
Posted in Film History on May 2nd, 2009
Read this article from My Life as a Blog. “In the film world digital advancements are being made faster than filmmakers can keep up with them. In the amount of time it takes to master a new digital camera or technology it has already become obsolete. There is a fetishization of equipment, placing technological prowess [...]
Posted in Film History on Mar 14th, 2009
This article is from The Independent. “‘All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.” This was the formulation that Jean-Luc Godard (borrowing from silent pioneer D W Griffith) came up with at the time of his first feature, Breathless (1960), one of the films that launched the French New Wave. [...]
Posted in Film History on Feb 22nd, 2009
This article is from the New York Times. “There’s an Oscar for pretty much every aspect of filmmaking, except one: the title sequences. Titles, though, have always played a significant part in motion pictures. They may have started out as simple black-and-white cards. But in the days before sound, they already did more than identify [...]
Posted in Film History on Jan 2nd, 2009
This information came from the website ChefSuccess.com The first commercial showing (they charged admission) of a moving picture show took place in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, brothers who invented a device called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere brothers made 2,000 films over a five year career. The Lumiere brothers thought [...]
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