Filmmaking Articles and Advice from Film Consultant Peter D. Marshall
Posted in Personal Observations on Mar 1st, 2010
This article was written by Jojobean.
“What is the nature of the relationship between the video game and film industries? The media landscape has changed incredibly since the early days of Atari and Nintendo. As video games have increased in number, quality, and audience, the lines dividing games and films has blurred. Today, the video gaming [...]
Posted in Personal Observations on Feb 28th, 2010
This article was written by Manohla Dargis.
“It is time to blow the whole thing up.” In September 1960, when those words were lobbed at the world by a New York-centric, off-Hollywood circle of malcontents called the New American Cinema Group, there was no mistaking their radical urgency.
Given the cold war times — one of the [...]
Posted in Personal Observations on Feb 13th, 2010
This article was written by Andrea Belz.
“Hollywood is undergoing a transformation that could bring the current system of content production to a halt — or, at least, relocate the nexus of activity. That’s because the creative focus now is on developing new business models that take into account the democratization of the entertainment industry — [...]
Posted in Personal Observations on Feb 12th, 2010
This article was written by Kaniel Loughran.
“When the economy takes a dive, Hollywood is always there to pick up the pieces. But with the current trend of recession, can blockbusters continue to turn a profit?
It is considered, at times, that with the steady decline of the U.S. and world economies the ticket sales in the [...]
Posted in Personal Observations on Feb 8th, 2010
This article was written by David Theis.
“Time and technology march on. About 100 years ago, the movies came along to kill the novel, the theater, the opera and almost every other art form besides popular music, which itself killed the symphony.
So now it’s time for the cinema’s dirt nap. The movies are dead—long live the [...]
Posted in Personal Observations on Feb 5th, 2010
This article was written by Ron King.
“When I was a child my dad got a supper eight camera and shot our family movies. The family would sit at night, in the living room, while my dad put up the projector that screened our home movies. The quality of the films was poor and the audio [...]
Posted in Personal Observations on Feb 3rd, 2010
This article was written by Susan Gerard.
A decade as odd as this one, with George Bush and Barack Obama as its bookends, deserves to be examined. While the U.S. moved from rebuilding decimated skyscrapers to the rebuilding of an entire economy, film moved from the multiplex to the mailbox to the cell phone. But did [...]
Posted in Personal Observations on Jan 30th, 2010
This article was written by Vadim Rizov.
“At the Telegraph, critic (and former professor of mine) Sukhdev Sandhu writes about “the sorry decline of American cinema” and comes up with a handful of cultural flashpoints for the future: “The new energy hubs are likely to be found in Mexico; in Romania; in Thailand… in Lagos… in [...]
Posted in Personal Observations on Jan 23rd, 2010
This article was written by Sid Kali.
“For those readers thinking, “Doesn’t talent count for anything when making a movie?” Absolutely, filmmaking talent has a lot to do with how good a movie turns out. If there was an experiment where five filmmakers were given the exact same script, locations, money, cast, and crew to make [...]
Posted in Personal Observations on Jan 15th, 2010
The Ciné Institute, based in Jacmel on Haiti’s southern coast, was completely destroyed in Tuesday’s earthquake. The Ciné Institute provided Haitian youth with film education and edutainment, technical training, and media related micro enterprise opportunities. It is now gone.
BUT…the students (all of whom survived) went back into the rubble of their building and found their [...]
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