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Making a spy thriller for $100k with just 15 shooting days is possible! Joshua Caldwell explains how over at No Film School
“If you passed us by while we were shooting, you probably wouldn’t even know we were making a movie.”
A trope is a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression or a significant or recurrent theme; a motif.
Sci-Fi is a wonderful genre, full of story–telling possibilities as endless as the stars themselves. This is true from both a science and fiction standpoint. Far too often however science fiction films rely on the same tried and true methods to keep the audience entertained. This in not necessarily a bad thing, it makes science fiction more accessible to a wider audience. A few years ago science fiction was not as mainstream as it is today. After the success of Star Wars (1977) that all changed
Matt Loggie at raindance talks about the 7 tropes you should use to get your SciFi script off the ground
Rarely do people actually say what they mean. A woman walks into the living room, says to her husband “I’m upset about what you said last night at dinner.” When does that happen? … Right. Now you’ve got a scene. The image of her pacing during the mundane conversation, biting her nails and playing with her hair will say a lot more than her words: this is about the character.
In this article published over at raindance.org, Baptiste Charles-Aubert talks about the complexities of writing sub text and reviews Writing Subtext, by Dr. Linda Seger is published by Michael Wiese Productions.
In celebration of World Book Day and in an attempt to answer Godard’s purposely irritating question (above), Julia Branche draws a list of diverse links that bind together literature and film.
This article published on raindance.org goes deep into the relationships between cinema and literature and is well worth a read.