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Finished 125 page Draft #1- Lessons Learned

Sunday, March 1, 2009

I’m at a unique point in the screenwriting process that separates men (and women) from the boys (and girls). This weekend I finished my first draft of my as yet unnamed screenplay. It clocks in at 125 pages. Now I have to go into my first of many refinements and revisions. I must prepare myself [...]

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New York Life: Seven Months Later

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Quick Life update post. As usual, feel free to gloss over this entry. So here I am. I’ve been living and working in New York for seven months. It feels much longer. I think that is largely because so much has happened. In July 2008, I began working for a small web production company. Lots [...]

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Alien Trespass, The X-Files and R.W. Goodwin

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Last night I attended a screening and Q&A at the New York Film Academy for R.W. Goodwin’s upcoming alien comedy Alien Trespass. It was a full house of NYFA students and others and the evening proved rich in film-making discussion. The evening began with a screening of a featurette followed by the full feature cut [...]

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Hark! The Importance and Impact of the “Reveal Shot” in Cinema and Television

Sunday, September 21, 2008

One of my favorite and oft under-appreciated visual shots in movies and television is the “Reveal Shot”. Traditionally, the reveal shot consists of pulling back from a tightly framed shot to reveal a larger framing, exposing a greater context with often epiphanous implications to the audience – and in some cases – the on-screen characters. [...]

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