speaking about movies...
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NickMilo
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Re: speaking about movies...
[quote author=ellegrand link=board=movies;num=1107987733;start=0#0 date=02/09/05 at 14:22:13]welll, you know: the position of the lights, the camera, the actors, etc.[/quote]
...If you want to find or positioning of lights- check the lighting section, all sorts of good info there about lighting. And if you dont know how to position your actors in accordance with your camera, look at the movies you like and try thoes tecniques.
Also, "Living in Oblivion" is a real good movie about making a movie. A bit dated, but very good none-the-less. starring Steve Buscemi, 1995.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113677/
EDIT: Most DVD's have special 'Making of' featurettes. Great docs on how they made that movie. Also, commentarys contain a lot of usefull info as well (Listen to the ones containing the Directors, Cinnematogrophers, editors...)
[quote author=ellegrand link=board=movies;num=1107987733;start=0#0 date=02/09/05 at 14:22:13]welll, you know: the position of the lights, the camera, the actors, etc.[/quote]
...If you want to find or positioning of lights- check the lighting section, all sorts of good info there about lighting. And if you dont know how to position your actors in accordance with your camera, look at the movies you like and try thoes tecniques.
Also, "Living in Oblivion" is a real good movie about making a movie. A bit dated, but very good none-the-less. starring Steve Buscemi, 1995.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113677/
EDIT: Most DVD's have special 'Making of' featurettes. Great docs on how they made that movie. Also, commentarys contain a lot of usefull info as well (Listen to the ones containing the Directors, Cinnematogrophers, editors...)
antomic
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Stas_Tagios
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Re: speaking about movies...
There's a lot of great "making ofs" and also fiction films about filmmaking.
Here's some fiction films:
Day For Night
Ed Wood
The Stuntman
RK281
And some "making of" documentaries:
Lost in La Mancha
"The Beginning" - an hour-long "making of" "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" (it's on the 2-disc dvd). TPM is awful, but the documentary about its making is great.
The "Panic Room" and "Alien Quadrilogy" DVDs have some fairly extensive "making of" material.
A great movie about both a filmmaker's passion, and an example of how not to make movies:
American Movie
A terrific movie about cinematography:
Visions of Light
There's also a great doc about editing that's been airing on pay cable (one of the movie channels) lately, but I can't recall the name of it.
There's a lot of great "making ofs" and also fiction films about filmmaking.
Here's some fiction films:
Day For Night
Ed Wood
The Stuntman
RK281
And some "making of" documentaries:
Lost in La Mancha
"The Beginning" - an hour-long "making of" "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" (it's on the 2-disc dvd). TPM is awful, but the documentary about its making is great.
The "Panic Room" and "Alien Quadrilogy" DVDs have some fairly extensive "making of" material.
A great movie about both a filmmaker's passion, and an example of how not to make movies:
American Movie
A terrific movie about cinematography:
Visions of Light
There's also a great doc about editing that's been airing on pay cable (one of the movie channels) lately, but I can't recall the name of it.
Re: speaking about movies...
Hard to believe no one has mentioned the “Lord of the Rings” Special Edition DVDs.
Hard to believe no one has mentioned the “Lord of the Rings” Special Edition DVDs.
Re: speaking about movies...
La Nuit Américaine, by François Truffaut (a fictional making of with Truffaut playing his own role — Truffautissimo !)
The Party, by Blake Edwards (for the opening sequence, not very instructional on how to shoot a movie, but so funny)
Mulholland Drive, by David Lynch (in a dark backroom mood)
Adaptation, by Spike Jonz (Kaufman's abyssal vision of himself via Nicholas Cage in another double role — disturbing and brilliant)
La Petite Lili, by Claude Miller (in the ending sequence, Miller has perfectly rendered the quiet/busy/intense atmosphere on the set)
The Blair Witch Project, by Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez (if you like to feel like a wet **** — my favourite docudrama)
C'est Arrivé Près De Chez Vous, by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde (a fictional reportage about a serial killer — punk !)
Ma Femme Est Une Actrice, by Ivan Attal (not a great film, but starring our delightful Charlotte Gainsbourg)
The Truman Show, by Peter Weir (Ed Harris is Stanley Kubrick's ultimate incarnation)
White Hunter, Black Heart, by Clint Eastwood (a fictional reconstitution of John Huston's The African Queen — not many making-of-like sequences, but a Clint's film is always worth being watched)
Barton Fink, by Joel & Ethan Coen (a satanist vision of Hollywood in the forties, on the writer's side — starring John Turturro and John Goodman)
In the making of section, I love the genesis of Alien that I found in the first edition of the complete Alien box. Seventy minutes of delight.
The making of The Shining was shot by Kubrick's daughter, and opens with an incredible sequence starring Jack Nicholson performing a nicholsonian solo in one shot.
And of course, Hearts Of Darkness, by Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper & Eleanor Coppola (the title says it all, except that this is the making of Apocalypse Now! — just like the film : fascinating)
Two of the greatest films in films have already been mentioned here, but I can't resist the pleasure of naming them again :
Living In Oblivion, by Tom Dicillo (with my own personal femme idéale : Katherine Keener)
Lost In La Mancha, by Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe (or "How God Screwed It All And Ruined My Dream" — a fatalistic masterpiece)
La Nuit Américaine, by François Truffaut (a fictional making of with Truffaut playing his own role — Truffautissimo !)
The Party, by Blake Edwards (for the opening sequence, not very instructional on how to shoot a movie, but so funny)
Mulholland Drive, by David Lynch (in a dark backroom mood)
Adaptation, by Spike Jonz (Kaufman's abyssal vision of himself via Nicholas Cage in another double role — disturbing and brilliant)
La Petite Lili, by Claude Miller (in the ending sequence, Miller has perfectly rendered the quiet/busy/intense atmosphere on the set)
The Blair Witch Project, by Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez (if you like to feel like a wet **** — my favourite docudrama)
C'est Arrivé Près De Chez Vous, by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde (a fictional reportage about a serial killer — punk !)
Ma Femme Est Une Actrice, by Ivan Attal (not a great film, but starring our delightful Charlotte Gainsbourg)
The Truman Show, by Peter Weir (Ed Harris is Stanley Kubrick's ultimate incarnation)
White Hunter, Black Heart, by Clint Eastwood (a fictional reconstitution of John Huston's The African Queen — not many making-of-like sequences, but a Clint's film is always worth being watched)
Barton Fink, by Joel & Ethan Coen (a satanist vision of Hollywood in the forties, on the writer's side — starring John Turturro and John Goodman)
In the making of section, I love the genesis of Alien that I found in the first edition of the complete Alien box. Seventy minutes of delight.
The making of The Shining was shot by Kubrick's daughter, and opens with an incredible sequence starring Jack Nicholson performing a nicholsonian solo in one shot.
And of course, Hearts Of Darkness, by Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper & Eleanor Coppola (the title says it all, except that this is the making of Apocalypse Now! — just like the film : fascinating)
Two of the greatest films in films have already been mentioned here, but I can't resist the pleasure of naming them again :
Living In Oblivion, by Tom Dicillo (with my own personal femme idéale : Katherine Keener)
Lost In La Mancha, by Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe (or "How God Screwed It All And Ruined My Dream" — a fatalistic masterpiece)
HorseFilms
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One of the best commentary tracks I've ever heard in terms of lighting has to be In the Mouth of Madness. The whole thing is John Carpenter grilling DP Gary Kibbe on what he did to light each scene. There's some great stuff there.
One of the best commentary tracks I've ever heard in terms of lighting has to be In the Mouth of Madness. The whole thing is John Carpenter grilling DP Gary Kibbe on what he did to light each scene. There's some great stuff there.
wabbit
Evil has Ears
Re: speaking about movies...
[quote author=Stas_Tagios link=board=movies;num=1107987733;start=0#10 date=02/10/05 at 00:14:17]There's also a great doc about editing that's been airing on pay cable (one of the movie channels) lately, but I can't recall the name of it.[/quote]
Is it Project Greenlight? Keep hearing great things about the series (movies are a total mess).
[quote author=Stas_Tagios link=board=movies;num=1107987733;start=0#10 date=02/10/05 at 00:14:17]There's also a great doc about editing that's been airing on pay cable (one of the movie channels) lately, but I can't recall the name of it.[/quote]
Is it Project Greenlight? Keep hearing great things about the series (movies are a total mess).
Stas_Tagios
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Re: speaking about movies...
No, but the first two seasons of Project Greenlight were immensely entertaining.
The editing doc was on again last night. It's called "The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing."
Here's the imdb link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428441/
No, but the first two seasons of Project Greenlight were immensely entertaining.
The editing doc was on again last night. It's called "The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing."
Here's the imdb link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428441/