The case for shooting the last scene first
Actors find the ending before they know how they got there. Sometimes that is exactly the performance you want in the can.…
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What a camera package actually costs
A line-by-line breakdown of a three-day shoot, including the four things that always get forgotten in the first quote. Body, glass, support,…
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Writing for a crew, not for a reader
A script is a set of instructions to forty people. Most drafts fail because they were written to be admired instead. The…
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Dailies are a communication tool, not an archive
Graded rough and in the client’s inbox by ten the next morning. That habit has saved more films than any note we…
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Why we still travel with a core team of four
Roughly a third of last year’s work was shot outside California. We take four people and hire the rest locally. A director,…
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The forty minutes we spend waiting for light
There is a version of this job where you fix it in the grade. We have tried it and we do not…
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