What is a Production Sound Mixer
The production sound mixer is responsible for ensuring that all recorded dialogue is properly heard and clear during the filming production. This is a challenging role that requires advanced listening skills. Production sound mixers work in challenging environments where unwanted noises are likely to intrude with the otherwise properly displayed emotions of the script. Mixers […]
What’s the Difference Between a Film Treatment and a Synopsis?
So you’ve written an entire script? That’s an amazing accomplishment, and as a beginner, I bet you thought that was all you had to do in order to have your work considered for production on broadcast television, cable, or one of various streaming app like Hulu or Netflix. If that’s the case, you definitely thought wrong! […]
Classic Crossover Film: Understanding Crossover Cinema for Beginners
Crossover film represents a complex form of storytelling in which multiple styles of fictional characters, settings or worlds are mashed up to create the context of a single story. Representing an emerging form of cinematic experience in which cultural borders are crossed during the conceptualization and production. What does crossover film mean for audiences that enjoy this […]
What is a Camera Operator
What is a Camera Operator? This blog should answer this question in detail. Acting as direct support to the Director of Photography and the Director, Camera Operators play a vital role on the film set and must carry out the directions of the director to portray the creative vision through shot composition and development. Camera […]
What is Thaumatrope Animation?
The thaumatrope, a two-sided disc with images on each side that is attached to two strings. Which are then quickly twirled to produce the illusion of both pictures becoming one, became a popular toy in the 19th century. The same scientific methods that are used to form the thaumatrope are used by artists to produce thaumatrope […]
What is a Post Production Supervisor, and what is their Role on the Film Set?
The Post Production Supervisor takes on the responsibility of various post production processes necessary to maintain clarity of information and open communication between the producer, editor, supervising sound editor, and facilities companies such as the film labs, studios, and negative cutters. Post production supervisors also work closely with the production accountant. This position is not […]
Common Types of Allusions in Films
Allusions represent a popular literary device that is used by authors and screenwriters to achieve character development. To create strong associations to well-known works and past concepts. And to devise stronger storylines. Many different types of literary allusions in films exist to develop these connections to past works. From phrases that can be connected to […]
How to Do a Film Sequence Analysis
Film sequence analysis involves breaking down a scene or sequence of scenes to analyze elements of cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing and sound in order to formulate a deeper understanding of the Director’s vision for the story and the connection that each shot, scene, or sequence has to the overall message. Learning how to do a film […]
Is Verisimilitude in Film the Same As Realism?
When an audience enjoys a film they typically make connections with the elements of the plot and individual actions taking place within the story. They will follow along with the facts that are delivered as the story progresses and they will find the story most meaningful if there is verisimilitude, or in other words, if […]
How is Binary Opposition in Film Used?
They say opposites attract, and in many cases, particular when we’re talking about Binary opposition theory, it’s true. Binary oppositions, or the binary opposition theory, is a critical theory that was coined by ethnologist and anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.  According to binary oppositions in film, a system of mutually exclusive terms which are used to offset one another […]