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 Restricted vs. Unrestricted Narration in Film?

Storytelling represents a key element for any film. Specifically, the way the story is delivered, or the narrative, and how the narration impacts what the audience knows can have a pivotal role in how the story develops and how the audience feels about the entire situation. Films use restricted and unrestricted narration depending on the […]

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! […]

Examining Denotation and Connotation Difference in Film Media

Films generally have two guiding principles in which the meanings of words or objects are delivered connotatively or denotatively. Whether a film quote or object is described connotatively or denotatively plays a role in the connections that people make to the story and whether it has literal or nonliteral meaning. In examining denotation and connotation […]

What is the Package Unit System in Film?

Throughout the history of filmmaking there have been a variety of different elements which have evolved to make the industry more efficient and effective. Think of the studio system as an early form of mass production of films. Which was actively engaged prior to 1950. But eventually the Package Unit System would be employed to […]

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 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 […]

What is a Continuity Person & What Role Do they Have on Set?

We have been answering the question “What is a continuity person” for over a decade now. A continuity person is often referred to as a script supervisor. Once more frequently referred to as “Script Gals,” the continuity person is responsible for maintaining the continuity of the film during each scene, take, and throughout the entire […]