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What is the best way to get strong performances for your film?

By on December 12, 2011 in Actors, Cast

I recently picked up on this interview with Canadian director David Cronenberg, about working with actors. His main point is not so much working with actors, but casting. This chimes in with all of my experience too. In the crucible of production, there is rarely time to spend ‘finding the character’, or workshopping the performance, [...]

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Failing to plan is planning to fail… Film making success lies in pre-production

Failing to plan is planning to fail… Film making success lies in pre-production

By on May 22, 2011 in Budgeting, Cast, Crew, Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass, Inspiration, Locations, Pre-Production

I am spending the weekend building and updating my presentation for The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass on June 4th and 5th. (90% sold out now, so don’t wait if you want to come, and use the discount code CHRISJONESBLOG to get it for £60, reduced from £119.00 – go here http://www.guerillamasterclass.com) And I wanted to [...]

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The Final Word…

The Final Word…

By on January 19, 2008 in Cast, Contributors, Crew, Premiere

Over the last few days I have received over 100 congratulatory emails. Thank you to everyone who wrote, it was touching, and also great for other cast and crew members to hear just how much you appreciated the design, costumes, makeup, image, music, sound… I don’t have space for them all, so here are a [...]

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Compiling Titles

Compiling Titles

By on October 4, 2007 in Cast, Credits, Crew

I have been collating the titles for the end crawler. This presents a number of practical problems. First off is just how do you format it so that you can easily use it in other programs once all typed out in MS Word? The big thing is to NEVER use tabs. Just write the test [...]

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Pickup shoot is planned for next Wednesday

Pickup shoot is planned for next Wednesday

By on September 27, 2007 in Art and Stroryboards, Cast, Offline Edit, Pickups, Shooting

I am starting work on one of my favourite parts of the film making process. The pickup shoot. This is a one day shoot with minimal crew where you get all those little shots you didn’t get during the main shoot, or new shots you thought up in the edit, so as to help tell [...]

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