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Features
A Guide to Free Resources
for Writers and Scriptwriters
This guide aims to collate
some of the more useful sites and software available to writers and
screenwriters on the internet...
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Raindance's Nine Routes
to becoming a Film Director
There are nine routes to
consider when launching your career as a director. Before you decide which route
to take, research the careers of directors you admire and see if you can see
which route they followed remember that there is no such thing as a route - only
a route that is good for you: one that allows you to maximise you abilities and
talent...
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The Producer's Ten Commandments
for a Successful Shoot
1. Set Your Sights High
2. Plan Well 3. Slow But Steady...
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A Guide to Free Resources
for Film Makers
This guide aims to collate
some of the more useful sites and software available to filmmakers on the internet...
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The Art of the Short Film
Short film length is as varied as the number of short films around. It will be less than feature
length, certainly. A short could be as long as 30 or 40 minutes. Ten minutes, or less, is common
and some film festivals have ten minutes or less as a condition of entry for shorts. The tv market
seems to prefer the ten minute slot for shorts, and ten minutes or less seems to be favoured in UK
cinemas showing shorts, but there are exceptions...
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Scouting Locations
There’s no great mystery to scouting good locations for a
film. There’s no template that tells you exactly how to do it, either. Many of
the requirements for a location will be in the script. Finding them is down to
marshalling your resources. If you know the area where you are looking, you are
well on your way, If you don’t, a good starting point is people who do know it
well...
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Locating Devil's Gate
There are plenty of good
reasons for a movie to want to locate in the Shetland Islands, particularly the
light, which must rank as the clearest in Britain. Every camera operator who has
landed here has been surprised by how much stop-down is needed. Yet they are
still in the United Kingdom, not some tropic isle with overhead sun and
cloudless skies...
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Michael Powell's The Edge of
the World - Shetland's First Feature Film
"The Edge of the World"
was directed by acclaimed British director Michael Powell. He died in 1990, and
is best known for films he made with the screenwriter, producer and director
Emeric Pressburger, among them The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, A
Matter of Life and Death. After
frustrating years filling his "quickie quota" as a contract director
for Warner Brothers, Powell got the chance to make "The Edge of the
World," financed by an American producer named Joe Rock...
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