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What are the biggest dos and don’ts when emailing CVs and cover letters? Keep CVs short and specific to the job you’re applying for. If you haven’t gripped them in the first half page they may not read the rest. Follow up, build a network and always be professional no matter how frustrated you may … Read more
• Gather as much information as you can When you’re trying to imagine what the future will look like find all the information you can from sources such as books, magazines, films and documentaries. • Make your content different There’s no shortage of material about the future. It’s better to make your content different from … Read more
Animate acting shots one phrase at a time It’s best to have clear full-body posing in your phrases at the expense of smooth transitions, especially early on. Animation follows beats and phrases, each with its own purpose. For a scene in which a store clerk is helping a customer, one phrase might be him waving … Read more
10 ways Directors must think like a line producer A no-to-low budget director is a person of many hats and throughout the production, at different times and at the same time be a writer, executive producer, director, line producer and even the editor. This is just a mirror image of how a no-to-low budget forces … Read more
All filmmakers will have experienced that horrific shoot where the SD card fills up or the battery dies at the wrong moment during filming, and you hope it never happens again. But there’s one important factor which you may not have thought of, and it’s as vital as spare SD cards and batteries. We’re on … Read more
It seems a little unfair to criticise Marvel Studios, given the Disney-owned production unit’s spectacular success over the past decade. And yet in among the remarkable $1bn-plus box-office returns and critical fervour for movies such as Iron Man 3 and The Avengers, there has been the odd rumbling of discontent from those who have worked … Read more
In the early 1990s, when screenwriter Richard Curtis and producer Duncan Kenworthy were brought together by Working Title to make a film – a mid-budget comedy to be directed by Mike Newell, something about weddings, strong on morning suits, one-liners, obscenity – Curtis made a suggestion. He told Kenworthy: keep bits. Put aside what mementos … Read more
The debate about critics and film-making missing a point: Hollywood needs policing on its weaknesses, not its strengths The first debate in 2014 about the future of film criticism is under way, this time touching down on both sides of the Atlantic, so that must make it official. First out of the gate were the … Read more
Taking individual filesharers to court is now a discredited anti-piracy strategy for even the most hawkish music, film and software industry rightsholders. Their preferred approach in 2014 is to follow the money instead. That means focusing their efforts on piracy sites, through three main tactics: pressuring search engines to remove links to infringing files and … Read more
After the success of True Detective, award-winning film-makers are being lured to TV with the promise of more creative control, Does this herald a new golden age for viewers? There was a time when American movie stars and big-ticket directors wouldn’t touch TV. Now, thanks to hit series such as True Detective, not only movie … Read more
Jordan Belfort, who was jailed for 22 months for securities fraud, admits that the Oscar-nominated film based on his memoir had no need to exaggerate the sex and drugs The controversial figure whose memoir formed the basis of Leonardo DiCaprio’s unhinged stockbroker in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street has revealed … Read more
Film company Pinewood is to set up a new studio in Cardiff. The deal was announced today by Wales’s First Minister Carwyn Jones and Pinewood Shepperton chief executive Ivan Dunleavy. A new 180,000 sq ft complex will be established at the former Energy Centre building in Wentloog, Cardiff, and will form part of Pinewood’s global … Read more
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