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Film 101: Producer vs. Director
(If you missed our introduction to the Film 101 series, catch up here.) School's in! But since it's only mid-August, I guess that makes our first Film 101 lesson technically a part of Summer School,...
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Film 101: Zoom, Dolly, and Zolly!
Most good filmmakers don't just wildly swing the camera around to show off (though even the best may have gone through a bit of a show-off phase at some point–yeah, I'm looking at you, Coen Brothers...
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Film 101: Location Scouting
When we asked redblog readers what they'd like us to cover in future Film 101 installments, "Nick" let us know that he was curious about the location scouting process, and specifically how certain...
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Film 101: Hark! From Whence Comes That Sound?(And Who is Wilhelm and Why is...
You know how it goes: you’re at your Oscar party, filling in your picks for your pool, and you come to… Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. Eep! Eeny, meeny, miny, moe time! So let’s do a quick rundown of...
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Film 101: Stages of Filmmaking
In past Film 101 installments, we've talked about things that happen during pre-production (location scouting) as well as post-production (sound editing). However, we never actually explained what...
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Film 101: Practical Magic
This weekend, teen-horror-film fans will be treated to more than just Jennifer’s Body–they’ll also get Jennifer’s projectile vomiting of icky black bile. After all, she is possessed by a demon. Large...
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Do You Agree with Yahoo!’s “Modern Classics” List?
I am one of those people who loves lists. I am always making lists (if only you could see the volume of sticky notes displaying To Do reminders scattered around my condo…), I live for checking things...
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Film 101: The Origins of Movie Trailers
We always have fun discussing movie trailers here on redblog, but we’ve never actually covered how trailers came to be in the first place. So I looked into the history of these typically...
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Film 101: More on Trailers
Last month we covered the origins of movie trailers in the 1910s and some highlights of their evolution up until the ’60s. Let’s continue from that point, shall we? Before there were dedicated trailer...
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Film 101: Movie Soundtracks
After seeing (and, like Locke, enjoying) this weekend’s Footloose remake, I got to thinking about the power of movie soundtracks. You old-timers might remember that the Footloose album took the #8 spot...
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