DIRK’S FILM SCHOOL: PRE-SOLD SOURCES
Cinema has always had a dependence on other media for its content. This is driven by it’s need to find a ready made audience, as much as for creative purposes. […]
Cinema has always had a dependence on other media for its content. This is driven by it’s need to find a ready made audience, as much as for creative purposes. […]
SEMINAR NOTES Good morning, Mr Edison, glad to see you back. Hope you like the KINETOPHONE. To show you the synchronisation, I will lift my hand to count to ten. […]
When I took to Twitter for suggestions of the greatest Tracking Shots for Dirk’s Film School STUDENT NOTEBOOK, I was struck that when it comes to a good tracking shot […]
SEMINAR NOTES Tracking shots typically involve moving the camera on a platform running on tracks, towards a subject or away from it or from side-to-side. R.W. Paul devised panning and […]
PROF DOM-DIRK RECOMMENDS One hundred years ago this year the feature film came in to it’s own when the Italian’s got there first with the epic “Cabiria”, a year later […]
SEMINAR NOTES The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of a human bladder – Alfred Hitchcock It was the development of the ‘Latham Loop’ that […]