sell to make and make to sell – the difference?

… is the crucial difference between filmmakers and comic creators. They are both visual storytelling forms and have a lot in common …
but you have to sell a movie first before you can make it, because a viable movie (not something for YOUTUBE or DVDs) cost in excess of a million dollars …
Selling is the [...]

3 stages of artistic growth

The first is the photographic stage.
The second is the “lost” stage, where we ask what am I doing this for? as we thump the floor with hands and feet. In the second stage, we are coming to grips with our medium and what it can do and what we can do.
The third stage , our [...]

the shopping mall

It is nice to visit a shopping mall when you have no money to spend. It’s only when you can’t just buy what you want, then you will realize that it’s not really what you need.
There is a difference.
Shopping malls are the equivalent of a DRUG STORE – only it’s much bigger, more colorful and [...]

never let the characters in on the joke – Coen Bros secret

a hallmark of Coen Brothers’ success as comedic filmmakers – even in deadly serious Oscar winning fares like ‘no country for old men’ is that their characters are really caricatures of unthinking, low level, and worst habits of human behaviour. People who are stubborn, one-track minded and do not change, because they are either uneducated, [...]

wes anderson’s formula – a unique voice

Wes Anderson – the hot American filmmaker who has eluded mainstream success for now – much like the Coen Brothers, Steven Soderbergh and David Fincher – holds such an interesting portfolio of films that it’s a matter of time before he wins an OSCAR too, I predict.
i am a fan of this charismatic filmmaker, [...]