7 Tips To Keep Your Job From Modern Family Writer Danny Zuker

Few weeks ago, Modern Family co-executive producer, two times Emmy and Golden Globe winner Danny Zuker gave a speech at the Newhouse School's convocation ceremony. With humor Zuker talks about his experience as a writer, his unlikely debut, his not-so-long-ago year without a job, and gives ...

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By mentorless| No Comment | Filmmakers Tools, Writing and Writers
Sounds of Aronofsky: a Video to Listen Closer

Darren Aronofsky is a director I discovered when Requiem for a Dream came out, I was 17 and had no clue what I was in for when I bought my ticket. I'm pretty sure my mouth stayed open during the whole movie. My expectations from movies and perceptions of them were never the same after that, an ...

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By mentorless| No Comment | Cinematography and Cinematographers, Directing and Directors, Editing and Editors, Filmmakers Tools, Personal Buzz
[Meta-Me] A Year In Creativity #5: How Was April 2012?

It feels a bit ridiculous to write about April 2012 mid-May, and the next meta-me will come out in 15 days, no matter what. Time to get a grip! Unlike March that was an incredibly packed month and allowed me to share results with you, April was a bit of a blur, a) because the first fi ...

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By mentorless| No Comment | A Year in Creativity
Must Watch ‘The Eagleman Stag’, Animation of the Week

It's been a while since the last animated short narrated shared on mentorless, but it definitely worths the wait. The Eagleman Stag is an eight minute no-CGI-all-stop-motion animation short writen and directed by Mikey Please, which was the 2011 BAFTA animated short film winner. As you can ...

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By mentorless| No Comment | Animation, Directing and Directors, Editing and Editors, Personal Buzz
The Art of Framing: the ‘Broken Embraces’ Example

Here we are for a second The Art of Framing! The good news is today is about Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces, a movie that plays with many formats, colors, textures to narrate a multi-layered story. Rodrigo Prieto (Cinematographer), Antxón Gómez (Production Designer) , Victor Molero (A ...

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By mentorless| No Comment | Cinematography and Cinematographers, Directing and Directors, Films and TV Show, Personal Buzz, The Art of Framing
Production Designer K.K. Barrett Talks About His Career and Working on Being John Malkovich, Marie-Antoinette, and Where The Wild Things Are

Continuing with my quest in finding more about other departments at work in the filmmaking process, listening to professionals (see here, here, here and here for some examples) I am glad to share with you an 18 minute video of self-taught production designer K.K. Barrett. Barrett goes back to ...

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By mentorless| No Comment | Filmmakers Tools, Films and TV Show, Interviews, Personal Buzz, Production Design
Want to Write An Epic Tale? Check Tom Gauld’s Awesome List of Characters

Scottish cartoonist and illustrator Tom Gauld realized this beautiful limited edition titled 'Characters for an Epic Tale' in 2009 that is now sold-out but remains timeless and I find, a great source of inspiration to let loose of the list of set characters we always come across in screenwri ...

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Alfonso Cuaron and the Art of Long Takes: the ‘Children of Men’ Example

Alfonso Cuaron is a director with a unique visual style that I have been following since Great Expectations and who gained global fame when he practically 'rebooted' the Harry Potter series (esthetically speaking) and when his dystopian sci-fi Children of Men came out, rejuvenating t ...

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By mentorless| 2 Comments | Cinematography and Cinematographers, Directing and Directors, Films and TV Show, Making Of, The Art of Framing
Thelma Schoonmaker Talks About The Art of Editing and Working With Martin Scorsese

Thelma Schoonmaker is a three-time Oscar winner for best-editing and one of Martin Scorsese's life-time collaborator. They met at NYC where Schoonmaker was taking a six weeks class about cinema and Scorsese needed some help to save a movie that had been savaged by a first editor. Last week I w ...

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By mentorless| 1 Comment | Directing and Directors, Editing and Editors, Filmmakers Tools, Interviews, Personal Buzz
[MOTSM] Spidey Gets a Massive Recap, Brought to You by @0bFuSc8

If you  follow the light ARG page on mentorless you probably remember Anton's detailed Prometheus recap and how it felt like no recap could be longer... Ha. Meet @0bFuSc8's recap about what has been recently going on with #markofthespiderman's campaign. It is extremely detailed, and ...

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By mentorless| 3 Comments | Personal Buzz, Social Media, Transmedia