This is an 8’29” video essay about the way colour is used to tell the story in Joker. More about JOKER’s look? Click here and you’ll get the Joker’s cinematographer himself, Lawrence Sher, telling you about his career and the…
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Video-Analysis: The First Ten Minutes of SEVEN
During the first key 10-15 minutes of any movie, the audience takes a fundamental decision: they make their minds about going with the film or just disengaging. 10-15 minutes is the amount of time that filmmakers, in general, have to…
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For Screenwriters: Endings
“Endings are a Bitch”: William Goldman Says, so it Must be True. The ending is where, as authors, we wanted to go all the time, although maybe we were not aware of it. Some endings can be surprising, but, if…
Andrew Kevin Walker on SE7EN and 8MM
7 and 8: Two very relevant numbers in screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walkers’ career. In the articles that follow, Walker describes how everything went so right with David Fincher‘s Se7en and so wrong with Joel Schumacher’s 8mm. Two very dark thrillers…