Inception, Part Three: Nolan's Women
Posted by sean in Featured, Filmmaking, Writing on July 21, 2010
This is Part Three of three posts about Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Yesterday’s post was about seeing the movie fresh and Monday’s post was my review of the film. There may be spoilers in this article, more so than in the previous two, if you haven’t seen Inception, you may consider postponing reading this post until [...]
Inception, Part Two: Seeing it Fresh
Posted by sean in Featured, Filmmaking on July 20, 2010
For my overall thoughts on Inception, please see my review. Also, if you have yet to see Inception there may be spoilers in the post, I don’t intend for there to be but there may be. For Inception I tried a little experiment. I knew from what little I’d initially heard that I wanted to [...]
Inception, Part One: Review
Posted by sean in Featured, Filmmaking on July 19, 2010
A NOTE: I intend for this to be a mostly spoiler free review, however, I can’t guarantee I’m not giving something away. If you don’t want anything spoiled and you haven’t seen Inception and intend to, you probably should avoid reading this. Friday night I saw Christopher Nolan’s new film, Inception, with the nice folks at [...]
Catastrophe a 2010 StoryPros Awards Finalist
I am pleased to share that my feature screenplay Catastrophe made it to the Finalist round of the 3rd Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest. Catastrophe‘s logline is: “In a world of superheroes and supervillains an unsuccessful disaster insurance salesman becomes a supervillain to save his job.” I started writing Catastrophe just over a year ago [...]
A Story of Their Own: Women and Film
Posted by sean in Filmmaking, Writing on June 1, 2010
Last week we lost both Dennis Hopper and Gary Coleman two icons of cinema and television. There’s been plenty said and I don’t have anything to add really. The news about their deaths reminded me of a few other celebrity deaths recently and I remembered a post I’d read on Feministing early last week. The [...]
Answering All the Questions: Writing and the "Lost" Finale
My wife and I watched the “Lost” finale on Monday afternoon. I’d been hearing a lot of annoyed rumblings about the end and I had to see for myself. I’m a fan of the series. I was a late-comer and didn’t start until after Season 3 but since then I’ve never been more than a month [...]
Films Don't Provide Social Good Except When They Do
Posted by sean in Filmmaking on May 19, 2010
Over on Truly Free Film Ted Hope has a post from yesterday entitled Twelve Thoughts on the Value of Cinema. Generally speaking I agree with his points. It’s rare a movie actually justifies the cost of a ticket particularly as ticket prices rising closer and closer to the cost of owning your own DVD copy [...]
Screenplay Structure and Outlining
This morning I was doing some blog reading and came across Screenwriter411′s post STRUCTURE – The 9 Essential Scenes. It’s a good post about the necessity of structuring your story and outlining in screenwriting. I’m a fan of structure. What I have never been a fan of is outlining and planning. I find outlining frustrating. [...]
First Trailer for Modern Prometheus
Posted by sean in Featured, Filmmaking, Videos on January 27, 2010
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Help me fund my next short film
Posted by sean in Filmmaking on December 11, 2009
Over the past few months I’ve been working on shorts, some my own and some written and directed by friends João Lameira and Mafalda Melo. The work we’ve been doing has been instructive. We’ve made some mistakes and we’ve learned a lot. The shorts we’ve been working on have all been between 3 and 10 [...]
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