source What are the Duties of an Assisant Director? Joe Njiki asks: There is this unending contoversy about the role of an assistant director and what is supposed to be his job. Some people in the industry have gone as far as creating things such as “Artistic director” simply because nobody wants to an “assistant”  [ Read More ]

I found this article on Variety.com and think it’s really interesting. Source   Location shoots: Rewarding, but risky Shooting goes smoothly for ‘Hereafter’ By PETER CARANICAS peter.caranicas@variety.com Shooting a major feature around the world is something like mounting a military campaign, with location managers coordinating the action on several fronts. Clint Eastwood’s “Hereafter” centers on  [ Read More ]

http://library.creativecow.net has a very nice and long article about On Set Keying. That’s basically when they use a green screen in studios and use the computer to put reality and virtual together live on Set. It is something quite important to place objects or actors in the green screen scene for example, also to make  [ Read More ]

Experience the studio time of New Moon

I got in touch with Anthony Zierhut, who is an experienced storyboard and animatics artist. His work include but are not limited to Scooby Doo, Spiderman 2&3, Shrek goes Fourth, Bedazzled, The perfect score… Don’t hesitate to check his website out here. Here are a couple of interviews he provided me with. Interview 1 Interview  [ Read More ]

page 1 page 1 It is now official. As per Summit Entertainment official website: Los Angeles, CA April 22, 2009 — Summit Entertainment announced today that David Slade has been hired to direct THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE from a screenplay written by Melissa Rosenberg. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE, the third film in the studio’s TWILIGHT  [ Read More ]

page 1 page 1 ***There is a rumor going on about the New Moon music composer. It looks like Carter Burwell will not be coming back. As I understand it, the director of New Moon, Chris Weitz, has hired Alexandre Desplat to composer the music for the film. Desplat composed the music for Weitz’ earlier  [ Read More ]

source Twilight filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke is “devastated” she won’t be directing the smash hit film’s sequel New Moon – but insists it was her decision to pull out of the running. The movie maker scored the biggest debut ever for a female director when the bloodsucking love story shot to number one in the U.S.  [ Read More ]

source page1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page1 Question: Why would you say is the reason for the incredible popularity of the series that you started? What do you think the essence of why so many twelve and fourteen year old girls cannot live without reading every one of these books? Stephenie Meyer: I  [ Read More ]

Source Stephenie Meyer: This is me with the humans who don’t get enough love and director Catherine Hardwicke in the “Forks” high school cafeteria. I got to watch the filming of several key lunch scenes, and see how amazingly well the actors were portraying those human characters. Watching them be Mike and Eric and Jessica  [ Read More ]