Archive for February 2008

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Cinema inside the crystal ball

A kind of Panel Discussion about the Filmmaking of the Future. Adita Assarat, filmmaker and Wolfgang Müller-Pietralla, Futurist Scientist of the Volkswagen Company discussed about the meaning of cinema in the next 20-30 Years. For Adita the Cinema in it’s present form is a dying branch and interactive Cinema aka. epic Videogames will be the [...]

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In the Limelight: Mike Leight

The Talk with Mike Leight was all about his way of doing the Job as a filmmaker. So I’ll give you a short overview of it.
First he starts with an Idea about a film. He writes it down as a 5 to 6 pages draft which has all the things that should happen in some [...]

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Heroes vs. Anti-Heroes

Heroes vs. Anti-Heroes

The Panel (well, 4 of 5)
A Panel Discussion about Heroes that are not really good and how to show them to the Audience.
The Talk mainly focused about the Question why the Anti-Heroues are so loved in Cinema. All seemed to agree that a Character that is not pure good, but also not pure bad [...]

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In the Limelight: Stephen Daldry

In the Limelight: Stephen Daldry

Stephen Daldry
Stephen Daldry, filmmaker of Billy Elliot and The Hours explained how to adapt a novel without taking the emotional depth out of it. He also explained how to work with actors and actresses to get the person on screen like he wanted it to be. We also got to know his problems in the [...]

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Two Producers sharing their secrets

Two Producers sharing their secrets

Two Producers sharing their secrets
Producer Iain Smith (Killing Fields, Cold Mountain, Children of Men, Wanted) and Sandy Lieberson (former President of 20th Century Fox) shared their secrets with us. And it was mainly Iain Smith who talked and Sandy did the host mostly, just adding some things when he thought it would help. Iain told [...]

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The Talent Campus

The Talent Campus

Berlinale Talent Campus 08
The Berlinale Talent Campus is a mix between working sessions, where you use your skills, readings in which you can get a lot of behind-the-scene information and meating a lot of, hopefully, talented filmmakers from around the world.
Even if you are not acceptet as a member you can visit a lot [...]

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Berlinale Talent Campus

Berlinale Talent Campus

GPSchnyder - Mobile Office
Right now I’m sitting in the waiting line for buying some tickets for the Berlinale. Some Tickets for movies. The tickets for the Talent Campus are bought. All of them. Well, all that I wanted in fact.
As I quoted the summary of them one or two Posts ago I [...]

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ProRes via Firewire

Just a little linktip as I am working on the Trailer for redliquid blues (german speaking website only till now) and preparing for my flight to the Berlinale. At little frog in high def there is an Post about advanced techniqus to capture ProRes via firewire. It also tells you to read an article at [...]

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