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    Blending aerial & crane shots

    Okay guys, that's pretty much what I was asking - if it was something straightforward, with an "off the shelf" type of solution, or a technical challenge requiring a bespoke solution. Hadn't thought of drones though. Thanks.
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    Blending aerial & crane shots

    Say you want a blend these shots together so they appear seamless: Long aerial shot going over a landscape, then the camera slows and then looks down, and finally plunges down toward the distant subject; Crane shot takes over, going all the way down to eye level, turning horizontal near the...
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    How do you write fight scenes like this, believably?

    Both guys think they're the most bad ass, want to beat the other guy at h2h is a decent motivation. The end of Lethal Weapon is the best example I can think of. They didn't point guns at each other and then hesitate, but they really wanted a piece of each other and Riggs was willing to chuck...
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    How do you write fight scenes like this, believably?

    Caveat Emptor, I know next to nothing about filmmaking. I say this as a longtime advocate of and believer in more realism in motion pictures, novels, comics, etc; don't bother. It's a convention by now. People have seen it so many times, they accept it as just one of those silly things that...
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    Hallucinating

    Obvious, I know, and more a director's job I guess, but I thought I'd mention that as far as I can recall, the stock way to emphasize to the audience that they're seeing hallucinations is to cut back and forth between reality and the hallucination. Shot of guy's face in his vision, then cut to a...
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    PIXAR's 22 rules of storytelling

    I was nodding all the way up to 18. I was even nodding through the first clause, but the second and the following sentence have left me scratching my head. Anyone "get it" and want to explain? I picked back up and "got" the rest, but I still don't know what 18 is supposed to mean.
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    Realism in script writing

    The guy who mentioned experience took my line. I'll add knowledge. Experience and knowledge (and brains, of course) will help a lot here. E.g., I read a paper by the FBI once on gunshot wounds. Long story short, no, people don't generally die instantly when they're shot. In fact, they don't...
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    Character Development

    To add to this good advice, I suggest considering your character as an idea. Is he a hardass, a poet, what's he about? Uncompromising integrity (maybe to the point of madness), service of the greater good, his own selfish needs and nothing else, will to power, what? If you can nail down who you...
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    How do I make a scene like this work?

    You could totally make that work. But I think you need to make it work for you, not against you. Like, use the difference to shift the mood, or suggest your theme, that kind of thing. For example, your guy goes home to his SO. We see him go through the usual home type motions, kiss his wife, sit...
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    Any good examples of Screenwriting converted to Story board?

    Only about a hundred zillion of them. They're called comic books. :) Seriously though, it's called "narrative art," and there are more similarities with storyboarding than differences. Frank Miller's a good place to start.
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    Bond 23

    Bond used to be funny, but the last two films were drained of all fun, much less humor. Now it's all so serious. That's not proper Bond IMO. I never went in for the camp, or the gadget proliferation that followed in Connery's wake, either, but it was better than this new "post-modern" Bond...
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    Favourite Vampire Movie

    Easily the best IMO. Second place is tough. Interview was pretty good. I prefer movies about people who kill vampires to movies about vampires, so I'm not really the target demo. I'd really like to see a series about killing vampires, or a good movie about killing a vampire or vampires.
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    Atlas Shrugged

    I'm not a libertarian, but I do share quite a few of their beliefs and sentiments. I'm closer to a libertarian than I am to red or blue, that's for sure. That said, I don't have any respect for Rand, for various reasons. Just wanted to make some disclosure before I pointed out the "conspiracy...
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    dvd distribution via download?

    Nope. And it's obviously illegal, regardless. Absolutely. But that still isn't at all the same thing as saying copying a movie is theft. You have to look at individual responsibility; referring to the entire fact of "everyone having access to the movie without paying for it" is a bit of a...
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    dvd distribution via download?

    That's like saying I have to take the Inquisition's word on doctrine because they're the ones who investigate witchcraft. Okay, not a great analogy, because I don't mean to challenge legitimacy here. I'm just saying, since when does the FBI define A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G for grownups? No, if the FBI...
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