How to be a Screenwriter
1 – Watch Great Movies If you want to learn how to be a screenwriter, one of the very best things you can do to start learning and imbibing screenplay structure is by watching...
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Film Connection student Reem Rawi Gets Real World Cinematography Experience
As mother to a young daughter, experienced photographer Reem Rawi needed a cinematography program which would suite her schedule and enable her to learn at a rapid pace. Her search ultimately led her to...
How to Start a Film Production Company
A film production company is responsible for nearly every aspect of the movie-making process. Once a movie has been given the green light, the production house goes to work. For smaller companies – or...
Original Movie Ideas: Is my idea good enough to be a movie?
It’s been said, most recently by Christopher Booker, that there are just seven basic plotlines in all of the storytelling. Booker’s book, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, was written in 2004...
About Filmmaking Schools
What should you consider when choosing a filmmaking school? First, are you serious about making films (as opposed to going to filmmaking school because it sounds like fun.) Do you have, in the words...
What do Movie Production Companies do?
Usually operating under the umbrella of a major studio like 20th Century Fox, either as a sister company, subsidiary, or division, production companies are responsible for getting movies made. Production houses are tasked with...
How to Write a Movie?
Writing for movies is a specialized skill—it differs greatly from “normal” writing (i.e. writing a novel). Books and movies both start with a story idea. From there, the process of writing a movie is...
The film industry: What you should know before you start.
Every year some 800 movies are released in North America. On average each of these movies spent five months in pre-production, two to three months in production and ten months in post-production before it...
A Day in the Life of a Screenwriter
We recently asked longtime Film Connection mentor Ron Osborn (Meet Joe Black, Moonlighting, Duckman, The West Wing) to tell us a bit more about how he manages his day-to-day life as a screenwriter. What...
Roundtable with Film Connection mentor, producer Richard Brandes, Los Angeles.
In order to be sure we’re continually setting our students up for success, we’ve started having bi-monthly meetings at our “headquarters” in Los Angeles. During these sessions, one of our mentors will come into...
