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Our first thought was that we probably lost all the film we shot that day and will need to re-shoot- on our dime. Secondly, we needed to get another camera ASAP so we could finish the food shots; third, we

So we were shooting a 30-second commercial for Molly McButter. (You know it has BIG butter taste, without a bit of butter fat-says the jingle which the ad agency spent a mint on,) It was a nice spot- live action

I saw a great film over the weekend. It is called Infamous and it is the other film about Truman Capote writing In Cold Blood. I like Capote and think Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener are very good, but

The wheel that my mouse runs on that gets the filmmaker101 house onto the internet is on the fritz (or I am out of cheese) so there will be no post until it is repaired. Stay Tuned. PeterH

This is Tim Curry from Rocky Horror. Sorry for the confusion. I have been admonished. This is Tim Burton, the film director- Batman, etc…. I know the difference between the two men, thank you. About 15 years ago I was

Al Gore’s internet (or is it the Information Superhighway? The Interweb?) does a fantastic job connecting people who would otherwise not know each other. Hardly news, butI am still amazed by it. A friend of mine from the gym told

My post on Stop Making Sense got me thinking of music in films. I am not talking about musicals like Singin’ in the Rain, or documentaries like Woodstock, but movies where musical performances push the story forward and show us

It was strange walking through the halls at school yesterday. In my mind I kept wondering what it would have been like to be at Virginia Tech. Fortunately for me my imagination is not good enough to conjure up those

I am taking the day off from blogging to honor the students, faculty and family who lost loved ones at Virginia Tech University. Peace. PeterH,

Students often talk about not knowing what to write about. There are several stock answers- write about what you know, create a character first, then have your story spin out of that. In one of the best screenwriting classes I