by michaelneelsen | Feb 20, 2013 | Social Media, Trends | Best Practices
Watch this awesome video and tell us what you think … Roger Ebert in a recent post with this video asked, “Are social media creating something wonderful for the human race? Or are they the first step toward the formation of a Hive Mind?” Well Roger,...
by michaelneelsen | Feb 20, 2013 | A Film Sense
I have recently been studying the works of the early Soviet film pioneers and their respective texts. While Sergei Eisenstein is the most remembered today, it’s important not to forget that he was but one member of an entire movement in world cinema history that took...
by michaelneelsen | Feb 20, 2011 | A Film Sense
“No scene that doesn’t turn.” Such is the motto of Robert McKee’s bible for storytellers, Story. Until I read his book a couple years ago and started hearing more and more screenwriters refer to “turns” and “reversals” and “turning left when they think you’ll turn...