Description
Five keys to creating authentic, distinctive work, whether you are a student, professional or simply love making films on your own For
Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out, three professors at the renowned University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television interviewed fifteen outstanding filmmakers, then distilled their insights into the "Five I's" of creativity. Learn how to:
- Uncover your unique creative voice (Introspection)
- Work from real-life observations and experience (Inquiry)
- Draw on your nonconscious wells of creativity (Intuition)
- Strengthen your creative collaborations (Interaction)
- Communicate at the deepest level with your audience (Impact)
This comprehensive approach provides practical exercises that will enrich and transform your work, whether you are looking for a story idea, lighting a set, editing a scene or selecting a music cue.
The participating filmmakers, who have collectively won or been nominated for 39 Oscars and 27 Emmys, are: Anthony Minghella, writer-director
(The English Patient); Kimberly Peirce, writer-director
(Boys Don't Cry); John Lasseter, writer-director-producer
(Toy Story); John Wells, writer-producer
(ER); Hanif Kureishi, writer
(My Beautiful Laundrette); Pamela Douglas, writer
(Between Mother and Daughter); Renee Tajima-Peña, director-producer
(My America...or, Honk If You Love Buddha); Ismail Merchant, producer
(The Remains of the Day); Jeannine Oppewall, production designer
(L.A. Confidential); Conrad L. Hall, cinematographer
(American Beauty); Kathy Baker, actor
(Picket Fences); Walter Murch, sound designer-editor
(Apocalypse Now); Lisa Fruchtman, editor
(The Right Stuff); Kate Amend, editor
(Into the Arms of Strangers); and James Newton Howard, composer
(The Sixth Sense).
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