Professional Film Analysis

Is filmmaking art, technology, or business? The answer is, yes. Film is an art form, but it's also a very technical and very expensive art form. You can think of filmmaking as a three-legged stool of art, technology and money. And if one of those three is weak, the process suffers.Our brain has two ways of working. We have a creative, imaginative mind, and we also have an analytical mind. So how do we get the analytical left brain and the intuitive right brain to work together to make a movie? The easiest way to describe it is as a back and forth: you have an impulse and you create something, then you examine and analyze it, then you re-create it, but on a different level with the insight from the analysis that you did.Writers, poets, mystics, philosophers, even scientists create and discover through what I call the creative cycle or creative spiral. And you'll find it permeating the process of human creation in widely varying fields.The key to powerful creative stories lies in the unconscious mind. The creative cycle is the process of drawing the best material into consciousness.This is foundational to all creative work and especially to filmmaking. I'll be referring back to these principles in other videos because it's always part of the process.🎬 Deep Dive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ProfessionalFilmAnalysis ✉️ Newsletter on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/professionalfilmanalysis/p/the-creative-spiral-and-the-filmmakers?

It's a sad reality: the audience doesn't care about your character -- and your story -- until you put the hook in them and make them care. This Quick Take episode shows how the right kind of introductory shot of a character can start the process of drawing the audience in so you can get them on board for the full journey of your story.Read the article on Substack Watch the video

What happens in the mystical darkness of a movie theater? Experiences beyond ordinary life, sometimes life changing.What is the storytelling craft, the psychology and neurology that make cinematic storytelling so powerful?This is the story of how film analysis was born—in a classroom at the American Film Institute 1968, when a Czech refugee named Frank Daniel tried an innovative approach to teaching film. Taking a film apart, piece by piece to examine the moving parts and how they affected the viewer. And in that classroom, learning to see movies through professional eyes, were filmmakers who would change movies forever. Watch the video:  https://youtu.be/T8hj8aQFCfARead more in Substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-188277101