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it's really dependent on the director. some just do coverage (i.e. switch the position of the camera for each scene) and some run multiple cameras. it's just the director's aestethics when directing a scene. i'm a fan of a lot of screwball comedies and those are done with two-shots with long...

I didn't forget Goodfellas. It's pretty much understood that all the long steadicam shots done by a lot of the "hip" directors nowadays are more as a reference to Saint Scorsese than an aide in storytelling. I was just noting two post-Goodfellas uses of the long shots. Scorsese's not the...

I put down comedy, but the comedy that I write isn't anywhere close to the comedies that have a combination of Luke Wilson/Owen Wilson/Will Ferrell/Ben Stiller/Jack Black/Steve Carell/VInce Vaugh/Ben Stiller or all together. Besides any time I try to write the scene where the family cries over...

-Adjusting the shutter to create that strobe light effect in action sequences. Right after Ridley Scott directed Gladiator it became overused. -A line of people walking in slow-mo towards the camera, like they're The Right Stuff. Like George Carlin once said, "You're not fucking cool. You're...

I try to write whatever comes to me, but no matter what it is that I give a whack at writing ends up having comedic elements of some sort. So just for the sake of not wasting words, let's just call it comedy. Plus I used to do open mic stand up back when I was in college. If anyone would like...

Not much for me to say. I'm from the central Georgia area and I like writing screenplays. I wish my life were one of some sort of zest so that I might have something more to say here, but oh well. Hello and hello nonetheless.

1. The 400 Blows (Truffaut) 2. Annie Hall (Allen) 3. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel) 4. Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick) 5. Ghostbusters (Reitman) 6. His Girl Friday (Hawks) 7. La Dolce Vita (Fellini) 8. Network (Lumet) 9. Raging Bull...