The Filmmakers Despite consolidation by the majors, film production in the 1980s showed a healthy diversity. In part, this was due to the ancillary markets that voraciously demanded new product. But it was due as well to the robust energy of American...

Making Movies Breaking into the Business By 1915 the motion-picture industry had achieved a certain sophistication in the way it produced, marketed, and exhibited its pictures. Significant economic and industrial forces now acted to standardize these...

Technology The development of motion-picture technology during the silent-feature era was largely incremental. Increasing standardization and quality control brought filmmakers' tools up to a professional level undreamed of in the short-film era. Yet...

The ability to communicate with others is necessary in all avenues of life, but in space science and technology it is critical to the successful furtherance of spaceflight objectives because of the lesser importance that most individuals assign to the...

Filmmaking is the process of making a film, from an initial story idea or commission through scriptwriting, shooting, editing and finally distribution to an audience. Typically it involves a large number of people and can take anywhere between a few...

Digital Filmmaking By Mike Figgis Faber and Faber www.faber.co.uk FROM ACCLAIMED filmmaker/musician Mike Figgiscomesa literary espousal of digital filmmaking, at once an anecdotal account of the processes involved and a slimmed down autobiography. His career to date has seen him...

A frustrated filmmaker indulges himself in some venting Filmmaking is huge, like it or not. It seems like everywhere you turn, there's a group of teens or hipsters with a camera and a tripod, creating a "masterpiece." The indie filmmaker is the new...

A filmmaker who won an Oscar for a documentary about orphans of Chinese AIDS patients says Beijing is now more open about the disease after being accused of covering up the 2003 SARS outbreak."Since 2003, after SARS, they're open about it. I would say they're...

Friends and fans of the Dutch filmmaker found dead with a note pinned to his chest with a knife unveiled a memorial sculpture Sunday that depicts him screaming near the spot where he was murdered by an Islamic extremist.Mayor Job Cohen and a Dutch comedian...