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About This Section
Lumet said it plainly: there are no minor decisions in filmmaking. Every decision either contributes to a good piece of work — or brings the whole thing down months later.
The Curriculum
01
Development
1 lesson
02
Pre-Production
1 lesson
03
Production
3 lessons
04
Post-Production
4 lessons
05
Business & Career
0 lessons
06
Forms & Frontiers
4 lessons
Turning an idea into a story strong enough to make.
The money, the plan, and the preparation between a finished script and the first day on set.
The shoot itself — directing, performing, capturing, designing, and staging the film.
Where the film is finally made — the cut, the sound, the music, the colour, and the effects.
Getting the film seen — and building a sustainable life in the industry that made it.
The distinct forms filmmaking takes, and the technologies reshaping what cinema can be.
Editing
Walter Murch, one of the greatest editors in cinema history, developed a hierarchy for evaluating cuts. He called it the Rule of Six. The first criterion is emotion. The last is the technical consider
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