Recently in writing Category
The blog from Cosolidated Films follows the philosiphy of find fans, then make the film. They has an interesting post titled, 'Marketing Your Film Through Finding Actors' . Basically they highlight that if you take some time to put intestesing people in all those small roles, or make sure you have lots of small roles in your film, these people in turn will be evalgalists for your finshed product.
A greatway to see how true this is at the WASA Wednesday screenings that are currently on during the Fremantle Outdoor Film Festival, chasing the covetted 'Most Popular Film Award', filmmakers encourage as many people as possible to come down and see their film. Yet films that have more actors, can rely on more grandmas, aunts and uncles, flatmates and friends of each performer to be dragged along as well.
What the article of course fails to mention is that a film with lots of small parts is of course a lot harder to write and film.
A greatway to see how true this is at the WASA Wednesday screenings that are currently on during the Fremantle Outdoor Film Festival, chasing the covetted 'Most Popular Film Award', filmmakers encourage as many people as possible to come down and see their film. Yet films that have more actors, can rely on more grandmas, aunts and uncles, flatmates and friends of each performer to be dragged along as well.
What the article of course fails to mention is that a film with lots of small parts is of course a lot harder to write and film.
Interested in television writing, the BBC's Writer Room is a great resource, even for writers outside of the UK. The site contains tips on writing for television, up coming opportunites, a blog, sample scripts and heaps more.
Wouldn;t it be brilliant if the ABC or SBS had something like this?
Wouldn;t it be brilliant if the ABC or SBS had something like this?
