Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out: Five Keys to the Art of Making Inspired Movies and Television

Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out: Five Keys to the Art of Making Inspired Movies and Television

Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out: Five Keys to the Art of Making Inspired Movies and Television
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Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-03-01
ISBN: 0743223195
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Fireside

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Book Review: An inspiration for teachers and students
Summary: 5 Stars

I teach a seminar for teenagers in digital video. When I started designing the curriculum, it was mostly a "how-to" kind of thing. After reading this book, I changed the whole focus of the seminar. I asked the kids to look inside themselves and think about what they, personally, had to say. I said, "You are like kids who have been given a big box of crayons. Do you want to scribble on the wall, or do you want draw something special from your heart?" When they turned in their treatments for their video projects, they had taken the ideas of this book to heart.
This book should be required reading for anyone who teaches filmmaking or is starting out as a filmmker. It will get them on the right track!

Summary of Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out: Five Keys to the Art of Making Inspired Movies and Television

Five keys to creating authentic, distinctive work, whether you are a student, professional or simply love making films on your own

For Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out, three professors at the renowned University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television interviewed fifteen outstanding filmmakers, then distilled their insights into the "Five I's" of creativity. Learn how to:


? Uncover your unique creative voice (Introspection)

? Work from real-life observations and experience (Inquiry)

? Draw on your nonconscious wells of creativity (Intuition)

? Strengthen your creative collaborations (Interaction)

? Communicate at the deepest level with your audience (Impact)


This comprehensive approach provides practical exercises that will enrich and transform your work, whether you are looking for a story idea, lighting a set, editing a scene or selecting a music cue.

The participating filmmakers, who have collectively won or been nominated for 39 Oscars and 27 Emmys, are:

Anthony Minghella, writer-director (The English Patient); Kimberly Peirce, writer-director (Boys Don't Cry); John Lasseter, writer-director-producer (Toy Story); John Wells, writer-producer (ER); Hanif Kureishi, writer (My Beautiful Laundrette); Pamela Douglas, writer (Between Mother and Daughter); Renee Tajima-Peña, director-producer (My America...or, Honk If You Love Buddha); Ismail Merchant, producer (The Remains of the Day); Jeannine Oppewall, production designer (L.A. Confidential); Conrad L. Hall, cinematographer (American Beauty); Kathy Baker, actor (Picket Fences); Walter Murch, sound designer-editor (Apocalypse Now); Lisa Fruchtman, editor (The Right Stuff); Kate Amend, editor (Into the Arms of Strangers); and James Newton Howard, composer (The Sixth Sense).

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