Make Your Story Really Stinkin’ Big (Book Review)

Posted by on Nov 1, 2013 in Books, Featured, Reviews, Reviews (Books) | 1 comment

Houston Howard's book challenges screenwriters/authors to take their simple story and turn it into a complex world. The focus of Mr. Howard's book is to incorporate a concept entitled “360 Degree StoryWeaving,” where the author of said story looks not only at the core story they want to write but looks far beyond it. These concepts not only include the past/present/future of the story being told, but to the entire universe it exists inside of. (As such, this framework can easily help you bridge into other platforms such as computer games...

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The Location Sound Bible (Review)

Posted by on Sep 28, 2012 in Books, Reviews, Reviews (Books) | 0 comments

Going one step further – you should only hire the sound guy. Sound is more important than the image. Repeating: SOUND IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN IMAGE. Why? There are many, many films out there that could be deemed “artsy” – from the closing scenes of 2001 a Space Odyssey to the long one-take shots from the film Children of Men. Bad acting, bad directing, bad set direction pale in comparison to bad sound. If the sounds in the above mentioned films were terrible – people would have been running for the exits.

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