I just finished a screenplay for a piece inspired by my first mentor, PeterBogdanovich. I wrote him months back to thank him for allowing me to tag along with him on the Paper Moon shoot and for being such an influence in my current work, and he asked to see it when I was done. He passed away before I had finished, and now I wonder who is out there that would even be approachable to that style of filmmaking. Any ideas?
Filmmaking / Directing : Who are the new classicist directors? by John Goldsberry
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Hi,hope we all make our visions came true and dream with no caution
I don't know what qualifies as "classicist", actually. Could you describe it?
Bogdanovich was mentored by John Ford and Orson Wells (who thought him tricks like using a red filter to shoot black and white to heighten the contrast) Other trademarks were long focus shots (think that scene in Citizen Kane where you have the adults conversing in a living room while outside the window we can also see two children play on their sled all in one shot.) the muted tonality and long continuous takes. From Ford, he learned to be sparing of camera movement preferring static medium or long shots, panoramic tracking, and recurring visual motifs, the latter being a big part of this story told in echos. It probably isn't as exciting viewed by current audiences as a more modern cinematic style but is called for in this script in its more impressionistic style. David Fincher and Spielberg are both fond of this style, but the chance of getting to talk to either of them is minuscule.
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