'Looney Tunes' Storytelling Tips, Ron Howard's Directing Advice, & How to Shoot in a Hall of Mirrors

🖋️ Screenwriting

Watch 800 Looney Tunes Cartoons For Free to Improve Your Storytelling

Believe it or not, but watching Looney Tunes is an excellent way to learn how to tell better stories. They introduce characters quickly, provide instant stakes, and the worldbuilding is impeccable.

So, let’s go over some great storytelling lessons you can learn from this classic cartoon.

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🗞️ Quick Reads for Screenwriting

• Alan Moore's 5 Essential Tips for Screenwriters - Are you a comic fan? Do you binge Watchmen? Then you know Alan Moore.

• This is What's Killing Your Writing Style According to The Cultural Tutor - If your writing feels flat, this is how to revive it.

• The 'PROBLEM' Framework That Makes Erik Bork's Writing Work - Here are three amazing tips to beef up your screenwriting.

🎬 Directing

5 Tips from Ron Howard on Filmmaking

Ron Howard has done it all and been on both sides of the camera, creating some iconic characters and images and directing some of my favorite films, like Apollo 13, Rush, and A Beautiful Mind. He’s one of the rare people who has found success regardless of genre.

Check out the following tips from his decades of experience in the industry.

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🗞️ Quick Reads for Directing

• Darren Aronofsky's Mind Games Failed on 'Black Swan' - Should directors try to manipulate their actors?

• Did You Know? 'Gone Girl' Uses Voiceover to Trick You - How Amy Dunne’s diary voiceover draws us in—only to twist the knife later.

 🎥 Cinematography

How We Pulled Off the Insane Mirror Sequence for 'Nobody 2'

In this guest post, cinematographer Callan Green ACS NZCS takes you behind the scenes of his work on Nobody 2, starring Bob Odenkirk, specifically how he and his team pulled off the crazy “hall of mirrors” sequence.

If you’re an aspiring DP, or a pro that wants to learn new, clever lighting and camera tricks, you’ll want to give this a read.

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🗞️ Quick Reads for Cinematography

• The Gaffer's Dictionary: A Glossary of Lighting & Grip Equipment - Learn all the terms you need to know to be helpful on set.

• How DP Larkin Seiple Shot 250 Scenes in 50 Days for 'Weapons' - Inside the high-speed cinematography and creative problem-solving behind the thriller’s breakneck schedule.

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