Tag: editing

• March 7, 2013

  Little Shop of Horrors: The Theatrical vs The Director’s Cut vs The Workprint

  I’m reeling a little. This morning, I was lecturing about screenwriting in general (and pleasing your audience in particular) and I mentioned the 1986 version of Little Shop of Horrors. I spoke about that notorious test screening where the “Would you recommend to a friend?” cards allegedly came back with only 13% of affirmatives, dictating that…
• December 21, 2012

  Independent Filmmaking: Cameras and Kit

  Indie filmmakers will argue about kit and formats until the end of the world (which, at the time of writing, is scheduled to be in about an hour according to nutjobs and the easily distracted), yet I’ve somehow managed to keep this blog going for six years or so without ever writing about it once.…