Friday, 31 May 2013

Danny Boyle’s 15 Golden Rules of Moviemaking

Danny Boyle is one of my favourite directors (the other being JJ Abrams), I just came across this piece he wrote recently, some very good tips in here :) Written By Danny Boyle 1. A DIRECTOR MUST BE A PEOPLE PERSON  • Ninety-five percent of your job is handling personnel. People who’ve never done it imagine that it’s some act, like painting a Picasso from a blank canvas, but it’s not like that. Directing is mostly about handling people’s egos, vulnerabilities and moods. It’s all about trying to bring everybody to a boil at the right moment....

Thursday, 30 May 2013

Finished At Long Last.

It is ridiculous how fast time goes by. I'm now nineteen years old and have been in education since I was four. Fifteen years sounds like an awfully long time, and at times it felt like it would never end, but now that I am finished school it feels like only a few days ago I was thirteen and going into first year. I still have to take state exams next week to see if I will get into college or not, but I am technically finished with the whole being a secondary student thing. It feels weird. For most of my life I've had a constant structure...