Video: Jay O’Callahan

Sometimes we need to stop for a moment and think about what we're really doing. We're telling stories.

As filmmakers, our stories are not in the first place for ourselves; they are for an audience.


Jay O'Callahan has a great story to illustrate how the listener played a role in coming up with his story. If you have 15mins, this is a video worth watching.

 

Jay O'Callahan: The Power of Storytelling from 99% on Vimeo.


With thanks to Adrian Kok.

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Video: Scorsese on Story vs. Plot

Jon Favreau interviewing Martin Scorsese for the third season of Dinner for Five. In this excerpt Jon asks him about story versus plot in filmmaking. A comment on YouTube says: “Favreau has no idea what Scorsese is talking about”.

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Video: Mark Fergus

About the first Iron Man, someone told me they had been making it up as they went along. I didn’t believe it.
For such a humongous production, this was surely impossible. Well, after listening to this interview with Mark Fergus, I must suspend my disbelief.

“There’s a lot of ideas that I think needed to be paired back, as maybe belong in the sequel,” Fergus says and also:”It had the vibe of an indie film. The collaborative spirit and the fun and the tension that you would expect on some giant movie wasn’t there. It felt like an intimate family kinda trying to figure out problems and work through stuff.”

Makes me want to watch the film again.

With thanks to Louise Lee Mei and Niels Abercrombie.

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Video: Aaron Sorkin

The Social Network director David Fincher is now tipped for an ADG Award and with the rumors about the movie’s Academy Award potential heating up, I thought you may enjoy watching this interview with writer Aaron Sorkin.

The best part of the interview sits around the 2mins mark, when Sorkin talks about how he used the three conflicting versions of the facts. Later (around 6mins) he talks about his early acting and the origins of his love for dialogue.

With thanks to Louise Lee Mei and Niels Abercrombie.

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