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The Island This website is, in actuality, an island entirely composed of the work of William S. Davis. The following instructions are designed to make your stay on the island as enjoyable as possible. The idea behind everything on this island is simple: Create New Solutions to Creative Challenges. I want to find new connections ...
Saturday Night Cine Club 2013
As the new year rolls around, The Charlotte Film Society has just announced the first half of its 2013 program that will be showing some amazing films in its Saturday Night Cine Club series. [Still from Icíar Bollaín's 'Even the Rain'] The series, which began in July 2009, presents foreign and independent films once a month in ...
The Gods Are Against Us
Troubleshooting Natural & Unnatural Set Challenges I’ve had a running joke with my film collaborators that for every project I create, there’s a force working to destroy my films. What began as a fluke incident on one film has spread to something that is a challenge on nearly every project I work on. Now, we ...
Props: A Little, A Long Way
RThis essay is the second in a series regarding the role of the Art Department in filmmaking. To read Part I of the series, click here. PART II: PROPS The role of the prop varies from scene to scene, film to film & filmmaker to filmmaker. For Alfred Hitchcock, props personified the McGuffin, from the newspaper in Psycho ...
The Perfect Working Formula
The Perfect Client + Working Principles Before going into any project venture, it’s absolutely important to arm & empower yourself with a set of criteria to help ensure that you are not only going into a project for the right reasons, but so you’re able to maintain a clarity of vision regarding how your decisions ...
The Long & Lone Quest for an Art Department
This essay is the first in a series regarding the role of the Art Department in filmmaking. PART I: THE ART DEPARTMENT When I develop my film projects, I consider ‘development’ to be an all-inclusive term. By that, I believe in the development of story & character, scenes & performances as well as editing & ...