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99% Of Filmmakers Make This Mistake With Their First Movie - Anthony DiBlasi

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Anthony DiBlasi graduated film school at Emerson College in Boston MA. Upon moving to Los Angeles he became a protégé of filmmaker/novelist Clive Barker. DiBlasi partnered in Barker's production company Midnight Picture Show for nearly ten years, serving as a key executive & producer on films such as "Midnight Meat Train" (2008) and "Book of Blood" (2009). DiBlasi made his directorial debut with the psychological thriller "Dread" (2009), a feature film he wrote based on the Clive Barker short story of the same name. "Dread" was released theatrically in January of 2010 and went on to win Best Independent Feature at the 2010 Spike Scream Awards.
He directed and co-wrote "Last Shift" a critically acclaimed supernatural horror film released by Magnolia Pictures in 2015. And directed "Extremity" a psychological thriller based on Extreme Haunts, released in 2018 by Epic Pictures.
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@filmcourage 6 ай бұрын

What do you think?

@ryanhowell4492 6 ай бұрын

it’s helpful

@appads 6 ай бұрын

Personally, I'd rather watch a movie with too much ambition for the budget, than one with bad sound, bad acting, and a boring script. You can work around low budget limitations and still make something entertaining, but if you fumble the fundamentals, it's hard to watch. That being said, if you want a nicely polished piece, knowing and working within your limitations is essential.

@raven7Mason 6 ай бұрын

Makes sense if you've ever done the work

@geoffhoutman1557 6 ай бұрын

1 min per page is still a good rule, but not a law. How long was the Taxi Driver script 80 pages or so?

@tadeuszjanuszewski 6 ай бұрын

I am an engineer and amateur filmmaker. I am pursuing the same approach and I am so glad hearing from a pro, that this is a good way.

@user-zd1jh5zz9n 6 ай бұрын

Thank You very much- Film Courage and Anthony. I really enjoyed this interview. I thought listening to him to - Gene Hackman.. Gene could play a role and to me one of the most versatile actors ever. I loved him in the Poeseidon Adventure. I'm sure he wasn't a 100 percent according to the script. Anthony you are awesome... Thanks very much for sharing.

@ryanhowell4492 6 ай бұрын

This a very helpful

@CarlMickens 6 ай бұрын

Good interview

@filmcourage 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Carl!

@Sketching4Sanity 6 ай бұрын

Love 💪🏿

@stormlantern1274 6 ай бұрын

This unrelated to this video - a question - in screenwriting how much is a writer suppose to direct camera shots? Some scripts I've read seem to do the Director's job for them. Can't camera shots be left up to the director?

@Yo_DynamoJoe 6 ай бұрын

From what I've always read, the scripts you see with detailed camera shots and acting notes within the dialogue are usually shooting scripts, in other words scripts that are assembled for pubic consumption after the film has been shot. For that reason they usually wind up being very close to what you see on screen. Typically, and anyone who knows better feel free to correct me, a script that is to be submitted to an agent/reader/executive/director/actor usually has very minimal direction of any kind. *That* script is for creating excitement, selling the concept, and hopefully building a strong enough skeleton for the story that it survives the inevitable changes that happen during production and is still recognizable after the final cut. Writing in such a manner, in which the screenwriter is careful to not decorate every page with their own vision, intentionally leaves space for the collaborative nature of filmmaking, of which the writer is but one component.

@stormlantern1274 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for answering the question.

@filmcourage 6 ай бұрын

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@neskyz4259 2 ай бұрын

Prepping for my first feature…a contained horror/thriller with 2 onscreen actors and one offscreen actress. Only two locations, very minimal camera movements (think Ryan Reynolds BURIED) meets Dennis Weaver’s DUEL). Shooting schedule complete, props ready, camera and sound team ready to go (famous last words). Wish me luck!!

@wexwuthor1776 6 ай бұрын

When you say the dialouge doesn't matter, I get worried.

@samlukowski3562 6 ай бұрын

Well, for what it's worth; in a Live Performance, Words are the Story. In a Recorded Performance, Reactions are the Story. 🎭

@whengrapespop5728 6 ай бұрын

@@samlukowski3562Yes and no. Despite the term “show, don’t tell”, reactions must make sense to the dialogue, and good reactions are a response to good dialogue. Doesn’t mean the dialogue has to be excessive.

@samlukowski3562 6 ай бұрын

@whengrapespop5728 agree to disagree - actions speak louder than words and characters can lie - we're called actors, not talkers, and not feelers. No disrespect - just disagreement.

@whengrapespop5728 6 ай бұрын

@@samlukowski3562 I don’t see how that contradicts my statement?

@MrBrothasky 5 ай бұрын

I think it is alright to allow an actor to slightly alter the wording of dialogue if the same point comes across. Though, there may be those precise lines of dialogue that may completely throw off the meaning of the entire project if said differently. I like to believe that art requires a willingness to compromise in places and pick your battles. You may not get a 1:1 in your vision, but it could give you better results than what you had initially conceived.

@VincentStevenStudio 6 ай бұрын

I already made that mistake for one of my shorts. It bummed me out and cost me thousands of dollars. But, I won't make that mistake and many others again because of it.

@MariWakocha 6 ай бұрын

A little guilty of overextending here, but I feel like I don't have any ideas that really fit the reasonable budget I can get. But I still want my ideas to get to the screen, so I tend to try it anyway 😅 By doing that I've found that most of the time I can achieve much more than I thought was reasonable to expect, but you do still see that we were on a budget and it gets a B movie feel. It's a difficult balance honestly.

@abelmatw 6 ай бұрын

Try writing about a writer who feels that his ideas don’t stick to the budget he has. See where it leads you :)

@whengrapespop5728 6 ай бұрын

A good example of a “low” budget approach is *Good Will Hunting;* fantastic movie, but they shot the movie at only a handful of low cost locations with only a small amount of characters. I say “low”, because they did have more than an ‘entry level’ budget, but they put all their money into hiring actors like Robin Williams and Stellan Skarsgård. The script itself was initially written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in a shared apartment as a college assignment, and they kept it realistic.

@grantgreyguda 6 ай бұрын

👍 👍

@anthonydiblasi3062 5 ай бұрын

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@constantsmile3370 5 ай бұрын

Why are so many of these people working in the horror genre? Is it because the stories are formulaic and this genre has a good profit model? Where’s the love for drama? I just don’t get it

@thisricardopalma 6 ай бұрын

45 minutes is wasted money if you get paid to write if not is wasted time.

@hbgstorm 6 ай бұрын

Movies has become so lame that i never in my life wanted the good guys to die, there's no danger anymore , you can't feel anything, you just want the bad guys to kill the good guys thats how u likable the characters are.

@homeland1128 6 ай бұрын

what is bro only genre to watch? lmao them "movies has become so lame" take clearly said you're just watched prob like only 2 to 3 genres max lol watch lots of genres first, it's not lAmE you're just haven't found your fav genres yet

@hbgstorm 6 ай бұрын

@@homeland1128 thriller, mystery, science fiction, action, horror. That enough for you ?

@homeland1128 6 ай бұрын

@@hbgstorm only all that basic ahh? 😭😭 sorry but clearly u js helped me prove my point lol ok lemme help u, try to watch documentaries, slasher, psychological horror, found footages (the legendary ones like blair witch or vhs ofc, don't even come @ me wit them paranormal activities, although some of them are pretty good lmao) Or if u want some crazier shi that could only be resulted in either the best movie you'll ever watch or "what's the shit I've just watched?" you could try experimental horror like skinamarink or the Lazarus effect

@davidginn6551 6 ай бұрын

⁠@@homeland1128 Okay, yeah, but by this years lineup alone, you got: Fast 10 The Marvels The Flash Blue Beetle All Other Marvel And DC Films Wish Elemental And not even that, you also got Indiana Jones 5 The Mario Movie The Little Mermaid Hunger Games Transformers Five Nights At Freddy’s Haunted Mansion The like what 543rd Saw Movie? And the only films I can cut some slack for are Across The Spider-Verse Barbie (mainly of just the cultural hype as a part of that argument) Wonka (yeah, I’m basic, sue me) Mission Impossible And yeah, my list is pretty small, and is pretty basic, but who cares? Plus, he’s also talking about THIS YEAR, 2023!!! In 1999, that point would, frankly, suck, BUT IT’S 2023!! He’s not taking about 30 year (or close to) old films. He’s not pointing at films like The Exorcist, pointing at films like The Exorcist: Believer. Every genre has at least one amazing movie, so it’s not that he’s not watching enough films or films in a specific genre, it’s just that this year has sucked for all television and film, both for the studios and the public.

@homeland1128 6 ай бұрын

@@davidginn6551 basic=bad? yea whatever floats your boat g, I'm criticizing the way that's the only genres he watched, i want em to watch more genres, like have u even ever watch docus? Or even know a genre called experimental exist? lmao good try tho but do better