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Education

Essays, Articles and Brain-dumps examining cinematic education in the 21st century as well as projects designed for teaching cinema concepts.

Bad Medicine: Screenwriting courses that might be bad for you
A critical look at the failings and problems of a university screenwriting course

Holistic Thinking - Integrated Making
A manifesto for educating future creators of cinema and the institutions that teach them.

Motion Sketches
Online video documentary series examining a range of perspectives on cinema production and featuring exclusive interviews with succesful writers, diretcors, actors and producers from Australia and Internationally.

Leading or Following - Reconsidering Film School
Treatise on the nature of film schools and the paradigms that define them.

Insight: cinema process and practice
Video documentary featuring exclusive interviews with actor Miranda Otto, feature film and TV director Samantha Lang and multi-award winning sound designer Annie Breslin

Film School Technology
Interview with MovieMaker Magazine

Colour Grading - concepts and paradigms
Making colour grading a more controlled creative process for students

Learning Filmmaking Backwards
Cinematic production is traditionally a linear progressive process; but should we learn it the same way?

Creation, re-Creation and Media Education
Is the colour Red creative? It is if you use it creatively.

Film education and the culture of editors
Is Final Cut Pro to blame for mediocrity?

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