Today I found this in the art supply store: Of yourse I had to post it on Facebook. And in the comments, me and my friends invented the “Fifty Shades of Grey Artist Edition”, being bought in sizes S, M and L (or B, D, S and M – whatever your preferences are) at art supply stores. And now please excuse …
36 Questions To Get To Know Each Other Better. Or: How To fall In Love With Your Characters
At the moment there is a lot of fuzz on the internet about a social experiment. The question is: can you fall in love with anybody, if you spend time together, answer 36 questions and look into each others eyes for 4 minutes in the end? The answer is: Yes, it works. If you are interested in the scientific facts, …
“We have to go back!” – 10 Years Of LOST
First I thought “WTF?!”, and then “Wow, this is genius!”, and then I watched the end of the third season of LOST again. That one single sentence – “We have to go back!” – twist my mind in such a way, was something I had never seen in a tv series before. Well, after that there was something called “The …
Trailerwatch: 12 MONKEYS – The Series
A video night with friends. We are standing in the kitchen and drawing a timeline of 12 MONKEYS on the kitchen wall, trying to understand the time travel and discovering a plot hole. But my personal highlight of this evening was seeing LA JETEÉ by Chris Marker for the first time. There are not many films that have fascinated me in this …
From Scriptalicious to ineshaeufler.com
In February 2008 my first professional script consulting website went online – Scriptalicious.at. Now, almost 7 years later, things have changed. First, creativity stepped into my life, and I wrote the book TALKING COOKIES. And during the last months more and more companies approached me because they are interested about storytelling and emotional marketing for their products. I am not …
Making A Scene: 11 Performances
The New York Times asked oscar winning cinematographer Janusz Kaminski to direct 11 scenes (or rather: vignettes) with outstanding actresses. The result is really great. Here you can watch the Making Of of the shortfilm project, that was produced for the New York Times film issue. And here is an article about the future development of cinema.
What is a scene?
One of my script consulting teachers, Don Bohlinger, professor at the USC film department, taught me this: “Each scene is either a chase or an escape.” It is not only true for scenes with actual chases in action movies, but for basically every scene with more than one characters in it, and it is even true for scenes with a …
Why Do You Write Strong Female Characters?
Recently I had a discussion with a guy. He thought it was not important to “gender” the German language according to male/female expressions. (Maybe this is hard to comprehend in English, so here is an explanation). Anyways, the guy said it is all about mutual respect. While I consider this important as well, I still think that we should use …
A Childhood Movie
Bastian’s Father: I got a call from your math teacher, yesterday. She says that you were drawing horses in your math book. Bastian: Unicorns. They were unicorns. Bastian’s Father: What? Bastian: Nothing. When “The Neverending Story” hit the movie theaters, I was almost 12 years old. I saw the movie several times and read everything I could get hold of. …
SOURCES 2: Lectures
At the Sources 2 workshop I attended in October, Michael Seeber held a wonderful lecture about keeping your ego out of the mentoring process (at least this was the core of the speech in my opinion). The title was “Yang-Shan Meets San-Cheng Or The Art Of Mentoring”. You can download it here, next to a lot of other interesting lectures …