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Money Shot

Money Shot

Money Shot In this week’s Friday Fundas I chose to discuss an interesting part in a movie or something the producers look for in a script. This is called Money shot or a Payoff shot. Originally the money shot was a term referred to the shots for which maximum money was spent. This term was
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Friday Fundas: Types of Shots in movies

Friday Fundas: Types of Shots in movies Based on the distance of the camera from the object the types of shots can be broadly classified into the following categories Close up / Extreme Close up Shot (CU/ECU) Medium Close up Shot (MCU) Medium Shot (MS) Medium Long Shot (MLS) Long Shot (LS) Extreme Long Shot (ELS)
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Epistolary Movies

Epistolary Movies – The term is based epistolary novels. This refers to a particular style of writing the screenplay. In this style the story is narrated as a series of letters or diary entries. In the modern day this could be a series of text, audio or video blogs. Writers used this technique mainly to
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Friday Fundas: Inspiration for Avatar

In the 2009 hollywood blockbuster Avatar the Na’vi’s the inhabitants of Pandora had a blue body, tall, with four fingers in each of their hand. In a 2007 interview with Time magazine, James Cameron  said “The name Avatar is an incarnation of one of the Hindu gods taking a flesh form. In this film what that
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