Working with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey In 1965 I was working for an animation studio in Borehamwood, England making little animation projects for the BBC and the military. I saw an article in the London Sunday Times…

A Brief History of Camera Movement In the Beginning… Since the earliest days of cinema there have been camera conventions, which supposedly could never be broken. Originally it was thought that all actors should be shot from head to toe…

9 Things to Consider when Scouting a Movie Location Apart from the actors, everything else in the frame of your movies is a set, prop, or a location, or sometimes even a Visual Effect (virtual background). Now a set (or…

How to Blow up a Death Star I’ve worked on a lot of high profile films in a career that I have been blessed with, but nothing seems to get more people’s attention than when I tell them… I blew…