Archive for October, 2006

The Story So Far

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Welcome to Coffee and Celluloid, a blog dedicated to the fine craft of filmmaking from the point of view of a film school student. I realize I just jumped into the action, so it’s about time for a recap of the story so far.
I’m a first year in film school — one of thirty. Though [...]

One Friday the 13th to Rule Them All

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Or at least in the past 476 years. All of the digits in today’s date add up to 13.
(1+0)+(1+3)+(2+0+0+6)=13
“The phenomenon hasn’t happened in 476 years, said Heinrich Hemme, a physicist at Germany’s University of Aachen who crunched the numbers to find that the double-whammy last occurred Jan. 13, 1520.”
What does this have to do with [...]

Be Brilliant - No Previous Experience Required

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

The Bard scores one point today as Discovery.com reports:
A computational fingerprint that uniquely characterizes William Shakespeare’s writing style is helping dispel any lingering doubts that he penned his own plays.
The method could serve as a literary device to analyze not only plays attributed to Shakespeare but anonymous or controversial writings by other authors.
Discovery.com >> Analysis: [...]

Revision in Technicolor

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

I tried googling the script revision colors but couldn’t quite find a site that had them all listed. So here they are, all eight colors, some with names you’d think they pulled from a Crayola box. And remember, this is mainly for production, after the script is locked and changes are made. White away when [...]