Wes Anderson - Red & Yellow Supercut

This nice lil supercut by Rishi Kaneria shows off Wes Anderson's love of red and yellow, a couple of warm, striking and evocative colours that are strongly prevalent throughout his work. By splicing together clips from the likes of The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, and Fantastic Mr Fox Rishi's work delineates Wes Anderson's clear signature style - you always know a Wes Anderson movie when you're watching one, and it's no surprise Grand Budapest Hotel took away four Oscars last week.

Red & Yellow: A Wes Anderson Supercut from Rishi Kaneria on Vimeo.

Sticking to a limited palette is a great way of maintaining consistency throughout a visual story, and as the above short demonstrates, a good way to developing a trademark aesthetic.

Screenplays

Below I've collated a few links to great screenplays, both film and TV. The links are mainly pilfered from other, far better, filmmaking resources like the fantastic Cinephilia and Beyond, as well as the unstoppable Go Into the Story, and the UK's own BBC Writers Room. The more screenplays you read, the easier it becomes to write them... or so I'm told.

Glen Garry Glen Ross - David Mamet

Calvary - John Michael McDonagh

People Just Do Nothing - Steve Stamp

Fargo (film) - Joel & Ethan Coen

Fargo (TV series) - Noah Hawley

I've just finished watching Fargo the TV series, a new benchmark against which we'll measure all other spinoffs! Noah Hawley's black comedy had enough little nods to the Coen Brothers' original film - that subplot on the fate of Steve Buscemi's buried million was inspired - but did its own thing, with it's own deeply flawed yet lovable characters and quirky ideas. There's an online PDF of the first episode that's a perfect example of how a pilot can deftly introduce all your main characters, while keeping the plot moving - things just keep happening! - and using the setting to its full potential. The dialogue is sublime and the tone, that straight-faced gallows humour, is to die for.

Hearing Tarantino supercut

Jacob T. Swinney's edited this awesome supercut of the sounds of Tarantino. 'Hearing Tarantino' demonstrates the power of the right sound in the right place, from the shhhink of a samurai sword and the sppplatter of blood, to the slurrrp of a tasty beverage and the sssizzle of a cigarette drag, audio embeds tension, gives action impact and can really make a scene stand out.

Hearing Tarantino from Jacob T. Swinney on Vimeo.