Letters About The Creative Process

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026 / Your Questions, Answered

A Q&A session with Third Something Readers - I answer questions about filmmaking and my creative process.

• 8 minute read

025 / The Threshold Of Awareness

This diagram helps me tell visual stories that make the audience both think and feel. Here’s how to use it.

• 2 minute read

023 / A Vague Haze of Malaise

I’ve been feeling depressed lately and I wonder if it’s connected to how much time I make for myself to create.

• 2 minute read

022 / Looking and Seeing

Here’s a useful exercise in using drawing as a form of meditation and awareness. Try it out!

• 3 minute read

021 / My Storyboarding Process

A step-by-step look at my previsualisation process for making a video for The New York Times.

• 4 minute read

019 / Five Miscellaneous Things

There’s a lot in this one! Poetry, filmmaking, graphic novels and visual storytelling - take your pick!

• 6 minute read

018 / Planned Improv

Notes on the balance between preparation and improv in the creative process, while shooting a film for The New York Times.

• 4 minute read

017 / Practicing Scales

Some practical advice on how filmmakers can build a daily practice habit that improves their craft.

• 6 minute read

012 / Musical Interval

Playing around with loops and ossilations, I discover whale music inside a 95-year-old song.

• 3 minute read

010 / Building A Body Of Work

You’re not just publishing into a never ending stream, you’re building a library of work

• 3 minute read

005 / The Screenplay Problem

The problem with screenwriting as a creative pursuit, and three ideas to fix it.

• 3 minute read

004 / It's Telling You What It Wants To Be

Thoughts on the creative process and letting the work tell you what it wants to be.

• 3 minute read

002 / Trust The Process

Thoughts on patience and the creative process on months-long projects.

• 2 minute read