by Lunacy Staff | Jan 14, 2020 | Featured, Interviews
About Tamar Halpern Tamar Halpern is a writer and director with 9 feature films behind her — all low-budget and produced for less than $1.2 million. She graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts with an MFA in 1998, the same year she started filming what would...
by Harris McCabe | Oct 8, 2019 | Instructional
Wide establishing shot… Medium two-shot… OTS single… Reverse… Reverse… Reverse… Punch in for a dramatic close-up… Sound familiar? It’s how most film and television scenes are shot and edited. Sure, it’s a little boring, but it works. And if you have talented actors...
by Lunacy Staff | Feb 7, 2019 | Essay
Lunacy Productions’ Rust Creek is one of the best reviewed films of the new year, and we couldn’t be more proud of the great work from our talented director, Jen McGowan. But before we say goodbye to 2018, we thought it might be fun to take a look back at...
by Harris McCabe | Jun 19, 2018 | Five For Filming, Greatest Hits
There are three directions you can move your camera: along the horizontal x-axis (pans and dollies), the vertical y-axis (tilts and booms), and the z-axis (moving forward or back). Used separately or in conjunction, these movements can serve utilitarian purposes, such...
by Vincent Grashaw | Apr 17, 2018 | Interviews
Lunacy Productions is proud to present the powerful and harrowing drama AND THEN I GO, available on digital platforms everywhere! iTunes / Google Play / FandangoNow / Amazon Starring Melanie Lynskey, Justin Long, and newcomers Arman Darbo and Sawyer Barth, And Then I...
