Olaf de Fleur

Video Lesson

Using Metaphors to Extract Ideas

Using Metaphors is a powerful way to extract your ideas.

Procrastination

Overwhelm: The Land of Indecision

"I don't like living here, even though everyone is very polite and nice, nothing happens in this village of no decisions."

Video Lesson

A Quick Edit Lesson

In this post, I'm sharing a quick video on an piece of edit I did for a documentary I'm working on. Here, I use from 'the inside out' technique. I start close, and gradually...

Skillshare

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Writing Tools

SPLITTING THE ATOM: Dicipline Your Creative Senses

It is unnecessary to fall prey to this predictable dilemma. Suddenly feeling like you cannot create, has nothing to do with your talent or your ability, it is a foreseeable sequencing of irrational, and impersonal thoughts welded together by unearned authority over your mood and talent.

The Creative Path

Why Don't You Write A Play?

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. He wrote one of my favorite poems about vanity.

The Creative Path

The Courtroom of Your Creativity

When we want to produce a creative piece of art, a story, a film, it's easy to talk ourselves out of it.

Traveling Soul

Crocodiles in India

The ground inside the home was made out of uneven stacks of mud. The family that had invited me in didn’t have anything but offered me what they had. The offering was some kind of food, but it was impossible to know what it was made out of.

Writing

The Power of Save The Cat, the Book that Demystifyed Screenwriting

Blake gave us all a tool. Like the child in H.C. Andersen's story, Blake pointed to the Emperor to tell us that he didn't need to act all that fancy. Save the Cat didn't only demystify scriptwriting, it allowed us to see with childlike eyes so we could all go deeper into the magic world.

Financing

Applications for Documentary Projects open in October - Catapult Film Fund

The Catapult Research Grant is the newest expansion of Catapult Film Fund’s on going commitment to support nonfiction films and filmmakers.

Writing Blog

The Train, The Cargo

I have a sound recorder in my hand and I’m pointing it into empty space close to a train track. This space will be filled with thunder within a few moments. I maintain my posture like a statue waiting to be woken up. Noise creeps up from a horizon,

Creative Process

Being too self-conscious & Alan Alda

This obstacle of being self-concious serves an obvious purpose, it's intention is to stop you from putting out bad stuff into the world. This is of course a layered obstacle, it is a realm of elements, because we are not talking about perfectionism.

Writing Blog

Write Monster See Kill

Let's pretend. You're a great writer. Pretend for 1 minute. Actually sit down, time it. Pretend to be the best writer in the world. (method) Act it. If anything stops you from doing this, it'll show it's face, and you'll

Filmmaking

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Filmmaking

Buy 12 hours of my Filmmaking Seminars

For the past month, I've been doing four sessions each Saturday with students. I listen, give you tasks on projects you're working on, give you advice and feedback. Here, you can purchase a copy of each of the 4 webinars. * If you buy one seminar (3

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