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- Product Spotlight: Creativity, Writing, and Directing
- The Biz Interview: Tammy Gillis
- Movie Contest: Green Room
| | PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: | | Creativity, Writing, and Directing
(as chosen by Tammy Gillis) Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes  In this wildly candid and compulsively readable book, Hollywood's most powerful woman, the force behind the top-rated dramas Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder, reveals how saying "YES" changed her life — and how it can change yours too. Shonda Rhimes will be the first to admit she didn't expect to be famous. But three hit television shows made her a household name. Her iconic characters — Meredith Grey, Cristina Yang, Olivia Pope, Annalise Keating — live boldly and speak their minds. So who would suspect that Shonda Rhimes is an introvert? That she hired a publicist so she could avoid public appearances? That she hugged walls at splashy parties and suffered panic attacks before media interviews so severe she remembered nothing afterward? Before her Year of Yes, Shonda Rhimes was an expert at declining invitations others would leap to accept. With three children at home and the success of her company ShondaLand, it was easy to say that she was simply too busy. But in truth, she was also afraid. Afraid of cocktail party faux pas like chucking a chicken bone across a room; petrified of live television appearances where Shonda Rhimes could trip and fall and bleed out right there in front of a live studio audience; terrified of the difficult conversations that came so easily to her characters on-screen. In the before, Shonda's introvert life revolved around burying herself in work, snuggling her children, and comforting herself with food. The Year of Yes is the result of her oldest sister muttering something that was both a wake up and a call to arms: You never say yes to anything. "And by that she meant I never accept any invitations," Rhimes says. "I never go anywhere. I never do anything. All I did was go to work and come home. And she was right. My life had gotten really small." Then Shonda, the youngest of six children from a supremely competitive family, knew she had to embrace the challenge: for one year, "I was going to say YES to all the things that scared me, that made me nervous, that freaked me out, that made me think I'm going to look foolish doing it. Anything that took me out of my comfort zone I was going to do it, if asked to do it." This poignant, intimate, and hilarious memoir explores Shonda's life before her Year of Yes — from her nerdy, book-loving childhood creating imaginary friends to her devotion to creating television characters who reflected the world she saw around her. And it chronicles her life after her Year of Yes had begun — when Shonda forced herself out of the house and onto the stage, appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and giving the Dartmouth Commencement speech; when she learned to say "YES" to her health (revealing that she lost 127 pounds, during and after the Year of Yes), "YES" to play and she stepped out of the shadows and into the sun; when she learned to explore, applaud, and love her truest self. YES. Our Price: $32.99 Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, 2nd Edition by Bethany Rooney and Mary Lou Belli  Move over, movies: the freshest storytelling today is on television, where the multi-episodic format is used for rich character development and innovative story arcs. Directors Tell the Story, Second Edition offers rare insight and advice straight from two A-list television directors whose credits include NCIS, NCIS New Orleans, Nashville, Criminal Minds and many more. Here, in one volume, learn everything you need to know to become an excellent director, not merely a good one. Covering everything through prep, shoot, and post, the authors offer practical instruction on how to craft a creative vision, translate a script into a visual story, establish and maintain the look and feel of a television show or film, lead the cast and crew, keep a complex operation running on time and on budget, and effectively oversee editing and post-production. Directors Tell the Story provides behind-the-scenes access to the secrets of successful directors, as well as exercises that use original scripted material. This newly updated edition features:
- All-new "From the Experts" sections with insider info known only to working professionals
- Profiles of top film and TV luminaries with advice and tips
- Additional "How I Got My First Job" stories from directors currently in the trenches
- Useful instruction to help you put directing techniques into practice
- A companion website featuring directing tutorials and video interviews with the authors Our Price: $44.25 Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman  No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. The two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, William Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums: on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films; into the plush offices of Hollywood producers; into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman; and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. Subtitled A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting, you get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Our Price: $24.95 | | THE BIZ INTERVIEW: | | Tammy Gillis  With her hot streak of well-received performances on highly-rated projects, you'd be hard-pressed not to recognize Tammy Gillis. With the audience favourite Unleashing Mr. Darcy and the gritty Signed, Sealed and Delivered movies for Hallmark serving as just a few of her recent highlights, Tammy Gillis is continuing her busy ways with the feature film, Menorca, and has also added directing to her repertoire with the recently released web series, The Support Group. Just ahead of a special screening of The Support Group at the Women in Film & TV/Cineworks Showcase on April 27th, we talked to Tammy Gillis about her success and creative influences. Read the interview here! | | MOVIE CONTEST: | | Green Room  BizBooks.net is offering the chance to attend the advance screening of Green Room in Vancouver. A young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence. From writer/director Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin) and starring Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin, and Imogen Poots. In theatres April 29th, 2016. Full details here! |
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