Girl Who Has Given Up 100,000,000,000 Times

YN: hey Wed, how do you ask a glass of water what it's doing?

Wednesday: a glass of water is an inanimate object and is therefore incapable of having a thought process or understanding of basic language

YN:

YN: water you doing?

Cinematography by: Dan Laustsen The Shape of Water (2017)* Directed by Guillermo del Toro

“The way I’m shooting movies, it’s 1:1. What you’re shooting on the set is exactly how it’s going to look in the movie. When we did the color-correction, the DI, for this movie, Guillermo said, “I don’t want to make a DI, because I think I like exactly how it looks.” We spent some time on the set to do the right colors, and I think that’s very, very important for me, to shoot the movie exactly as it should look. So when we’re doing the DI, I’m just making a corner a little bit darker or a window a little bit brighter, but we’re not changing the color. So when you see framegrabs from the sets the day we shot it and you see the final movie, it’s exactly the same; we’re not changing colors at all.” — Dan Laustsen on the gap between what’s captured in-camera and the final image

*Academy Award nominee for Best Cinematography in 2018

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Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.