Action director, Screen-Fighting, action direction, fight choreography, stunt coordination

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(Annoying) Screen-fighting Trends

I haven’t actually done a study of recent action movies, but in my unscientific observations, I’ve found two growing (and annoying) trends in action direction in the past few years:

Shaky-Camera Syndrome
Repetitive Martial Arts Expertise

Shaky-Camera Syndrome: This trend is fast becoming the bane of my existence. All too often, directors and actions directors are choosing [...]

Screen-Fighting, action direction, editing, fight choreography, stunt coordination

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Watchmen Have Style … That is, One Fighting Style

I just watched Watchmen and I’m glad to see that director Zack Snyder and the stunt crew went with a style that allowed the audience to actually see the action (i.e. not the epilepsy-inducing, shaky-camera fight scenes of The Dark Knight or The Bourne Ultimatum.)
Snyder also didn’t overplay the slow-motion editing too much as he [...]

Acting, Producing, Screen-Fighting, Writing, action direction, fight choreography, short movies, stunt coordination

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The Pain of Pretend Fighting

I got hit by a truck.
At least that’s how I feel. My neck is stiff as a rod. My back is sore. My triceps burn like fire. My hamstrings have pulled taunt, like paino wire. And I have welts everywhere — two on my left arm, one on my right, and another on my right [...]

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