Film Courage & From the Michael Wiese Productions Interviews

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Full interviews

The ‘Director’s Director’ Mark W. Travis on Creating Authentic Acting Performances [FULL INTERVIEW]

Story Mastery & The Director’s Journey – Full Interview with Michael Hauge & Mark W. Travis – PART 1

Story Mastery & The Director’s Journey – Full Interview with Michael Hauge & Mark W. Travis – PART 2

Write Your Life and Become a Better Storyteller [FULL INTERVIEW]

General – For Everyone

The Power of Authentic Storytelling

How I Would Have Directed Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant Bear Attack Scene

The Question Everyone in Hollywood is Trying to Answer

The Primary Reasons to Tell a Story

Where People Go Wrong With Their Own Stories

If You Want To Quit Your Day Job, You Have To Be Able to Create Your Own Work

For Directors

What Stops An Actor From Getting Into Character? The beginning of The Interrogation Process.

How A Master Storyteller Keeps the Audience Engaged.

How a Director can Ruin a Movie Without Realizing it

The #1 Job of a Movie Director

The Most Critical Thing A Director Does When Reading A Screenplay

A Movie Director Should Know This As Much As Anything Else

How Does A Director Find the Heart Of A Story?

Should A Director Rewrite the Screenplay?

Biggest Mistake A Director Can Make Before Production

Directing the Perfect Acting Performance

How To Deal With A Blocked Actor On A Movie Set

Creating An Instant Riveting Authentic Acting Performance

One Thing A Director Does Not Want In Their Movie is Acting

Should A Director Take Acting Classes?

Top 3 Acting Performances Every Actor Should Watch

What If An Actor Says Everything Is Fine?

The Primary Reasons to Tell a Story

Why Writers Need to Lie to Get To The Truth.

How To Interrogate A Character

Great Storytellers Know These Two Time-Altering Techniques

For Writers

Where Writers Go Wrong with Story – Events Aren’t the Story

How A Master Storyteller Keeps the Audience Engaged.

The Most Critical Thing A Director Does When Reading A Screenplay

Should A Director Rewrite the Screenplay?

If You Had No Fear, What Story Would You Tell?

The Sequencing of a Story: Where to Start and Finish?

The Primary Reasons to Tell a Story

Why Writers Need to Lie to Get To The Truth.

Where People Go Wrong with Their Own Stories

First Time A Writer Sees Their Characters Come To Life

What Writers Need To Know About Voices

Great Storytellers Know These Two Time-Altering Techniques

For Actors

What Stops An Actor From Getting Into Character? The beginning of The Interrogation Process.

Directing the Perfect Acting Performance

How To Deal with A Blocked Actor On A Movie Set

Creating An Instant Riveting Authentic Acting PerformanceCreating An Instant Riveting Authentic Acting Performance

One Thing A Director Does Not Want In Their Movie is Acting

Should A Director Take Acting Classes?

Top 3 Acting Performances Every Actor Should Watch

What If An Actor Says Everything Is Fine?

From Michael Wiese Productions

Mark’s mini Master Class

MEET MARK W. TRAVIS

THE TRAVIS TECHNIQUE

MEET YOUR CHARACTERS

WHAT IS THE INTERROGATION PROCESS?

HOW DOES THE INTERROGATION PROCESS WORK?

THE CASTING PROCESS

FORGET ABOUT GETTING THE JOB

ERASE THE TITLES

CRITICISM NOT ALLOWED

THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME

THE ERROR OF ASSUMPTION

COLLABORATION

COVID AND THE FUTURE OF STORYTELLING

FULL CLASS on THE FUTURE OF STORY (need to be logged in)

Locations

Honolulu, Hawaii
Los Angeles, California
Prague, Czech Republic
Cologne, Germany
Auckland, New Zealand

Email Us

elsha@tifi.us

mark@tifi.us