Welcome to EMMA’S CORNER
Hi there, this is Emma Donoghue. I’ve found the process of making ROOM into a movie so interesting, I wanted to share some highlights from the journey. I’m going to be blogging twice a week (Tuesdays...
View ArticleWhy ROOM is a film by LennyAbrahamson
Four and a half years ago, just months after my novel was published, I got this letter from a filmmaker called Lenny Abrahamson. ‘ROOM imagines an extreme case to illuminate universal truths about the...
View ArticleBeing a Newbie on Set
I’ve been going to the cinema since the age of three. (The re-release of THE SOUND OF MUSIC.) Also I was an extra on a terrible thriller when I was about fourteen, but all that taught me was that a...
View ArticleMaking ROOM, Part I: Development
Every subculture has its own jargon, supposedly devised to allow rapid communication between its members (‘A semiotic analysis of post-post-modernist fiction? Right, gotcha.’) But outsiders can’t help...
View ArticleMaking ROOM, Part II: Production
When production (actually shooting the film) starts, the jargon gets even more unguessable, but because much of it is specific to a given department – sound recording, or make-up, or lighting – I...
View ArticleMaking ROOM, Part III: Post-Production
When your film is in the can (not literally, anymore, of course – more like on the hard drive), it’s time for the screenwriter to get even further out of the way. Of course I was one of the people...
View ArticleThe Craft of Film Acting
My only experience of acting is in theatre, and only at the school/university level. But I think theatre professionals would probably agree with the following description of the job, at least for...
View ArticleWhat was Unusual About Making ROOM
Even though I went into adapting ROOM for the screen in an excited spirit, in the back of my mind I couldn’t help thinking: Watch out for the knife in the back. Just about every film or TV show I’ve...
View ArticleMy Five Favorite Moments From Making ROOM
(5.) My first visit. The moment I first stepped onto the sound stage and saw the set for Room itself: a wooden shed, but with big square ‘blacks’ (to vary the light through the skylight) angled above...
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