“When you’re trying to come up with a character, I look at it a little more technically. What’s the age? So she’s maybe a teenager. Okay, where’s she from? Okay, just to make it easy, put her in the south, maybe she’s a little bit...
“When you go out to play, you really want to put the audience at ease. You want to make sure that they’re okay. So when you’re, when you kind of reverse it and think, oh my God, they’re all looking at me and what am I going to do? Your goal is...
In the final installment of his Screen Perspectives podcast conversation, Steve Cuden distills decades of experience into a single guiding principle: stories work because they create catharsis. Catharsis, Cuden explains, is an emotional purging that rewards the...
“On Dune Part 1 We were designing sound as the movie was shot and shot number 875 was a shot of a worm breaching in the sand. Visual effects had timed it out as 21 seconds. So Denis said make some sound for this because it’s pretty dead with this...
In a Screen Perspectives interview, Steve Cuden offers a precise breakdown of how story structure functions across film, television, and musical theater—and why momentum is essential in all three. According to Cuden, screen storytelling must always move forward. Film...
