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Category: For Filmmakers

A blog full of all my tips, tricks, advice and anecdotes that might just help you on your next historical production

WARNING! The danger of reading historic art

Blog For FilmmakersMay 19, 2022May 19, 2022

Tonsured monks in Henry VIII’s bedroom? Historic art is a great resource for productions, but interpretation is key.

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Can we lie about history?

For FilmmakersJuly 5, 2021July 5, 2021

Are the makers of period drama allowed to fib about history? To what extent? And under what circumstances?

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The Golden Rule of Historical Authenticity

For FilmmakersJuly 2, 2021July 3, 2021

Is there a Golden Rule of historical authenticity in filmmaking? Well, this is mine. I recently received perhaps the greatest text message of my life. It was from a client producer on an active production, and it read: “Need you on 11 May on location if avail to advise on how heretics might have been […]

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