Recently Chet and I have been talking about something more we could do to help teachers and users of our site to improve their films and their entertainment programs within their schools. Strangely enough, one of the biggest issues we face is that teacher’s schedules are so tight that they have very limited time to…
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One of the best ways to ensure a successful program is to first have a teacher who is excited to be teaching film. I would take a teacher full of passion over one with experience seven days a week and twice on Sunday. That passion drives the teacher to dig deeper and work harder than…
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If you’ve been alive on the planet for more than 10 years and you don’t know who Gerald R. Molen is, odds are you have seen some of his movies. He is the producer behind Jurassic Park, Hook, The Color Purple, Schindler’s List, Minority Report and a slew of others. He produced over 15 Steven Spielberg…
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A few years ago we were contacted by Sasha Sibley, the youngest person to join Sneak On The Lot to date. If my memory is correct, he was eleven years-old when he joined. He wanted to make feature films and when he let us in to see the scope of his intended vision for his films,…
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In our blog posts we try to give our readers a little bit of everything. We like to showcase various students who have made an impact with their freshly learned filmmaking skills. We like to inform people of various websites they can use in their classrooms or even just a simple technique students can do…
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By drawing on the professional connections of Sneak On The Lot, two 17 year old seniors at Middleton High School fulfilled their lifelong dream of writing, producing and directing a feature film before they graduated. Although they brazenly disregarded the first piece of advice their filmmaking mentors gave them – “Don’t try to make a feature…
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In high school, Steve Christiansen worked at a slow corner video store, watching movies and dreaming of what it would be like to be a part of the creative filmmaking process. As he sat doodling, he thought to himself, “How can I find a way to make a living telling stories and making art?” He…
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It’s Here! Our Shiny New Site! We have been on a thrilling journey these last 15 years! When we first started Sneak On The Lot we began under a different name, Independent Student Media… or ISM. It was created in the tragic wake of the Columbine shootings as a way for students to express themselves…
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“Report Card”, the summer workshop for 2017, has been our all around, most successful workshop to date. We are constantly refining our process for these workshops and this one simply had the best of everything. The right script, the right actors, the right crew members… all of it! We are super proud of our teachers…
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This was an older article about the Sneak On The Lot film school workshop that came out in the Hollywood Reporter. But in our attempt to pull together all our archive of material, we thought you might enjoy a little lite reading. by David E. Williams September 21-23, 2001 Ahead Of The Class Recognizing that there…
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