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The Horrors of Editing a Low Budget Feature and the ONE Tool You need to...
Final Cut Pro (Photo credit: Wikipedia) (if you shoot with DSLR, do multi-camera shoots, or shoot with dual-system sound, you should read this.) Last year, I was hired as the editor for a low-budget...
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$14 DIY Go-Pro or DSLR Time-Lapse Panning head project
Time-lapse videos are just fun to do. With the popularity of Go-Pro and DSLR cameras, we were looking for way to pan 360 degrees, automatically. We found some expensive gadgets, like the Bescor MP101...
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DIY Dolly Track Project
Dolly Track (Photo credit: jaminsky) I love dolly shots and long, extended tracking shots. To me, static shots are boring. Dolly shots really add enormous production value to any project. A beautiful...
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DIY video light project
English: Compact fluorescent light bulb (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Griffin, from Indy Mogul, builds a powerful, DIY video light for $86, using hardware store parts, and eight 100-watt-equivalent compact...
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$8 DIY PVC double-shoulder camera mount project
Points of contact What makes this little DIY camera mount project different, is the fact that it gives you an additional point of contact, like the incredible Edelkrone rig. Adding an additional...
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How to make Fake Blood
It seems like most low-budget films include zombies, gun battles, fights, and generally lots of violence, where somebody gets hurt and bleeds. Well, unless your actor is willing to shed some real...
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$50 DIY Compact Camera Dolly Project
DIY Camera Dolly As a filmmaker, you want to emulate the production value of Hollywood films, including camera movement. Static shots, or simply shots where the camera doesn’t move, are boring. A small...
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DIY Fig Rig Project
DIY Fig Rig Project (Photo credit: Perfectance) The Fig Rig is a unique, inexpensive and extremely useful piece of filmmaking equipment. It allows the filmmaker to hand-hold a camera, monitor, audio...
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DIY Teleprompter project
English: An on a studio camera (Photo credit: Wikipedia) If you have ever worked with an actor that couldn’t remember their lines, (*cough* Most of them *cough*). Then, you probably thought about...
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The Long Take
English: Steven Spielberg at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Film School – The Long Take The long take, or the “oner”, is a filming technique that is used...
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The Rules of Film Noir
Use of “venetian blind” lighting would become a stock-in-trade film noir look (Photo credit: Wikipedia) “Dark rooms with light slicing through venetian blinds, alleys cluttered with garbage, abandoned...
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$20 DIY Matte Box project
Hey guys, a camera matte box is one of those pieces of indie film gear that are very nice to have, but typically priced way out of a low budget indie filmmaker’s budget. So, what does a matte box do,...
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The Horrors of Editing a Low Budget Feature and the ONE Tool You need to...
(if you shoot with DSLR, do multi-camera shoots, or shoot with dual-system sound, you should read this.) Last year, I was hired as the editor for a low-budget feature. I wanted to take a minute to...
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