Editing can be tedious, but it doesn’t have to be slow. If your New Year’s Resolution is to improve your editing skills, learning your software’s keyboard shortcuts for repetitive tasks will allow you finish projects faster with less clicking, searching…
A friend recently asked for advice about recording her own voice overs (VO’s) at home, and although I get asked frequently about home studio equipment and setups I hadn’t yet written on the subject. Although she was asking about corporate…
Having recently discussed sound in film, I thought this would make a good followup. Check out this article from CreateDigitalMusic.com about NASA’s recently released sound library: The quality of some of these sounds is questionable – they all…
“Sound is 50 percent of the moviegoing experience.” –George Lucas “The truth is, for me, it’s obvious that 70, 80 percent of a movie is sound.” –Danny Boyle “Sound is fifty percent of a film, at least. In some scenes…
I’m not sure if it’s the collaborative nature of filmmaking or my tendency to hang out in coffee shops, but as a filmmaker I often find myself surrounded by other artists. I’ve enjoyed collaborating with musicians, actors, painters, and makeup…
I wish this existed when I was a poor college student without a DSLR or a proper cinema camera. It’s best to experiment in the field with a real camera whenever possible, but if you’re having trouble visualizing the effects…
Great film, and indeed all great art, needs a venue to reach the public in a meaningful way. When a community gathers together to support a venue for sharing art, it says a lot about that community. It says the…
I’ve reorganized the site a little bit today, and added some more filmmaking freebies to accompany the templates and other film resources. I create textures compulsively, because I always prefer to use my own material whenever possible. Now I’m sharing…
Or: How I Learned to Read the Manual, and Free up 294 GB on my Hard Drive…. I go back to the days of Premiere 7 (as in ‘regular’ 7… before CS 1 came out), so for years my Premiere…
