Kids and Animals, Oh My: Working with Child Actors and Animals
by Jack Anderson Working with Animals You’ll be reading the script, and you will notice pretty quickly whether your
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Who’s Driving the Bus? | The Filmmaker as Inventor
by Dean Goldberg Final Cut X and the Filmmaker When Apple introduced Final Cut X (now how do you
How ‘Not’ to Get Hired… And Why You Should “Never Say No.”
by Jack Anderson Never Say No to the Director’s Ideas You’ve got a chance at a job and you’re
The Ins and Outs of Short Ends
by Scott Spears So you’ve scraped together a few extra dollars to shoot film, but you’re still a bit
Filmmaking Back in the Day vs. Today’s Technology
By David Worth Don’t Take Today’s Technology for Granted Hopefully you will never take the amazing technology that you
The Lure of the Dark Side: 5 Ways to Send Characters Down the Wrong Path
by Pamela Jaye Smith Your audience wants to find out how people and things go bad. Here are some
NightLights: A Feature Shot on RED MX, Panasonic AF100 and DSLRs
by William Donaruma and John Klein About NightLights NightLights is an independent, Chicago-based film production, which depicts the poigniant
After Casting: How to be effective, and build trust and respect
by Peter Kiwitt While it has been said that 80% of performance is casting, the last 20% is still
5 Big Distribution Myths: What Gets and What Doesn’t Get Distribution?
by Stacey Parks Myth #1: Build It, and They Will Come There are a lot of myths about what
An Itemized Audio/Video Production List: Have All Your Angles Covered
by Bryant Falk So there I was off to Vegas as a hired gun to help fix and create
On-the-Fly Solutions on Location (and Why Pre-Production Matters)
by Myrl Schreibman The Reality of Budgets and Schedules The reality in the professional film directing world in which
Getting Financing for Your Independent Film
by Christina DeHaven There are many different ways to fund a film, and not necessarily out of your own