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by David Daudelin One of my film professors told me that it’s easy to tell what’s wrong in a film. It’s a lot harder to tell what’s right. My constant goal as a student indie filmmaker is to find out how things are being done right and imitate them. In this article, I share a… …
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Jared Myers Student, Cinematographer Eden Prairie, MN networking.studentfilmmakers.com/koolaid330 START IN FILMMAKING I picked up a video camera when I was in 4th grade and started filming short movies throughout junior high mostly with my four younger brothers as the main actors in those movies. In high school, I got involved in an advanced broadcast journalism… …
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Eric Hausmann Composer Portland, Oregon networking.studentfilmmakers.com/profile/hausmann COMPOSING TIPS When I’m composing, no matter the instrument, I’m always thinking about all the instruments together before they’re written. I also like to occasionally throw an unconventional note at it to see what happens. It may not change the structure of a composition, but it can force you… …
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Hande Zerkin Director Izmir, Turkey networking.studentfilmmakers.com/HandeZerkin DIRECTING TIPS * Make a good plan. * Record your videos. * Take notes and journal about your project START IN FILMMAKING I started to make films in university. I graduated Aegean University, Faculty of Communication, Radio TV Cinema Department. When I started, I didn’t have any idea how… …
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Dan Banici Independent Filmmaker Southington, Connecticut GETTING STARTED: About two years ago I was hired to get a company’s image out of the rut, and I made a video in a hurry, talking about paradigm shifts. A viewer criticized the work and his remarks hit hard. It pushed me to hire an actor, then to… …
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Jason Croot Actor, Filmmaker United Kingdom networking.studentfilmmakers.com/magicactor11 GETTING STARTED: I found my love for acting on a TV dating show, this may sound bizarre but true. I believe right from an early age I wanted to be on stage but never really achieved that through lack of confidence. Okay there was the school plays at… …
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by Sherri Sheridan Using bluescreen special FX in your film will make it stand out more if you have a good reason to do it, and a solid story idea behind it to justify the wow shot productions. Bluescreening allows you to play with scale, location, physics, body parts, impossible stunts and character design collages… …
