Pictured above: Photo by Siri Louis, Director of Photography, Video Creator. Follow Siri on IG at instagram.com/siri_ous. PRE-PRODUCTION Crew Your Video Shoot in 3 Steps Written By Richard Tiland What if you are planning for the production of lots of video content? What if you need to make it a dominant part of your media… …
Written By Richard Tiland One of the biggest desires of young filmmakers is to own a professional and successful video production company. Their goal is to establish a media production company so they can make connections, expand their resources (camera, lighting, post suites, and sound gear), make money and develop professional relationships. Here is how… …
ANNOUNCING NEW FILM BUSINESS WORKSHOP ONLINE Michael Goi, ASC Interactive Seminar Online Produced and Hosted Online by StudentFilmmakers.com From Student to The Studio: Learn the Politics of How to Transition from The Student/Indie World to the Professional World of Filmmaking. Meet and talk with Michael Goi, ASC online. Saturday, November 20, 2021 10am to 12… …
Photo taken by Chris Hartung, Filmmaker and Storyteller from Bielefeld, Germany. @chrishartungg | www.chrishartung.com Get Your Student Films Accepted into Festivals Now 10 Things You Can Do to Increase Your Chances of Selection By Bart Weiss I am taking a break from watching films for the Dallas VideoFest’s Docufest+ and thought I should let… …
Photo by Christina @wocintechchat Written by Carole Kirschner Congratulations! You just beat out dozens – if not hundreds – of other applicants, and you’re headed to the first day of your internship. If you follow the simple principles below you’ll have people enthusiastically recommending you for your next internship, or better yet, your first paying… …
Hollywood Bound Start Networking Before Heading West Written By Scott Spears For many of us into filmmaking, who weren’t lucky enough to be born in Southern California, the dream is to move to Los Angeles someday. It could be years or months away, but if you really want to break into the Hollywood film… …
Photo taken by Annie Spratt. www.anniespratt.com | Follow Instagram @anniespratt Written by John Klein Every indie filmmaker knows the difficulties of making a movie. And I would guess that every single one of those filmmakers would tell you that, unless they funded the film out of their own well-lined pockets, raising money for… …
Pictured above: Filmmaker with movie camera BlackMagic URSA MINI 4.6K Canon. | www.theregisti.it | Follow Instagrams @axspax and @samirkharrat Written by Chris Cavallari Mistakes help us to grow. What’s true in our personal development is also true in the development of our films. Making mistakes allows us to see what we did wrong… …
Above photo by Jakob Owens, Filmmaker and Photographer: LA/PHX. | www.directorjakobowens.com | Instagram: @JakobOwens By David Worth It’s simply not realistic to think that just because you’ve graduated from one of the best film schools in America or, for that matter from any of the other outstanding film school elsewhere on the planet, that… …
Pictured: Keaton Nye holding his RED filming a YouYube series. www.keatonnye.com Written By Richard La Motte If you want to be a filmmaker, where do you start? Well, it’s different for all of us, but here are some things to think about. If you want to express an idea, you’re following in the tradition of… …
Written By Mark Simon – Storyboard Artist I’m often asked how I deal with artist block. I don’t really get artistic block because I give myself mini-breaks whenever I can. There are times when I can’t come up with a way to break down a scene. I just don’t see it. Rather than sit… …
Written By Shane Stanley I owe much of my career to music videos. When I was younger, I wanted to be a rock star and even toured our great nation as a drummer in bands who opened for acts like Stone Temple Pilots, The Black Crowes and Lenny Kravitz. But as I grew older and… …
