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DIY Filmmaking

Drawing on way too many years in film school (and way too long days working in the industry), The DIY Filmmaking World and thesubstream.com's Film Lab video series educate, illustrate and elucidate on the basic fundamentals of filmmaking art and technique, from the technical to the mystical.

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Jul 9, 2010

On July 24th, producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald will open their inboxes to the YouTube filmmakers for their groundbreaking, or at least rule-breaking documentary "Life in a Day". Usi ...

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Jul 1, 2010

ON LOCATION #3 - The misfits, the long-hairs, the toughguys with the tough job. They hold flags, they hold scrims, they hold your life in their hands... come spend a few minutes on the grip/electric t ...

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Jun 24, 2010

The idea that you could buy a cellphone sized video camera that shoots 720p for a hundred bucks would literally seem like nonsense to me five or six years ago, as I sat trying to get a shot worth look ...

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Jun 24, 2010

Cyrus comes out tomorrow, having wowed people at Sundance and at SXSW where the directors, the Duplass brothers, had earlier success with their mumblecore feature The Puffy Chair. It's very funny, and ...

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Jun 22, 2010

Unless in the script it says "Cliche." It is probably best to avoid them. According moviecliches.com, many cliches go unnoticed but to make some of these easy to do cliches more real life focused, mig ...

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Jun 22, 2010

According to Company Town, the upcoming Tom Cruise flick, "Knight and Day" is expected to have less than stellar numbers at the box office. In order to make sure that does not happen, FOX issued sneak ...

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Jun 22, 2010

I have been doing a lot of research recently and I have been finding that color schemes are playing an increasingly more important role in films. "Max Payne", for instance, was a film that really took ...

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Jun 21, 2010

Some Australian cats are pre-selling all 135k frames of their theoretical frames for their theoretical torrent-distributed thriller about underground train tunnels for a buck each. AND! One lucky fram ...

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Jun 21, 2010

So the Canon 5d mkII, iirc, can shoot video that looks like 35mm film, due to its huge sensor and ability to use all of the Canon still lenses. The Canon XH-A1 can't do that. The Casio Exilim ex-f1 ca ...