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Forum Thread: How to Make a Rain Machine for Your Film
Your film needs production value, something that will make the cinematography more exciting. This DIY tutorial will show you exactly how to get rain in your film with this rain machine.
Forum Thread: A Cheap DIY Solution for a Lighting/Studio Grid (With Reference Video)
Hey Everyone, For the longest time I struggled with having a backlight for my tutorials due to lack of room. I couldn't put a backlight in because the stand would always be revealed. I finally came up with a cheep solution.
Forum Thread: DIY Snowman Ornament
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Forum Thread: How to Draw Doraemon Step by Step | Doraemon Easy Drawing for Children
? In this video, you will learn How To Draw Doraemon, Doraemon Colouring Games, Doraemon sketch games Step By Step..... Learn to Doraemon drawing games, Doraemon painting, Doraemon colouring book, Doraemon painting Easy drawing anime characters for children. Drawn simply and without unnecessary words, everything is clear even for beginners.
Forum Thread: Episode One - the Filmmakers Guide
This is Episode One of our Filmmakers Guide we've been working on for simple hacks for creating short films and skits. This is our first video to show you just how simple it can be to overcome writers block and create short films or skits over a variety of genres. Hope you can take something from it and we'd love to see some of your results using our techniques.
Forum Thread: Sony Vegas Pro 13 Deleted Effects in Movie
Hey, so I'm editing a video for my friend (it's a First Person Shooter with guns (toy guns) explosions and all that) and I'm days into editing it and then I notice that all of the muzzle flashes have disappeared. I know they were there before because I've been editing them for days. I've saved multiple times and closed the program multiple times. Is there any way possible to recover a previous save or make them re-appear? I've ctrl Z as far as I could and it only took me to the beginning of w...
Forum Thread: How to Start Filmmaking, Film Production Resources, Best Filmmaking Equipment, Information & Advice
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Forum Thread: DIY $10 Teleprompter
Hey guys! New to the forum here but have found quite a few interesting and helpful articles here in the past. I am sharing this video I made with you that shows how to build a teleprompter for less than 10 dollars. Hope you enjoy it.
Forum Thread: Can Anyone Help Me Figure Out Which Camera to Invest In?
I Have a Budget of Roughly 5000euros and I Need a Camera That Shoots in Very Low Light, Ideally 4k but Not the blackmagic4k as the Low Light Capabilities Are Horrible.
Forum Thread: DSLR Camera Slider
Heya everyone, I am back with my first Camera Gear Review: 4Ft Camera Slider
Forum Thread: TrueReelzTV - E01 (LiveShow)
Heya, The first episode of our new live streaming show, TrueReelzTV, is now online!
New Horror Short: Why Are You Doing This
My latest Horror Comedy Short is online! Enjoy and please share if you like! Video: .
Forum Thread: Element 3D Plug-in - Aircraft Animation
Hey again! Here is another tutorial showing some of the cool features of Video Copilots plug-in Element 3D.
Forum Thread: DIY Frozen Action Tutorial
Using Adobe After Effects, Element 3D (Video Copilot plug-in), and a stabilization rig, I go over how to create a frozen action sequence.
The Film Lab: Chroma Keying in Final Cut Pro
Video: . What is Chroma Keying?.
Forum Thread: RetroBouchon - Promo for Horror Short Film
Hello people, The Promo video for our horror short film, RetroBouchon, which is currently in production is now online!
Forum Thread: The Digital Green Project Wants to GREEN LIGHT Your Film
The Going Green Film Festival has launched the Digital Green Project; an innovate program created to stimulate green-produced digital films.
Movie Marketing: The Sneak Preview
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 previews before the opening weekend. According to the article, Sneak Previews can be risky in the web 2.0 era. If the audiences do not feel that the film is excellent, they will be tweeting away and there goes any hopes FOX might have of a box office hit. I'd like to ask what you guys think of t...
Forum Thread: Man vs Train (Don't Try This at Home)
New video online: Man vs Train http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkPG1H2uOk
Forum Thread: New Hip-Hop Music Video Shot on 5D
Heya Everyone, Just finished another music video for local Cape Town hip-hop duo, Slaai ft Proqnosiz. The track is called "?Rock This Mic?". Shot on a 5D MKii.
New video online: Alone In The Dark
Heya Everyone, I have just uploaded my latest video onto Youtube - This one is called "Alone In The Dark" and is my first attempt at a fight scene…
Forum Thread: Car Crash Tutorial (After Effects)
Heya!! I am back with another After Effects tutorial - this time I show you guys and girls how to do a car crash with After Effects ;) Hope you all enjoy - please share and feel free to rate / comment / subscribe.
Forum Thread: Andy Robinson's "Music Bucket" Video Contest
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Forum Thread: Free Sound Effects
Tons of free sound effects to download at the brand new website http://sweetsoundeffects.com/
Forum Thread: Wireless Mic Suggestions?
New to the forums...so asking a couple of questions... I'm working on a project and I strictly want to use wireless mics. What are some great, cheap suggestions? And what equipment is needed?
Forum Thread: Big List of Horror Film Festivals
This is my attempt to make a complete and current list of all the Horror/SciFi Film Festivals and Conventions around the world. Please help me keep this list updated! If you have info, please email me. I've tried only to include festivals who accept submissions from filmmakers. There are many festivals showing already-released films. Such festivals are not listed here.
iMovie on the iPhone: Gamechanger?
Would you like to watch 500,000 vlogs about Justin Bieber? Just wait, kid
Forum Thread: Avoiding Cliches
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, might just be the thing that makes your film just that much better. Take a look.
Forum Thread: Do Colors play a Huge Role in a Great Film
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 a step forward from its predecessor "300." Both films were made in similar fashions and I was really excited to see the color scheme come out perfectly. I believe the scheme was a mix of black, blue, and red but don't quote me on it. I was hoping some of you guys would have some insight into the...
Getting your film made: Scheme #12324
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 frame-owner will be chosen to receive 1% of the back-end of the film? Genius?