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.
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...
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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.
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.
Hey everybody, ever wondered how to professionally remove unwanted video noise from your videos? Check out this tutorial on using the Neat Video plugin for After Effects.
This tutorial shows you how to build a helmet rig for DSLRs to achieve a first person look. This is a minimalist rig, its rather simple looking and easy to make. Check out the tutorial for more information and the Schematics of the rig.
Last week at TIFF the buzz surrounding The Master, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman was near-deafening... film fans all across this great city were clamouring to see director Paul Thomas Anderson's follow-up to his 2007 masterpiece There Will Be Blood. Matthew Price of MAMO takes this opportunity mid-hype to give us a brief overview of the young auteur's relatively short but extremely potent career and explore exactly what makes him a Very Important Dude in Film History.
The buzz at TIFF surrounding The Master, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman was near-deafening... film fans all across this great city were clamouring to see director Paul Thomas Anderson's follow-up to his 2007 masterpiece There Will Be Blood. Matthew Price of MAMO takes this opportunity mid-hype to give us a brief overview of the young auteur's relatively short but extremely potent career and explore exactly what makes him a Very Important Dude in Film History.
Every year the fine folks at Row Three do a post-TIFF mega-wrap up, collecting the micro-blurbs of a bunch of attendees into a giant meta-analysis of what everyone liked, loved, hated, etc. etc.. We'll link to that post when it goes up on the weekend, but in the mean time, here's my contribution:
The Toronto International Film Festival is but a distant memory, though we are still getting compliments on all the awesome footage we shot, both for our Midnight Madness coverage and interviews with directors like Don Coscarelli and Rob Stewart. But here's the thing - we had big, large help. Even though we've been at it for 5 years, shooting an event like TIFF is never easy! It's hectic and unpredictable and as a result, getting good looking footage can be difficult if you don't have the right...
William F. White International Inc. is more than just a place that rents out lights and cranes and generators and dollies and green screens and camera cars. They've also got heaps of training and certification programs that can help you become a more knowledgeable set denizen. And every fall they throw their doors open to young filmmakers and students so they can get their hands on some pro-level gear and talk to some experts with field experience, and maybe win a rental voucher. Gear Guide was...
For those of you familiar with our "The Very Important Dudes & Dudettes in Film History Show" video series (hosted by Matthew Price of the MAMO podcast) you'll be pleased to hear that MAMO & thesubstream.com have teamed up to bring you a more in-depth discussion about our favourite filmmakers every month, straight to your ear-holes!
One of our favourite movies of 2011—Manborg, which we saw at Toronto After Dark—has become one of our favourite movies of 2012 with its week-long run here in Toronto at the Royal. A gloriously funny pastiche of ultra-cheap kung-fu, horror and sci-fi, Manborg is also a perfect example of the DIY ethic: it wears its rough, hand-made edges proudly, and its intense roughness makes its devotion to '80s channel-100-at-3-AM crap-cinema ephemera even funnier. We had a chance to speak with director...
Well, it's almost time! Tomorrow advance tickets are set to go on sale for the biggest blockbuster of the holiday season – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. As we've discussed previously on the site, the film will be available in a wide variety of formats. There will be 2D screenings for you traditional folk, RealD 3D for people that like their films to pop out at them, IMAX 3D for those who like their films to pop out at them while being very big (this is my choice), and then there is HFR 3D.
We've explaned exactly what Chroma Keying is. We showed you how to set up a green screen from Whites Interactive. We showed you how to light your green screen evenly. Now, here's Rajo in The Film Lab's edit suite to show you what to do with your green screen footage in Final Cut Pro. Check it out!
As we've already mentioned, Skyfall is an awesome James Bond movie - one of the best, really (if not THE best?). Today's very special Watch This Instead looks at one of the reasons it turned out so great: cinematographer Roger Deakins. He's worked with Skyfall director Sam Mendes many times before and has a special relationship with the Coen bros. also. If you're not a James Bond freak or you can't make it out to see Skyfall, then check out some of his other work instead!
Heya All,I have a new video on my YouTube channel and this time its a music video I shot / edited for Cape Town based band, Cold Hand Chemistry.Please check it out and let me know what you think.Cheerioz! Ruan
The second annual Catalina Film Festival is coming up, May 4-6. What a perfect opportunity for a weekend getaway to beautiful Catalina, while also networking with filmmakers, industry leaders and celebrities. This year's celebrities include Stan Lee, Rachel Leigh Cook, James Scott, Darren Le Gallo, Tommy Chong, Scott Thompson, Daniel Gilles, and Adam Sinclair. Some of the movies set to screen are "Bel Ami" with Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Kristen Scott Thomas and...
