Recent content by lovinfilms

Hello Everyone. I recently had the opportunity to interview a film director who just finished his third feature film and he managed to get it completed for $300,000. He shot mostly on location, although he did shoot a few scenes in LA. I conducted an interview with the filmmaker and he agreed...

It's hard to tell with still photographs, but I would guess that you're trying to mimic the film look with DV. It's impossible to do with moving images, but there are some things you can do to make the look slightly more similar. Your second shot is less saturated which is usually associated...

Generally there are three major "narrative beats" or "plot points" in a basic 3 act structured screenplay. Each one exists before the next act to help propel the story into the next act and add momentum to the story (they usually put more stress on the main plot of the story and / or put your...

You can also clone by using the "crop" function in your NLE. You just need to ensure your staging is done correctly so you don't have your characters overlapping to the "other" side of the screen. Also, if you use the "crop" feature in your films, you need to ensure consistent lighting. Even a...

Ah. This is frustrating because you probably couldn't notice the problem on your small LCD screen on your camera. I was working on a production about two months ago with a similar problem, luckily it was just B-roll footage (but very good footage that we otherwise would have used). if your...