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1. Stop thinking of your camera as lacking in quality. I just won $400 at a festival for a movie I made using a similar camera. If it captures images, it's a fine tool for making a movie. 2. LIGHTING! Search these forums and elsewhere for as much info on lighting as you can find. Lighting is...

Three or four years ago, before the WAB auto-add, knowing a film might potentially be on IMDB was a good way to get some class talent to come to our auditions. Actors would arrive with stars in their eyes and ask more questions about the potential IMDB credit than the rehearsals and shooting...

There is at least one 48 Hour Filmmaking contest thingie in most regions of the country every year. Looks like Seattle in July and Portland in August. Check out http://48hourfilm.com/en/seattle/ They have meetups and events beforehand and you can often join a team if you don't want to start one...

I wish to co-teach a community college course with you on The Three Act Structure And Its Presence and Absence In Cartoons because I think that is my new dream job.

I love every single bit of this and you are a credit to filmmakers for doing this up.

A book called Digital Video Production Cookbook: 100 Professional Techniques for Independent and Amateur Filmmakers is a great way to learn about creating mood and effect with a single movie light. It's real basic stuff but depending on your ability/experience it's all adaptable and progressive.

Every old Loony Tunes cartoon uses the same basic three act structure in the Field book. I find very little more inspiring to short screenwriting than Loony Tunes. They cram a ton of story into 7 minutes. Every one.

There is no manual for where to keep teeth after the tooth fairy has taken them, so into the bedside box they go! But what a macabre thing to keep, right? Thanks for watching, friends.

I leave that custom dial set to exposure, and activating is how I remember to lock the exposure. I thought I'd be using it for focus, but I never use it for anything but exposure. Hit that button and the exposure is locked to wherever you set it. What do you use yours for? Focus is a bitch at...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hc4XWxfHdk I did this last week for a literary journal contest. Completely one-man band. Prize is $400! Hope I win. SPECIFICS AND PARTICULARS: Camera: Canon Vixia HFS100 Light: Home Depot aluminum cone thing with the clamp, 75w bulb Sound: Zoom H4n with a...

Happy Boxing Day! I disabled my Google+ account a year ago, and suddenly discovered it was turned back on a couple of weeks ago so I disabled it again. Suddenly my YouTube videos were all set to private. The message indicated I couldn't make them public unless I reactivated my Google+ account...

Hurry up! We're all counting on you!

I like the second cut better. It seems to move more quickly, draws us in VERY quickly to his story by starting with the mother. Editing IS filmmaking. Nice work!

Just up my alley. Loved it!

I thought it was good! Visually, you've already done what I suggested you do. I think you could make it more compelling, though, to alter the story slightly. Make it a story not about a man out of work. Instead, have the part of him recalling his Hong Kong childhood near the beginning, then...

Without seeing your film it is hard to judge what the problem might be, but length alone isn't one of them. You can make a compelling doc in four minutes. Don't listen to any arguments about length alone. A man sitting in front of the camera telling his story isn't using the medium to its...

Thanks for watching! Here is the Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/50872237

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM93lbU-hos This is completely crowdsourced, and by crowdsourced I mean I got much of my source material from you guys, the Indietalk crowd! I had written a jazzy, beatnik-like street poem about the death of barbershops and wanted to capture it on film. I asked...

Story time re: digital vs. analog: Few years ago I did a little woodwind work in the studio for a punk band called Downtown Brown at the Tempermill Studio in Detroit, one of the zillions of ancient small Detroit studios. In the booth was a mixing board the size of a pool table, encased in...