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    Does and Don't of Short Films?

    Hey I'm sorry for an awfully late reply. All of your suggestions and advice is marvelous. I will certainly continue reading up on the basic techniques of filmmaking, and exploring what works for me.
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    My first film what do you think?

    So here is my new short film I made. I'm still new at doing this, and this is only the second time that I attempted at making an actual short film. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Anything that was good, or I could improve on (besides acting of course, cause I didn't use any...
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    cinematography Shot List Help

    Thanks lol that linked helped
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    cinematography Shot List Help

    Hello, So I have prepared my script and everything else for my short comedy film. Now I'm ready to go about making a shot list. What is the most efficient way of going about this? Thank you.
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    Desire Help Needed!

    Thank you everyone for the help. Actually it sort of makes since no, just build off past experiences, make it short and sweet but to the point. Also, I think my problemwas that I was overthinking everyhting lol. Hahaha Thanks again, I'm actually starting to get ideas now.
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    Desire Help Needed!

    Hello, I'm gearing up for local film festival in my area. (high School students) My problem is I have absolutely no idea for a movie. I have spent the last 2 weeks thinking and thinking, asking people but still no idea. Lol, I don't even know whether I should do drama, comedy, or romantic...
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    Does and Don't of Short Films?

    Hello, I'm working on my first short film. I have made a lot of videos before this, on YouTube particularly, but this one I'm going to be entering in a local contest. Since this is my first "official" short film, I want to do as best as possible. So what are some things to avoid with short...
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    editing How would I achieve this effect?

    Hey thanks for the reply. I meant general stop motion for live action. Also, I wanted to include the knob turning along with the water turning on.
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    editing How would I achieve this effect?

    Hello, I'm making a short drama film. Okay, in one scene I want to have the water from the sink mysteriously turn on. What I was thinking about doing was using stop motion to achieve the sink knobs turning by themselves. Any other ideas of how I could do this? Thanks
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    Lost in Genres

    Hey okay thanks for both of the replies. I'm not too much of an actor so yeah....but I certainly will check out out other academy nominated shorts. I definitely want to start getting into some drama. I feel as writing comedy comes hard for me and getting ideas. Drama ideas come to me twice...
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    Lost in Genres

    Hello, okay this is going to seem like a strange post but any advice will be appreciated. Okay, so I'm still fairly new to filmmaking. I have been making videos for about 3 years and placing them on YouTube, and been doing some music videos, and other filming too. Now,my first problem is I...
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    Paranormal Activity Film Style Question

    Ah thank you now I understand
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    archived-videos The Balloon - A Short Film

    Hahahaha I wasn't expecting that lol. It was good, but yeah if you could get the bug (that's what I think it is) noise out of the background it would help. But otherwise good.
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    Paranormal Activity Film Style Question

    Hey, I have a simple question. What style of filming would you call paranormal activity particularly the first one? Or is there even a name for it? Thanks
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