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Personally, to start out I would go for one of the typical photographic light kits that include 3-4 soft box lamps. These use those curly-cue fluorescent bulbs, and typically run for about $100 to $200 for a simple set. They won't get you very hard shadows like a spot would, so don't expect...

I'm not excited about the title much. "Why Not Me?" makes sense, so I would keep that. But "Tiny-Budget Filmmaking 101" is an awkward mouth-full. Any reason you aren't using "micro" instead of "tiny?" And I really don't think 101 is necessary, since you'd likely move past the basics in...

Oh? Really? You've only now just realized that saying "The Revolution has already begun" every other post cheapens its meaning or impact? Nonetheless, I'd be rather curious to see what your webseries would be like and what it's main focus would be. I'm working hard to start up a couple of...

Okay, I'm still on the fence about whether I like Cracker Funk or not, but even I know what he's driving at when he refers to the "Revolution." Is it really that hard for you to grasp, Sweetie? Or do you just like messing with him all the time? This "Revolution" is supposed to be a cultural...

I just thought I should post this image to show how ironic this is. From the sound of it, their music has a lot of potential. Ya'll should give it a listen. Also, there have been quite a few other composers who have shared their work here and have tried to capture interest, even just in the...

Sound advice. I would say that shooting stuff on your phone doesn't allow you to get proper close-ups and medium shots because everything is too in-focus and most zooms are not analogue, they are digital. Which could be done just as easily in post, since your just cropping the image that exists...

Hey Jax, glad you brought this up. Because I want to offer something in this light as well on my youtube channel. I'm currently posting tutorials for After Effects once in a great while, involving solutions to problems that I've never seen anyone else come up with. So hopefully I will be...

Reducing noise in video footage has been an issue for a great many years, but I think it has been more of a pressing issue since Youtube took off, and more and more people were producing videos that needed some major clean-up. Truthfully, the better you shoot your footage initially, and the...

I am starting to get the feeling that the way you write your posts is giving everyone the wrong impression. And believe me, I should know. It's very hard to be yourself and speak your mind without everyone taking what you say either literally or to its farthest negative interpretations. I have...

Now that I've watched the whole film, I can really pick up on how relatively well the conversations between Isaiah and Ibby have been written out. I know friends, and even I have had conversations that, while not of the same type or situation, have led to similarly awkward reactions and...

I'm gonna have to pause it there and share some thoughts, because I am currently 10 minutes in, and so far 80% of this film has been spent endlessly watching Facebook texts appear on screen, while partly watching a girl (nearly) motionlessly sit on her bed typing away. And it is getting...

This right here is the fundamental difference between you and a large amount of filmmakers out there: you don't care about exposure, and simply wish to pursue filmmaking as an personally expressive hobby. It's a hard thing to wrap one's head around, because everyone in the film world wants...

Dude, this didn't "gain" a theatrical release. Gaining implies that someone approached you about giving you a theatrical release. Instead what you did was... So you busted your ass and got it in "a" theater. Which shouldn't be scoffed at, by no means. But I also wouldn't necessarily get as...

Movie studios will downsize or split up. Movies will be restructured to be made more cheaply, and studios may even refuse to work with certain actors due to the high asking prices, unless or until those actors choose to go with the flow and settle with the new status quo of a smaller paycheck...

Yes. Wonderful. Brilliant even. I agree with every aspect of this. This is the harmonious mixture of both realistic expectations and high-flying dreams that I think should be encouraged more. One cannot do new and exciting things without keeping both concepts well in hand.

This is actually exactly what I want to get freelance work doing as I build up my portfolio of shorts and other video projects. I stumbled across some pretty broad and in-depth tutorials by a Youtuber named Mt. Mograph, who has almost 80 videos regarding a multitude of Motion-Graphics concepts...

I agree with Welldone, this looks amazing as-is. The only thing I would suggest is that you pull down the whites in the clearly overexposed shot of the small house, and that shot with the road and trees going away from the camera on the left side (at 0:17). I would also look into purchasing some...

It's a different kind of revolution. And there might actually be more than one all related to film. Filmmakers from a younger age are making an impact, not only because they now have the ability to make films and the venues within which to share those films more easily, but younger filmmakers...

If this is being asked in the way I think it is, then I feel that it is a bit misguided. To ask this question means to ask "what should I do to make people like me just as much as they like this other artist?" Which can translate to, "what elements must I borrow from these other more profitable...

I don't usually make a habit of checking what someone's gender is before speaking to them in a forum like this. And even when I have, many times no gender is given in certain profiles and forums. So I simply chose to split the difference and do the PC thing, which is use the term "they." I...