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Hi everyone, It's been a while I've visited IT since there lots of stuff going on keeping me off filmmaking. I'm approaching graduation (Energy Engineering) and for the Graduation Ceremony, there is usually a short and official (read : approved by administration) video thats is screened to...

Hi everyone, I made a short last year and i thought it was gonna be a one-shot. I did it as a promo film for the movie-club I was directing. There was these 3 guys talking about disgustingly funny sexual stuff and then a guy comes along to present the video club to them and one of them kills...

Hey guys, I've had a short movie idea stuck in my head for a few days and I figured I might as well try to do it. I'm in the process of writing the script but I'm also thinking about the technical departement. Since I really believe in this one, I'm prepared to throw in all the money I have put...

Okay, it's something that I never understood and that gives me serious itching when I read articles about. I know the real way to do it is to use Timecode. As Guerilla filmmakers we don't have that so moving on. The way I usually do it is to clap using hands or slate. Then I drag every...

Hey everyone, I worked on my first wedding. I'm nearly done with the highlights and would like you to critic the edit (bad shots, bad editing, anything) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR74T6OpNmc Thanks !

Hey everyone and especially mic specialists. I have something to shoot on Tuesday and I have to choose a mic between one of these three : Sennheiser MKH 418 P48 (non S version I think : read below) Sony ECM-NV1 Sony ECM-674 The mic will be used on a boom, plugged into an H4n and we will...

I've started the show a few days ago and I've been into it since the pilot. Which is really odd. Usually, good series need some time to build up on you and get you hooked, like Mad Men, Rome and many other classics. But HoC gets you from the first episod. Now, if you haven't watched the...

Hi, i'm currently attending a small short film Festival in Norway. I just missed the first day and we closed today Day 3 of screenings. I can't help but notice how most of the films fall within the same "genre". i'm talking about this "metaphorical" kind of movie where there is no real...

Hey everyone, Yesterday, I had an idea an a camera so I found two friends and we shot it. Now has come the time to edit it and do some VFX. It's one scene, at the bathroom, with two guys, each in a "booth" doing his business, separated by a wall and with the door closed and talking to each...

I've seen Django and I felt like every fucking scene had way too much elements that were overexposed. Books, guns, skies and other things I don't remember, there just was too many of them that it left me wondering if it was intentional. Last I heard, QT shoots on film which is supposed to have...

Hi everyone, I'm planning a shoot next week. The scene is happening in the morning, in a hallway with some sunlight getting in through a big big window on one end. But it just won't be enough for the entire hallway and the scene really needs th entire lengh of it. I can get as much 1kW...

Hey you, The idea was to submit a horror short for the Film Riot challenge but because of work and other projects, I didn't really have time to get on it before yesterday. And picture is quite complete but sound... Music, foley and everything else is still missing. . I abandoned the idea of...

Hi everyone, I'm looking for movies with a lot of voice over, with a main character telling his story, even in a lyric way. I'm thinking things like Lord of War, or even Into the Wild although it's often poems. Short films would also work great. The more powerful the narration, the more I'm...

I shot a little parody of an italian TV ad and I'm now editing the thing. I just hate sound. I just can't begin to understand how it should be done. I would kill to have the opportunity to sit next to someone who knows what he's doing while editing his short. What I learned was that I should...

Hello i'm shooting a scene that involves a couple watching TV. To emulate the reflection of the screen on theur face, I know of a trick that consists in moving a white paper in front of the fill light (with a CTB) and that would do it. I'm wondering if there is another way to do it completely...

Hey everyone, I made this short and I consider it to be my first one even thought I tried before. This is the first one I wrote, directed, DoPed and edited all the way through. It was shot on Tuesday at sunset (you can tell), edited on wednesday after classes and a little bit on Tuesday at...

Hello everyone, As always, when I have a question involving filmmaking I come here for advice and opinions. I'm in an engineering school and this year I'm the president of the "cinema club". Last year, the club wasn't very active and this year I decided to inject in it some life. So I got...

Hi everyone, I'm planning to shoot a little scene in the following days. The scene takes places in a parking lot and involves people talking while rap music is being played from a car nearby. Now I'll be adding the song in post but how make the "studio quality MP3" sound like it's coming out...

I'm so angry at myself right now. I bought the official Rode Windscreen because I planned to pick up some outdoor audio and did something I never do. I bought without checking comparisons and tests... This thing sucks. I should have researched it just a little bit...

Hey everyone, I was planning a video to shoot in a few weeks and was planning my opening shot being a very wide dolly in. I'm expecting the shot to look a little bit like the opening scene in this trailer ...