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alrighty. I looked at a lot of film festivals and I looked at the shorts that have won awards. I've seen award wining shorts on Sundance and I must say some of them are pretentious bullshit. I was thinking ,when they are creating this symbolic surrealistic theme do you think the judges over...

So what you guys think are the most overused techniques and maybe stories and things you hate to see and seen 100 times before ? I am mostly talking about short films produced by filmmakers like us , but you can mention features too. Really interested to hear everybody's opinion.

Hello folks. Certain forum members warned me to walk away from this project , I didn't and here we go , the problems aren't late. So they told me that I will be shooting a dancing video . The whole dance would be 3 minute long , they could do it 4-5 times to get different angles and...

Hi folks . I am currently editing my film and I am using After Effects CS5.5 for color grading and VFX and Adobe Premiere for editing. I am UNABLE to use dynamic link between both. Now , if I edit the movie in adobe premiere , then I export the clips to after effects for color grading then...

Hi folks . For those of you who are aware of some of my previous work you may or may not noticed that I am a really visual filmmaker. Visuals are extremely important for me . Unfortunately working on my last project I feel like I didn't quite get the results I wanted to. The problem is that...

Hi! I am looking for a movies like Super 8 , Jumanji , The Goonies etc. Would love some nice movie about youngsters have their regular life when weird things starts happening ,they have this wild adventure . I am in the mood of this type of film but I don't know what to watch, can't find a...

I've asked a couple of people on private messages asking for a friendly advice . But now I want some discussion . I am 17 years old and I am still in high school . I was off school for 10 days ( we started 17th of September) since the school itself wanted me to do a promotional video for them ...

Hey . I have a huge problem . I've been shooting a documentary near mountains when I saw that my SD card is full . I didn't had lap top or anything with me so I decided to get a lap top from a friend of mine and just transfer all the footage there . Of course I forgot to transfer it back to my...

I want to get myself a rather cheap microphone since I don't have much of a budget to record foley and use it to record After Effects tutorials and probably dialogue in the films. I know it's not perfect but I have only about 150 dollars and my incamera mic. What do you think , is Rode worth it?

Alright the title may seem a little more epic than I intended ,but there's nothing epic to talk about . Basically very soon I have to go to university . My question is not whether I want to go to film school or not , it's whether I can move to USA or not . I know most of you are from USA and...

Hello folks ! Currently working on my fantasy film I wanted to make my film look like it was winter time somewhere in the 30's . I found perfect indoor locations , it is lacking windows though . I was thinking if I can build some fake windows and put a green screen , then key it out and put...

Hey guys I was wondering how can I start making some music with the lowest possible budget on a piano . I can play a piano quite a bit as I had some classes before . The reason why I want to make some music for my films is not because I want to become a composer or do anything in that matter ...

I am currently working on my new short film which is a fantasy/science fiction short and I want to understand something and have your thoughts on it . Let's say me and Steven Spielberg talk in a cafe .Then as I leave the cafe later I somehow time travel into the past and I see myself from other...

There are probably a lot of threads like this but I was wondering what makes a good short film good for you personally? Frankly I've made one or two shorts and everybody loves them , but once I sent them to 2-3 people who study at film school they tell me that I'll never become great director...

Hello there. This is a very very rough cut without any color correction/grading or any post work at all including audio , for me they'll play a huge part. Can you tell me if this is too boring for you ? I made this with the little help of my brother who is into filmmaking also...

Hello there , I was wondering if you guys could recommend me some cool movies about filmmaking like Super 8 . I am looking for some great adventure , could be also about geeks and nerds like the movie Paul . Can you recommend me something ? I could watch a drama like Adaptation (2002) too...

Hello there , 4 days ago I shot the first scene for my bigger project which I plan to submit to film festivals . It is mysterious short film and while I was writing it I was listening to an amazing soundtracks from films such as Hugo , Super 8 , etc . I went to the set and I wanted to try...

Hey folks. I got my hands on the BMPC and at that point for the work that I do 13 stops of dynamic range is amazing for me . I always try to go for the cinematic look and I always try to improve my cinematography , but getting certain shots with T2i is just hard or impossible . I was...

Alright guys I really really need your advice for this one. I've been shooting my a bit bigger short film which I planned to be about 12 minutes long . The opening sequence was a huge robbery but I thought to make the robbery reveal itself as the film goes on so I can constantly mix different...

I saw this over Facebook : Why don’t DPs smoke? Because it takes them 6 hours to light it. And was wondering if you guys know any funny jokes regarding filmmaking , I thought it would be fun to share some :D