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There’s no doubt about it. Filmmaking is exciting stuff. Working on a set, surrounded by the energy of a great…

A screenplay is the literary expression of the story, characters, actions, locations, and tone of your film written in a…

Film is a medium…. A medium is based on an agreement, a contract that has developed over a long period…

In most cases, fictional narrative movies are shot using a single camera. This enables productions to be extremely mobile and…

Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Involve me and I will understand. Short Film…

Making a narrative film, on any scale or in any format, is a multipronged effort. There is, of course, the…

I think the secret to directing is collaborating and I had truly an extraordinary group of collaborators in my crew.…

When you pick up a camera – whether it’s the one built into your smartphone or an Arri Alexa XT…

Historically, analog video cameras fell into neat categories. Professional cameras were big, expensive, well made, and produced high-quality video, whereas…

It is often said that “the lens is the eye of the camera.” This is true, in that light enters…

It doesn’t matter what format or which camera you are using to shoot your movie, deciding if your camera should…

Photography is first and foremost a record of light. You are alone behind the camera, doubling as artist and scientist,…

Everything can be transformed, deformed, and obliterated by light. Its flexibility is precisely the same as the suppleness of the…

Now that you are familiar with the fundamental concepts and techniques of exposure and lighting, we can turn our attention…

Since the beginning of the 21st century, there has been a veritable sea change in the creation and playback of…

The basic production sound team on a small-scale film project usually consists of two people, the sound mixer (aka the…

There are many ways to shoot a narrative film. The complexity of the project, the size of the crew, the…

A film set is an exciting, intense, and often pressure-packed environment filled with energetic people who are focused, driven, and…

After the director has gleefully announced, “that’s a wrap,” after the data wrangler has backed up the last memory card…

The one piece of advice that I would impart to anybody who is looking to be an editor or any…

We gestate in Sound, and are born into Sight Cinema gestated in Sight, and was born into Sound. Forms, Logs,…

Once you have a picture-locked film and a mixed soundtrack, it may seem like the big creative choices are over.…