Category: Filmmaking
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Colour Temperature & White Balance in Film
Filed under: FilmmakingColour temperature and white balance in film affects how your scenes look and therefore your audience’s emotional reaction to what they see on screen. Your choice of white balance on your camera or surrounding lights can have a dramatic impact on whether your scene works or not. What is film white balance? In film, white…
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The Filmmaking Process Used by Pixar to Create Great Animated Films
Filed under: FilmmakingPixar revolutionised the animated film industry with the release of Toy Story in November 1996. Since then many millions of people have enjoyed one successful Pixar animated movie after another. We’ll take a quick look at the filmmaking process used by Pixar Animation Studios to understand how they deliver films that the audience embraces and…
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The Abby Singer Shot: This Shot & One More
Filed under: FilmmakingThe definition of the Abby Singer shot is the penultimate shot of a day on a film or TV production set. It comes before the ‘martini shot’, the final shot of the day. But how did the second the last shot come to be named after assistant director and producer Abby Singer? Who Was Abby…
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What is a Gaffer in Film & TV Production?
Filed under: FilmmakingA gaffer in film and television production is the chief electrician or chief lighting technician. With long experience in the field, they have a vast knowledge of the equipment, electricity, and rigging that is used in film production, including setup, power requirements, and costs.
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What does a Script Editor do in the Film Industry?
Filed under: FilmmakingA script editor is a film industry professional who reads and improves a screenplay or script for a feature film, TV drama, comedy series, radio show or quality short film. They usually work with screenwriters on the development and editing process, and their job is to make a screenplay as effective, powerful and accurate as…
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The Hobbit Sound Recording Team At Work
Filed under: FilmmakingDiscover how The Hobbit sound recording team used music, sound effects and even silence to bring emotion and depth to the characters and storytelling in this iconic trilogy of blockbuster feature films.
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Beginner’s Guide to Gaming Equipment for YouTube
Filed under: FilmmakingIt’s not surprising that there’s a lot of beginners asking about gaming equipment for YouTube. Video games are a huge industry, and set for even further expansion.
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Filmmaker showreel: What makes a good showreel?
Filed under: FilmmakingA good filmmaker showreel presents your skills to potential clients and employers. It provides a snapshot of your work, and it’s a way for you to show off what you’re best at.
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What is a Foley Mixer?
Filed under: FilmmakingA foley mixer adds sounds to film and TV footage during the post-production stage between filming and editing. Professional foley mixers work with foley artists and a foley editor. But for shorts and no-budget projects you’ll probably mix foley along with all other sound tasks. Foley Mixing Cinema Sound Foley Library “How To Mix Foley”…
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Film Script Structure (with examples)
Filed under: FilmmakingFilm script structure starts with the overall shape of your story. The order of events are revealed with purpose, defining causal relationships and shaping a view of the world and our societies. In this article we’ll take a look at Three Act Structure Real Time Structure Multiple Timeline Structure Hyperlink Cinema Structure Fabula and Syuzhet…
