This tutorial by Armando Ferreira covers many of the different ways to get creative with color grading in Adobe Premiere. Ferreira demonstrates ways to change the look and feel of footage, covering things like LUTS, secondary color effects, and the so-called...
Go Into the Story: Screenwriting Blog by Scott Myers
This blog by Scott Myers will tell you everything you need to know about screenwriting. If you're new to screenwriting, looking for inspiration for your next script, or need advice on breaking into the business, this is the site for you. Check it out here: Go Into the...
AudFest 2017 – Social Change Through Film: “Telling a Story vs Sending a Message”
Participant Media’s Ashley Hasz, Vice’s Dersu Rhodes and PBS’s Phillip Rodriguez discuss what telling a story versus sending a message looks like when making films. Film and television has a strange ability to motivate and inspire people. What is it that inspires the...
Setting the Tone (Watch Video)
The first few seconds of your film set the tone for the entire duration. The frame rate, sound effects, music, light, and color temperature all have significant effects on the audience's emotions. They can also help create a clearer story. This video by Peter McKinnon...
ProConvo: Meet L.A. VICE Producer Sam Winter
Coming up in our Audience Awards Summer Series, filmmakers are invited to sit down with Sam Winter, Director and Producer at VICE. Our Summer Series program offers Audience Awards filmmakers 30-45 minute online interactions called “ProConvos” that allow filmmakers to...
AudFest 2017 – Empire Writer’s Room: “How to Be a Better Writer”
Hakeem walks over to Lucious... JaNeika & JaSheika James explain how aspiring writers should direct their career and describes how to improve their professional writing portfolio. Without writers, our film and television viewing would be pretty dry. Writers are...
How to be a Filmmaker (Watch Video)
"Follow these steps and you too can be like us!" This comedic short by IFHT Films satirizes the world of film, while actually giving some pretty good advice. You'll get an insider's look at the film world without all the usual glitz and glam. This video will show you...
AudFest 2017 – Through the Lens Panel: “Lenses are the Alphabet of Film”
Lights... Camera... Lenses... Professional directors of photography Anka Malatynska and Liz Hinlein explain how lenses are the alphabet of film. Choosing equipment when beginning to shoot a film can be a daunting task. Arguably the most difficult is which...
Storyboarding for People Who Can’t Draw (Watch Video)
If you can draw a stick figure, you can storyboard. With so many incredible storyboard artists out there, it can be easy to believe that storyboards have to be perfect works of art to be effective. However, the most important thing about storyboarding is that you can...
The Importance of B-Roll (Watch Video)
One easy way to improve your filmmaking skills is to include b-roll. The video, Step up your Filmmaking- The Importance Of B-Roll (featured below) by Peter McKinnon shows what b-roll is and why it's important in film. McKinnon introduces a few of the many forms of...