Film Quick Takes: Three-Point Lighting
Take three still portraits of friends or loved ones using a three-point lighting setup. Three-point lighting is a basic lighting technique used in photography, videography, and filmmaking to create a visually pleasing and balanced image. Learn the steps to set up three-point lighting in this blog.
Film Quick Takes: Ordinary Objects
Short, focused exercises to build your filmmaking skills. Find a very ordinary object. Using different camera angles, lens lengths, and lighting techniques, take three photos that reveal a new way of seeing the object
Film Quick Takes: Tell a Story Using Five Still Images
Short, focused exercises to build your filmmaking skills. Telling a story using five still images is a great way to convey a narrative in a visual and concise way. Here are the general steps involved in creating a story using still images.
Find Your Film's Story: Delve into Character
Character journey is the heart of filmic storytelling. We’re all engaged by characters who face challenges and are transformed by them.
Find Your Film's Story: Work Backward
What you don’t have in resources, you have in freedom. Think about what change or effect you want to create—not what you want to say, but what you want to ask. In other words, what do you want to try?
Find Your Film's Story: Use Your Voice
Many, many short films have been made—but not by you. Think about what it is about your specific experiences, identity, place in the world, life journey, interests, or outlook that you can grow into a character, story, or fictional world. The important thing is—what questions can you ask that no one else can?