Tag: filmmaking
Our third short film started shooting today at the local grade school. We shot for about two hours and then broke for ice cream. We managed to complete three scenes from our movie titled: Bike Race. In a nod to…
This post will be very high on the film geek meter. If you don’t care about how movies are made, move along. Shot One Close Up of the Hero played by Spencer. The camera is mounted on a tripod and…
This film was a sequel to a film we called The Race where both brothers raced each other around the court on roller blades. The first film ended in a tie, so they raced again in this movie. The first…
If you want to be a filmmaker, study the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone. The man was a composition genius. Turn off the sound to any of the Eastwood Man With No Name westerns and just watch the composition of…
I recently acquired a tripod for use in filming and thought I’d show you how I tailored it for my use. I needed a solid pair of sticks with a ball joint head so that I could swap out heads…
This weekend I spent time perfecting blue screen photography in my garage studio. Initial tests with my two new 150 watt frosted floods proved to be an insufficient amount of light. So I resorted to the poor man’s movie broads…
My story roots go back to film. I made 8 mm films as a teenager and later went on to film school at UCF. During school and for a spell afterwards I continued to make Indie movies and commercials. Writing…
I’ve been in the market for a DSLR camera lately. Back in college, I used to sell SLR cameras and thus carried a ton of baggage from that era. This was from a time long ago when cameras used real…
