Casting actors and talent is an important part of the pre-production process, and it's something that shouldn't be taken lightly. There are a few places where you shouldn’t try to cut corners, and on-screen talent is one of them. The movie-rating website rottentomatoes.com is filled with beautifully produced movies...
A treatment is a document that informs the reader about the story you are telling in your screenplay. Some writers use it as an outline to flesh out a story. Others use it to secure funding and support from producers, investors, and agents. Because there are numerous ways you can use a treatment, there are multiple formats you can use.
Whenever you're shooting outside the confined walls of a video studio, you're shooting on location. And whenever you're shooting on location, you must deal with site-specific circumstances — circumstances of lighting, power, noise, people, furniture, pets or anything else that might help or hinder your video efforts. This is...
Are you stir crazy from COVID-19 and shelter-at-home orders? Do you know how to write a script? It’s never been a better time to shelter-in-place and stay safe behind your computer while you write that script that’s been percolating in your head for years.
It’s impossible to condense narrative feature...
A storyboard is one method of planning ahead and it helps a lot during the pre-production process. By visualizing your shots with a storyboard, you can see how your shots fit together before you've shot a single foot of film or frame of video, which will prevent you from...
Writing low budget movie scripts is one of the harder forms of screenwriting. However, it’s also one of the most rewarding.
Coming up with great, original video ideas is hard. Luckily, there are many things you can do to help get your creative juices flowing.
If you want people to respond well to your film pitches, you need to learn how to write and present your pitches in an exciting, effective way.
Identifying keywords an essential strategy for attracting more viewers to your work. Here's how to effectively research keywords as an online video creator.
Have you ever noticed how sometimes films reuse a piece of sound, music, or visuals over and over again? Those are what we call motifs.
