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Two Interview Lighting Tutorials That'll Kick Your Footage Up a Notch
So you’re getting ready to interview that expert for your short documentary, and you want to review your interview lighting technique. Or maybe you’re just looking for an introduction to lighting in...
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Lighting for Mood: Another SMAPP Lighting Tutorial from Stillmotion
We’ve covered plenty of tutorials before, but most recently, we featured a particularly useful interview lighting demonstration from stillmotion, which is designed to be a complement to their SMAPP...
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Lighting an Interview with $26 Worth of Equipment: a Free SMAPP Tutorial from...
The team over at stillmotion has come all the way from wedding films to producing Emmy Award-Winning television content, and along the way, they’ve done their part to try to teach as much as they can...
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Is the Canon C100 Currently the Best Fully-Featured Budget Filmmaking Camera?
The Canon C100 is an interesting addition to the Cinema EOS line. Available for about a month now, the camera spec-wise falls right in line with the Sony FS100, except it has ND filters and isn’t...
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How to Shoot Smoother Handheld Footage with DSLRs
While any number of shoulder rigs and supports have come out in the last few years for DSLRs, some either don’t want the bulk, or need to stay quick or stealthy, and not call attention to themselves....
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Updated Version of SMAPP Mobile App Brings Handy New Filmmaking Tools Right...
The fine folks over at stillmotion have been providing the film community with awesome educational resources for the past couple of years; everything from tutorials on how to light an interview to how...
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Find the Perfect Music for Your Film with Marmoset, a Revolutionary New Music...
Finding and licensing music for your film can be a bit, well, let’s just say that it makes violently tearing your hair out seem like a preferable alternative. Most music licensing sites force you to...
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NFS Exclusive Premiere: Short Doc 'Side by Side' Shows the Magic of Creative...
Art is a funny thing. As a form of personal expression, art, in its many forms, can be tremendously powerful and provide a sense of catharsis unlike anything else. However, when groups of people come...
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Here Are a Few Simple Tips to Make Your Exterior Lighting Shine
It’s one of the clear-cut signs of amateur filmmaking: daytime exteriors that look terrible. This usually manifests itself in the form of harsh, blown out areas on the face of your talent, or as overly...
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Tutorial: How to Animate Still Photos in After Effects
One of the post-production techniques I’ve yearned to know more about was animating still photos. We’ve seen this used in countless film intro sequences, and now motion graphics artist and director Joe...
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Stillmotion Launches Trailer for Their First Indie Feature Doc, Plus...
Here at No Film School, we’re massive fans of the fine folks over at Stillmotion. Day in and day out, they’re not only doing what they love (and doing it well) in order to make a living, but they’re...
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How to Animate Still Photos in After Effects (Part 2): A Follow-up Tutorial...
Back in November, we shared a great video tutorial by Joe Fellows that walked us through how to animate photos in After Effects by using the parallax 2.5D effect. Though the video received a warm...
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Joyce Tsang of Stillmotion Discusses Choosing the Best Camera to Tell Your Story
When many of us first picked up a camera, it was whatever we had lying around. Maybe it was dad’s old Super 8 at home or the Handycam in your high school yearbook class. It was available, affordable,...
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Stillmotion's Powerful First Feature-Length Doc '#standwithme' Now Available...
Here at No Film School, we’re massive fans of Stillmotion. Not only was their transformation from small wedding videography outfit to an Emmy-winning production company an incredibly inspiring one, but...
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Story & Heart Is Revolutionizing the Way We Think about Stock Footage
There are many ways for filmmakers to use their skills to generate income. You can move to a major filmmaking hub like New York, Los Angles, or Atlanta and cut your teeth in the world of features and...
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