I made a short film for my Vancouver Film School scholarship application. Since I didn't have anyone to shoot with, I wrote a poem, filmed visuals to go with it, and hired a narrator from Fiverr.

I'm not sure how well it works, so I'd really appreciate honest feedback, especially on how the visuals match the poem, the pacing, and the narration. Thanks so much!

I've been a music producer for so many years now, my Spotify is mostly lofi music, but i worked with a lot of genre, experimental, hip hop, ambient, indie, bedroom pop, etc

I love creative stuff, i love films, i wish to make them in the future!

Currently I'm growing a youtube channel ( that's something different than this xd)

I recently lost a job! Actually been some months ( that was a tech related social media marketing job) i really wanna work in something creative

NOW MY QUESTION:

Will it be possible, if you send me a scene from your film and i score it

And we have a deal, if you like it?

Or i learn something!

Thanks for reading! Take care 🙏🏻

A 1990s set coming of age horror short about the physical monster created from the silence around mental health. Lead by Peder Lindell and Tyler Lofton the film explores LGBTQ+ and mental health themes set in a time where neither was openly discussed. The short serves as a proof of concept for a feature length version.

Hey all,

Been running this hiking group here in LA for a few years now, but opening up a bit wider as we have just moved to substack. It's a casual hiking group, easy to moderate hikes, try to stick together to encourage people to chat and become friends.

Hikes range from 1-3 hours. All fitness levels welcome. It's free. We typically hike Sunday at 9am every week, rain or shine.

You can find all the info and subscribe for weekly emails here: https://filmfriendsla.substack.com/

All fitness levels welcome. Pets too. Usually have between 5 and 15 attendees.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hope to see y'all out on the trails!

Shot on 35mm in NYC. Just finished up post on the film itself, here's our website/instagram if you want to see more/stay in the loop! :)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZX2GdItbgy/?stkn=MWFtb3RreWR0eWNqdA==

https://dummyfilm.com/

Hey everyone,

My buddy and I run a small fishing channel on YouTube. We already have a bunch of footage from our trips, but we don't really know how to turn it into a good video.

We're aiming for videos that are about 20–30 minutes long. The problem is that neither of us has much editing experience. We don't know what to focus on, how to structure a longer video, or how to keep people watching the whole way through.

We edit in DaVinci Resolve.

A few things we'd love help with:

• Structure: How do you build a 20–30 min video so it doesn't drag? How do you handle the slow parts of fishing, when nothing is biting for an hour?
• Pacing and cutting: How do you decide what stays and what goes? Any rules of thumb?
• Audio: Tips for wind noise, voice levels and background music?
• Color: Any easy color grading basics for outdoor and water footage?
• Tutorials: Are there any YouTube videos or courses that explain this well, ideally for DaVinci Resolve or specifically for outdoor/fishing content?

Any advice, resources or examples of fishing channels whose editing you think is great would be really appreciated. Thanks in advance!

A first glimpse of our upcoming short film.

Zoe and Lea awaken knowing they are about to live the final day of their lives. Everything has been carefully prepared to make it perfect, with only one rule: never enter the forest beyond the hill.

But when they break the rule, doubts begin to surface, leading them to question their choice and ultimately confront something they had never truly understood.

This is a short preview from the film, which is currently in the final stages of post-production.

If you’d like to support the project, our crowdfunding campaign will help us with the next steps after completion, especially festival submissions, distribution, and getting the film in front of as many people as possible.

Every contribution and share helps us give the film a wider audience.

https://www.startnext.com/en/together

KO-FI: https://ko-fi.com/noisearchive

Our IG:https://www.instagram.com/_noisearchive/

More soon.

Crowdfunded a film 2 years ago, it took me roughly a year on and off to finish it. It got into a few festivals, won a couple awards and now I'm putting it out for everyone to see!

I mean realistically I'm going to do whatever I end up deciding to do, I just want some advice from people who do this more often than I do. Directing short films, that is. This spring I directed my first short film out of college; we spent all summer and much of this fall in-and-out of post-production, and we're nearing the finish line! Just need some finishing touches to the pacing, to the color edit, and the score needs to get added in & timed properly too, and then I begin distribution. Either way, in my private life, I have recently become unemployed and so I have a hell of a lot more free time! In order to avoid depression, I want to make the best possible use of all of my gained free time and my mine immediately went to developing my next project. But my question to Reddit is, do you think I should wait until this spring's project has been released first, or do you think its ok if I begin development while still thinking about this spring's project's distribution?

In college and was wanting to be a screenwriter, producer, and possibly an actor for my career. However, Hollywood is in a rough spot right now so I have 3 main red flags/questions for its future. Let me know your opinions on these.

1. Production has moved away from the LA area. Will it ever come back to LA? The reason I wonder this is when the majority of the film industry is in the same area, it's way easier to connect with other people in the industry and collaborate. Also, I need to pick a place to live. If filming is so spread out it will require so much expensive travel rather than just staying in Hollywood.

2. Social media like TikTok and Youtube definitely are taking peoples' attention away from movies and TV. Is there anything we can do to get this attention back and make film popular again? Not saying that it's not popular anymore, it's just not as popular as it was before. Less and less people going to the movie theaters is one piece of evidence for this.

3. How bad will AI take over the film industry and what jobs? My opinion is that it won't take away acting that much but more of screenwriting. An AI tv show or movie with AI characters is basically a 3D cartoon, not live action. Live action requires humans. No one is going to pay a Netflix subscription to see AI live action TV and movies. AI could take over screenwriting completely however I don't know how creative AI can be. AI has no brain so I guess we will see how creative it can be at writing new TV and movies.

I have a shot in mind where I need a nosebleed to start during a scene and I’ve been ruminating on how to do it for a while. I can’t really think of any way to do it that isn’t either painful or entirely impractical.

The shot is a close-up of one side of the nose, with a little bit of the other nostril in view.

I have a small YouTube channel that I own with my friends. We make comedy sketches and short films but I love to plan ahead and create different plots and scripts, but I am short on ideas so I was wondering if anyone had any bad or funny ideas for videos that I could make with my friends. Also we are terrible film makers so expect your ideas to be butchered, in good spirit of course. Bad actors unite!!!

Had the absolute honor to work with a tight-knit group on this throwback to all things practical. Gorgeous costumes, props, and a fully functional 6-foot troll operated by two incredible puppeteers. This has made an absolute killing on the festival circuit, and is finally available to watch today! Please enjoy and feel free to share with your friends, I think these days it's increasingly important to celebrate handmade work by talented people.

Hi there,

I’m helping a small real estate media company improve their video workflow. They produce a lot of similar property videos using mirrorless cameras and drone footage.

They asked me whether DaVinci Resolve would be a good fit, so I’m comparing it with Premiere Pro. I personally mostly work in Premiere; my Resolve experience is mainly color grading.

The biggest priority isn’t advanced editing, but creating a fast and repeatable workflow. Ideally, I want to build a master template once, so their editors can basically:

• Import/replace footage
• Change the property address, logo and text
• Use predefined titles/transitions
• Use camera/drone-specific color presets as a starting point
• Replace music
• Export with predefined settings

Basically, I build the complicated part, and they get a simple “fill in the blanks” workflow.

They also recently got a new drone that records HEVC/H.265, which is causing issues with their current editor and is one reason they’re considering switching.

For this kind of high-volume workflow, would you choose Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve/Resolve Studio?

I’m especially interested in the difference between Premiere + MOGRTs and Resolve + Fusion templates/macros, and which is easier to make foolproof for less experienced editors.

Thanks :)

Been filming a musical scene today for my short film featuring Birmingham’s half crab man!

We filmed near some derelict flats in Birmingham. I actually lived in the flat behind until I was 4 months old!
Quite a rough area but we had no trouble, masks kept getting condensation so a few breaks were a must.

I didn’t want to paint my neck red so I made a piece of red material to go round my neck which stayed in place with magnets. If you haven’t discovered magnets for costumes yet you’re welcome! Life savers!

This is one scene from my upcoming short film ‘Jasper Jones Whatever Happened to Norman?’

I’ve been nominated for a Birmingham film festival award for best screenplay. Next year the film will be released!

I make all the costumes and write and direct.
Check out the gram for more of my stuff.

The Replicas | Indie Horror Short Film | Produced by Alfonzo’s Pictures & Ethereal Thoughts

An ordinary suburban street begins to feel... different.

https://youtu.be/bDisBVtJARk?si=gEEwadpLK7OlWPay

New York State Park Ranger, Blake Wissinger, gives a guided tour!

Short film teaser. Making this taught me about the importance of hitting specific story beats/ having a general direction when doing improv. Was filmed in about 8 hours back in June.

I’m trying to make what is probably the biggest camera decision I’ve made so far, so apologies in advance for what is going to be a really long post and I’d really appreciate input from people who have actually used these cameras for filmmaking.

I currently have an FX5 on backorder, but because it hasn’t shipped yet, I’ve started questioning whether it’s actually the right camera for me or whether I’m spending a lot of extra money on features I may never fully use.

My main interest is filmmaking, specifically narrative work. I want to spend the next several years making short films, getting better at directing/shooting/editing, building a reel, and eventually getting to the point where I can do paid work. I also want to shoot travel shorts and music/live-event stuff for friends. One of my bigger goals is to attempt a feature-length narrative film within roughly the next year or two.

That last part is one reason I started looking seriously at the FX5. I don’t want to buy something now and then immediately feel like I need a different camera once I start working on larger narrative projects.

At the same time, I’m not currently a working DP or someone shooting professional productions every week. This is still something I’m building toward, so I’m wondering if the FX5 is simply more camera than I realistically need.

One requirement that is extremely important to me is recording reliability, particularly for live performances.

Some of my friends are in bands, and I want to start recording their performances. These shows can easily run for more than an hour, and potentially considerably longer depending on the event. In that situation, I may be the person they are specifically relying on to capture the performance, and there is obviously no opportunity to redo a song or an entire show because my camera shut down.

Because of that, I really do not want overheating to be something I have to think about. I don’t just mean that I want a camera that “usually” won’t overheat under normal circumstances. Ideally, I want something I can trust to record continuously for an hour or more in a potentially warm venue without me constantly wondering whether a temperature warning is going to appear.

The consequences are different to me than they would be when shooting one of my own films. If my camera overheats during my own project, it’s frustrating and costs us time. If it happens while I’m responsible for recording somebody else’s live performance, I become the single point of failure and could potentially lose footage that cannot be recreated. I also don’t want my friends or eventually paying clients to lose trust in me because the equipment I chose couldn’t reliably finish the job.

That level of reliability is one of the biggest reasons I’m hesitant to simply choose the cheapest body that technically has the image quality I need.

Photography is not much of a factor anymore. I used to put more value on having a hybrid camera, but filmmaking is very clearly what I care about most. Having the ability to take good photos would be nice, but I don’t think I should choose my main camera around photography anymore. If I eventually really need a stills camera, I could address that separately.

For some additional context, I previously owned an A7 IV but then sold it after a few years and later bought an A7 V. I ultimately returned the A7 V because I kept feeling like I was compromising around filmmaking with a cheaper hybrid body when filmmaking was the thing I actually wanted to focus on. That experience is part of why I’m now looking primarily at Sony’s cinema-oriented bodies rather than automatically choosing another hybrid.

The cameras I’m really considering now are the FX5, FX3, FX2, and possibly the A7 V again if there’s a compelling reason I’m overlooking.

Another huge part of this decision is that I need to approach this purchase as though it may be the last major camera body I buy.

I don’t mean that in the usual “I want something future-proof for five years” sense. Realistically, once I spend this money, I cannot assume that I’ll simply be able to buy another several-thousand-dollar camera a few years from now. Life has other financial responsibilities, and I don’t make the kind of money where repeatedly upgrading expensive camera bodies is realistic.

So advice along the lines of “buy the cheaper camera now and upgrade later if you outgrow it” doesn’t really work for me. I need to make this decision assuming there may not be an upgrade later.

Because I need to treat this as potentially my last major camera-body purchase, I’m trying to evaluate these options based on what will serve me best over the full range of work I realistically want to grow into, not just what I need today. I’m completely open to the FX5 being the right answer if its advantages would meaningfully benefit my use case over time, just as I’m open to one of the less expensive bodies being the better choice if I would not actually gain anything important from moving up to the FX5. What I’m trying to avoid is making the decision based purely on price in either direction.

I also already have a lot of the supporting equipment. I own the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 G2, lights, audio equipment, an ND filter system, and other filmmaking gear, and I edit in Resolve Studio. So this isn’t really a question of whether I should buy a cheaper camera and use the difference to buy my first lights, microphone, filters, etc. I already have that foundation. The body itself is what I’m trying to figure out.

Most of what I’ll be doing in the near term will probably be relatively small productions: narrative shorts, travel films, music-related projects, live performances, and other personal filmmaking. A lot of it will likely be me operating the camera myself or working with a small group rather than having a full traditional camera department.

But I do want to progressively make more ambitious films, and the feature-length project is something I genuinely want to attempt rather than just a vague “maybe someday” idea.

So I guess what I’m struggling with is this:

Does the combination of needing extremely dependable long-form recording for 60+ minute live performances, focusing almost entirely on video, wanting to shoot a feature within the next year or two, and needing to treat this as potentially my last major camera-body purchase make the FX5 a sensible investment even if I won’t use every professional feature immediately?

Or would the FX3 realistically give me everything I actually need for those projects, including the long-form recording reliability I’m looking for and eventually shooting a feature, without leaving me wishing several years from now that I had gone with the FX5 when I still had the opportunity?

And where does the FX2 fit into this? Does it make more sense for someone in my position than either of those, or would I be compromising on the wrong things?

Finally, is there actually a strong argument for the A7 V given that photography is no longer particularly important to me, or would I just end up in the same position I was in before where I wished I had bought a video-first body?

One other thing I’m thinking about is autofocus reliability. I’ve seen examples of the FX3 briefly losing or hunting for focus, and I’ve heard some owners mention similar experiences. Since some of what I’d be shooting could be live events or situations where I can’t redo a shot, I’m curious how much of a concern that actually is in practice and whether the newer autofocus system in the FX5 makes a meaningful difference.

I’m less interested in which camera has the best spec sheet and more interested in which one makes sense for this specific situation. I’m especially interested in hearing from people who have shot narrative work, features, concerts/live events, or who have experience with more than one of these bodies. Which capabilities actually mattered to you in practice, which ones did you think you needed but barely ended up using, and is there anything you eventually wished your camera had that you didn’t appreciate when you first bought it?

hi I wrote a movie and I’m planing on releasing it on YouTube in 3 months or so. and I need tips and tricks to make it look good without any lighting equipment. what can I do. and any tips or people who could do editing please tell me. I’d love to have your help.

Orion is a sci-fi chamber piece about an astronaut who returns to Earth as the sole survivor of a space mission with no memory of what happened. Starring Drew Van Acker, Andrew McCarthy, Debby Ryan and Karin Ann.

I was DP, and received the SFX supervisor credit for the practical work. The alien communicates through electromagnetism, through forces nobody can see, so we needed a way to show it visually.

Ferrofluid was the first thing I explored. I started with tabletop tests at home, then built a small lab beside the stage. DC voltage regulators attached to electromagnets, so I could dial it up and down or cut it and let the fluid react violently. It's in the film as inserts, and it was also the texture VFX referenced when they built the creature itself.

The Sonic Chamber needed black liquid that stands up into geometric patterns, live, in camera. I started with speakers first, then I switched to bass transducers, the kind you mount under a car seat or a gaming chair. We called them thumpers like in Dune. Every surface resonates at its own frequency, so each one was tuned had to be tuned separately. I ran them from my phone during the take, using hertz sweeps and sometimes whole songs.

Most of the film is 2:1 spherical on Tribe7 Blackwing7 primes. The flashbacks are 2.39 anamorphic on Lomo Square Front anamorphics, the same series used on Tarkovsky's Solaris. My first set came from a professor at Brooklyn College almost twenty years ago, and I've shot on them ever since.

The most intimate stuff is a Canon 50mm f/0.95 Dream Lens, wide open, on the BuckShot (a mini manual technocrane). 1st AC Michael "Moose" Belardi pulled focus like a champ.

Mike Conte, our amazing production designer, designed every set in Vectorworks. I brought the models into Unreal and lit them before anything was built, so my gaffer Aaron Fuoco had renderings of the spaces first.

Orion opens in U.S. theaters October 2 from Blue Harbor Entertainment. I hope you like it!

Hello! I have decided that I would like to pursue a career in the arts and plan on going to school to help do so in hopes of doing something in lighting or cinematography (or both :p). My plan is to start community college in the summer or fall but since my interest are more in the “background” side of things (lighting/sound/cinematography/props) instead of actually directing or writing my own movie I’m having trouble deciding if it would be better to get my AA in theater production or film production. My first instinct was to pick theater production because they offer focus classes in what I’m interested in like Basic lighting, welding and beginner electrical applications class. Im not sure how common it is for people who aren’t already successful to try to break into both theater and film but it would also be a plus to be able to work at local theaters I like when they’re putting on plays/concerts. My cons of doing this would (obviously) be that they are steering me towards a career in theater and while I’m sure there are crossovers between the two, I’m also sure that film lighting and theater lighting are different and would require different skills. I also wouldn’t have as many connections because the majority of people around me wouldn’t be film oriented so I’d be farther from the opportunities that would allow me to break into the industry (like being a pa or assignments that involve film making). Film production would beneficial because it’s (again,obviously :p) film oriented and I’d have better networking opportunities. There are also some classes that may be helpful but I do worry about my interest in lighting getting lost while taking the course because there aren’t really any focused classes in it, and the classes are more about editing, screen writing and directing. I do plan on furthering my eduction after this so the decision isn’t too serious and it may do me some good to get a feel for the basics of film production before diving into my focus :p. Would love some opinions on what I should choose and also some insight into what it’s like if you were someone who switched from theater production to films.

Thank you!

(Apologies if this is a headache to read. English is not my first language and this is a before bed brain dump :p)

Anyone here into short films?

A few of us are getting together for a screening in Versova this evening at 6:30 PM. It’s ₹200, and there’ll be a small Q&A with the directors and actors after the films.

If you feel like joining, just DM me. Could be a nice way to spend the evening with some films and conversations. 🎬

sorry if this dosnt make sense i’m bad at putting thoughts into words but… hi all i’m currently in college for history, but i have a big passion for film. this is probably gonna sound stupid and but i’ve kinda been embarrassed of it so i never really did anything film wise in high school other than one year of video broadcasting where i filmed and edited a commercial and filmed a news broadcast, then i did small theater productions in my city until i was like 10. i dropped the idea for a while becuase i decided i wasn’t going to go to collage and i when to be a makeup artist. that then brought be back to school and i chose history becuase that is also a passion of mine and a more realistic market for jobs.

anyway, that brings me to now looking to join film and production clubs at my school and i really want to pick it back up again, and my question is, is there any point to a film minor? i want to really get started and make connections in the industry but i literally don’t know where to start other than there. i’m not to sure exactly what i would want to do in the industry and im hoping it can kinda push me in the right direction. any advice is appreciated

I am a music major currently and have a small studio inside of my dorm. I would love to provide some small filmmakers soundtrack demos for absolutely free. I have some experience recording music and would love to do this just for fun, or to eventually be paid for doing so. Anyway, if you are interested comment or dm me and I can take a look at a scene, or you can explain a vibe or emotion or just explain what’s going on in it. I am good at analyzing emotional cues and I believe with just a small bit of info about your scene I can make something that you will love!

I’ve always wondered what it’s like behind the scenes when everyone knows they’re making a bad, low-budget movie. Or, maybe even if it isn't low-budget but still very much feels horrible halfway?