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Carl Laemelle: The Making of the Movie Business: From Silent Grandeur to the Talkies

The Stuntmen Who Make Movie Action Look Real

When audiences watch a character leap from a building, crash through a window, tumble down a staircase, or survive a The post The Stuntmen Who Make Movie Action Look Real appeared...

From Script to Set: How a Micro-Budget Feature Ran Pre-Production and Ten Shoot Days on Cinelog

On every small crew I’ve worked on, nobody has just one job. The person breaking down the script is also building the... The post From Script to Set: How a Micro-Budget Feature Ran...

Robert Rodriguez's 4 Rules for Making a Profitable Movie

Look, we don't have to tell you that making feature-length movies can be expensive. It's simply impossible not to incur some cost if you're asking people to work on something that...

How a Film Crew Protects Gear on Location

The call sheet said 5 a.m., and by the time the sun broke over the terminal, a small independent crew The post How a Film Crew Protects Gear on Location appeared first on MovieMake...

Movies About Writing

We spend our days plotting murders, planting clues, and torturing characters, and yet the hardest scene to stage is the one where a writer just sits there writing. Nothing blows up...

How Indie Filmmakers Fund Their Passion Projects

A first-time director stares at a spreadsheet at midnight, coffee gone cold, trying to figure out how a $180,000 dream The post How Indie Filmmakers Fund Their Passion Projects app...

What Filmmakers Should Consider Before Choosing an Overseas Filming Location

The right overseas location will transform the look and scale of a film entirely. The streets of an actual city, The post What Filmmakers Should Consider Before Choosing an Oversea...

The Importance of Movie Moments

Moments which stand out in a screenplay can not only grab a reader’s attention, they can also convey a story’s theme.Hollywood’s first great movie producer was Irving Thalberg and...

How Video Editing Tools Are Transforming Pop Culture Commentary

In an era dominated by high-budget visual effects, streaming wars, and hyper-realistic gaming graphics, the line between indie creators and Hollywood production studios has blurred...

This is For the People Who Are Nervous to Make a Movie

In a time when independent filmmaking is more accessible than it’s ever been, the intimidation factor is still the number one thing that holds creatives back from taking the big le...

How Films Actually Get Made Now: Three Routes to Audience

The question every media professional learns to ask is not “Is this good?” but “How did this get made?” Right now, that question has three […]

10 Creative Challenges to Take Your Filmmaking to the Next Level

Last week I started a new spec. It was a genre that I haven't worked on since, like, 2017, and it was immediately hard. There were days I felt like I was making stupid choices, and...

Why Video Conversion Matters Before an Indie Film Reaches an Audience

Completion of an indie movie does not mean that the file is ready to leave the editing room. The completed file might... The post Why Video Conversion Matters Before an Indie Film...

10 Online Tools Every Filmmaker Can Use Beyond the Editing Suite

The editing suite is only one part of making a film. Scripts, casting, location scouting, production documents, reviews, festival submissions, publicity, and... The post 10 Online...

Trailer For Movie-Making Documentary MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE From Eleanor Coppola

Should You Still Move to LA to Make Movies?

You know the age-old story of the Hollywood hopeful hopping on a bus somewhere in the Midwest and making the big move to the city of stars, Los Angeles, where movies and dreams are...

How Producers Can Balance Local and International Crews on Global Film Productions

International film production can be most effective when there is a combination of a traveling core that understands the creative The post How Producers Can Balance Local and Inter...

How Our Film Westhampton Faked a Car Crash on a $6K Budget

Christian Nilsson is the writer and director of Westhampton, which stars Finn Wittrock as a struggling filmmaker who is haunted The post How Our Film Westhampton Faked a Car Crash...

MoviePro 10 for iPhone

MoviePro 10 is an independent iPhone camera app that has been around since 2012. Back then, shooting serious video on an iPhone was still relatively unusual, and MoviePro provided...

6 Tricks for Faking a Car Crash

You always want your opening sequence to grab attention. How can you set up your story and hook the audience, all in one go? And how can you do it on a low budget but still get tha...

Why Sports Stories Continue to Make Great Movies and Documentaries

Sports arrive with narrative machinery already installed. A race has a finish line, a playoff series eliminates somebody, an injury

New film pre-production player in town: CineLog

CineLog is a film pre-production tool that keeps the script, breakdown, shot list, storyboards, shooting schedule, and call sheets in one project, on every device the crew carries....

What Can Live-Action Movies Learn From Animation? 7 Insights

With live-action adaptations like “Lilo and Stitch 2” and “Tangled” in production, the conversation about whether these films are doing their animated counterparts justice continue...