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Pre-Production Our story starts with a fundamental idea about producing a thriller film with style of expressionism and with elements include dream, mask and shadow. Something relates to dark emotion and mental illness problem. The next thing is finding all sorts of inspirations, horror and thriller movies or stories about dissociation of personality or dark…

W12 | Film Festivals

FilmFreeway How It Works Local in Melbourne Melbourne Short Film Festival Thornbury Picture House 802 High Street Thornbury, Victoria 3071 Australia Rules & Terms – We only accept films in English language or with English subtitles – Short films must not exceed the 40 min. length requirement – By submitting to the festival you…

Final Cut Pro X Et – 2. Ingesting and Organising Your Assets

Ingesting and Organizing Your Assets Setting up libraries and importing your assets File →New → Library (You can’t import in your library, instead you import in an event) Rename the date-stamped event – single click to rename Importing media click on Import Media button Or right-click on event →choose Import Media Or shortcut: Cmd + i…

W11 | sound design | Munich – Spielberg

In the much awaited Nerdwriter (2018) video, the video looks at one of the most underrated films of the 21st Century, Munich, Steven Spielberg’s thriller is filled with nerve-rack, action-packed, and emotional moments that tell this true story in a unique way. Nerdwriter’s video (2018), discusses one of the most compelling aspects of Spielberg’s storytelling in Munich – the sound…

W11 | Techniques | The using of Fog Machine

Fog Functions (The Filmmakers Blog 2017) Atmosphere Atmospheric fog will help balance the light in a shot by softening the shadows; Great when filming at night because the fog will brighten the shadow to help avoid noise in your footage; Reflection Makes lights appear fuller and brighter When you use fog you’re releasing small particles…

W11 | Reflection | Shooting on set

The First Day I was sick on the first day, so I didn’t go with them to shoot. But I was able to check out the footages afterwards. There were a few mistakes I noticed and decided to reshoot again on the second day, including The footage looked pink to me as the light shone…

W10 | Reflection | Script Planning and Location Scouting

Our story was adapted from a poem called Disturbed (Brad 2014), there are some problems in the story that we cannot shoot them into the film. So we made a change below. Final Script FADE IN: INT.JANE’S ROOM Jane is lying on the bed. She is covering herself with the sheet and she can not stop shaking….

W10 | Techniques | Diffusion: How and Why You Should Use Soft Light

Diffusion: How and Why You Should Use Soft Light Soft light is used more often than harsh light. There are two ways to get soft light qualities out of a source or to modify a source to get soft light: Bounce light: having something white and hit it, bounce off and create a very soft…

W10 | Techniques | Budget Storm Lightning

Filmmaking Tips – Budget Lightning/Storm How to do a lightning effect? Using After Effects to replicate the lightning. Post-production is not the best way to go. Because of the real shadows and highlights are hard to replicate except pushing the image to overexposed. I have tried it in the last project, most of the effects…

Film Project 2 Final Video

Film Project 2 Reflection