How many times have you watched a movie’s end credits and asked “What’s a Best Boy?” Among the many credited film crew members on a production, the Best Boy title might be one of the most curious, simply because the title indicates so little. You probably have questions like “What is a Best Boy?” and “What does a Best Boy do?” And luckily, we have answers.Continue reading What is a Best Boy in Film? Job Description and Duties Explained
Crafting your brand can feel like a daunting task. After all, how do you convey the essence of who you are and what your business stands for in just one look? The answer is simple: create a mood board. A mood board is a visual representation of your brand’s identity, including elements such as colors, fonts, and images that accurately reflect your company’s personality. Here’s how to make a brand mood board that aligns with your brand’s voice. Continue reading How to Make a Brand Mood Board — Examples and Techniques
Selecting and booking your shooting location can be a daunting challenge. Is a permit required? How do you get the owner’s permission? What does your location scout need from you?Continue reading How to Secure Film Locations — FREE Location Release Form
Your production shooting schedule is a living document.Developed by the 1st Assistant Director and producer during pre-production, the shooting schedule must accommodate changes in the shooting script, talent, locations, gear, as soon as they pop up.Continue reading How to Make a Better Shooting Schedule with a Stripboard
You’ve got some money in the bank, some time on your calendar, and a great short film idea to produce. You’re ready to start making a short film. Now what? If you’ve read our overview of short film pre-production, you already know not to jump too far ahead. Much as you might be tempted to hire your cast and crew, there are a few important things that you need to do first. Let’s go through the whole process step by step, and as we parse it out you’ll find that it’s not so daunting after all.Continue reading Making a Short…
How you do ensure your shooting schedule makes the most of your actors’ time, and more importantly, your money? While shooting schedule software organize what happens each day of the shoot, it can’t optimize itself to make sure dead time is eliminated as much as possible. In order to make sure your schedule is airtight, unit production managers use DOOD reports.Continue reading Day Out of Days Reports Explained
Writing an Audio/Visual (AV) script template can be a nerve-racking undertaking. Your message may be simple, but getting it down to one-minute timing can be an intimidating thing. But as with any creative endeavor, you just need to lock down your structure. This is what a trusty AV script template (or audio visual script template) does: it arranges the sights and sounds of your idea into a linear flow. We’ll go end-to-end on how to write an AV script. And you’ll find a free AV script template below to capture your idea right away.Continue reading Ultimate AV Script Template to…
Writing a script isn’t easy, and getting one approved for filming can be just as tough. However, if your script does get greenlit, that means it’ll be in the hands of producers and filmmakers so that the words on the page can come to life. But this same process can involve rewrites, tweaks, changes, omissions — in short, revisions. And with revisions come script colors, which let everyone on set know which version of the script they’re now on. So what are script revision colors, what makes them important, and what do they usually look like?Continue reading What are Script…
A lot of job titles on a film set come from other industries or traditions, and Gaffer is one of them. The Gaffer is an indispensable part of any production but what is a Gaffer? In this post we’re going to break it all down for you. We’ll talk about where the name comes from, what a Gaffer actually does on set, and how you can take on the role yourself.Continue reading What is a Gaffer? Definition and Job Description Explained
We live in an era dominated by shareable content, and one of the fastest growing platforms for this kind of content? YouTube. That's why every day countless people want to know how to make a YouTube channel. Starting a YouTube channel isn't that hard, but laying the groundwork for an effective one, that will reach your target audience and cut through all the noise? That's hard. Continue reading How to Make A YouTube Channel That Stands Out in 5 Simple Steps
