How Can You Create Money Selling Stock Footage?
If you’re looking for a way to generate passive income using your videography skills, selling stock footage is a fantastic opportunity. In today’s content-driven world, video footage is highly sought after by businesses, filmmakers, and marketing agencies. By creating and selling stock footage online, you can monetize your creative work and build a steady income […]
Tips for Succeeding in Film School
Film school is a rollercoaster. It is exhilarating. It can also be challenging. It can be a place for dreaming – and it can become a place for discipline. It can be risky. And the stakes can feel significant: you are trying to bring what’s in your head into the world. If you’re starting film […]
What is Denotation in Film?
What is Denotation in Film? Throughout the film industry techniques and elements from a variety of other art forms including literature and writing, painting and sculpting, and various other mediums are used to produce the films we all know and love. Filmmakers follow many different literary devices and rules when it comes to screenwriting, particularly […]
Understanding the Differences in Production for Interactive Video vs Linear
Interactive video is quickly gaining popularity over linear video formats for a variety of reasons, but one of the greatest reasons for the popularity of interactive video content is the fact that it performs better than linear video content. In fact, interactive videos convert at more than 11%, which is 4x the conversion rate of […]
What is Subject Position Theory in Film?
The concept of subject position theory in film argues that through the study and application of ideas that are evident from positioning theory we can formulate an explanation as to the interactions made between subjects, particularly as they have positioned themselves within the discourse of conversations and as participants in story lines. By understanding the concept of […]
Understanding Cognitive Film Theory
There are a number of studies and film theories that seek to create a means by which we can understand how people perceive or otherwise understand film as an art. Studying the individual ways in which a film can be interpreted represents a key element of film theories which have evolved over the years to […]
Why is Canted Framing in Film Used?
In filmmaking, a variety of camera movements and positions are used in order to create the desired composition on screen. Sometimes, the camera will be positioned so that it is balanced and forward facing without any real tilting or movement while other times, a camera might be angled in such a way that it produces […]
Film Score vs Soundtrack What’s the Difference?
When music is composed for a film its purpose is to heighten the emotional connection that is made between the film and the audience while supporting or complementing the existing visual representation of a scene. Film sound includes a variety of sounds that may include diegetic sounds, non-diegetic sounds, dialogue and music. Much of the […]
Filming in the Snow: White Balance Correction for Filmmakers
When filming in the snow, correcting white balance can be tricky, particularly as some camera settings can leave your footage appearing gray or overly blue. If you’re a beginning cinematographer that’s just starting out, you might be tempted to use the various presets that your camera has to achieve proper white balance while you’re filming […]
Oppositional Cinemas and the Role of Oppositional Filmmaking
While there may not technically be a form of cinema that is considered opposition cinema, oppositional cinemas exist as does oppositional filmmaking which plays a significant role in guiding the socio-cultural and socio-economic contexts of various films. Many well-known examples of oppositional cinema or oppositional filmmaking thus have criticized the traditional norms of cinema introducing […]