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Teacher Central: The Project That Had to Be Reshot
As I had blogged about in last week’s blog entry ‘In, Action!, Out! Filming for Teacher Central’, our edit suite had technical issues...
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Poppie’s Day 4/7 of Principal Photography
Yesterday marked Day 4/7 of principal photography for our Poppie project. Since we only had access to the location on Monday during this...
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In, Action!, Out! Filming for Teacher Central
The time has come! We finally filmed our educational video for the Teacher Central project! And it was a crazy flurry. As you might have...
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Poppie’s First Week of Production: Issues and Lessons Learned with Actors, Location, Equipment, and
Yes, you read the title correctly. It was an intense first week of principal photography for Poppie’s Café for Monsters, with issues in...
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Poppie Goes Belly Up: Of Crisis Management and Carrying On with Test Shots
At the beginning of the week, all LVL5 productions held a mutual production meeting in order to coordinate crewmembers and equipment and...
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Teacher Central: Of Schedules and Studio Bookings
On Monday all LVL5 productions held a mutual production meeting in order to coordinate crewmembers and equipment and fine-tune our...
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Let me Introduce You to… Adobe After Effects and Green Screens
This week, and now that our crew finally settled on all the visual effects needed for Plotopius and the Crimes of Craniarc yesterday, I...
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Lighting Plans – A Cinematographer’s Blueprint
It might not come as a surprise to those of you, who follow me regularly on my blog here, that I have created another round of lighting...
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How to Promote and Finance Your Film - Development Money!
Although people claim that one does not talk about money, the following aspect of development is still interesting and indeed and a very...
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The Stages of Creating a Joint Storyboard
Already from the first read-through of the script, it was obvious that this would be a story that heavily relied on its visuals and the...
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