Create a New Reality to Enhance the Fantasy in Your Story
By Michael Goi, ASC, ISC
I’ve always been fascinated with magic. From the time I helped form the Magic Club in high school to my first experiments in doing stop motion animation with my Regular 8 film camera, I was obsessed with how to make the audience believe what I was showing them. For my feature film, Megan Is Missing, that meant using the audience’s expectation of what looked “real” as a way of getting them to be emotionally involved in the story. On American Horror Story, it meant pushing the envelope in cinematic extremities to the point that, even if the audience knew...
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Planning a Shoot: My Way of Storyboarding
By Marco Schleicher, MA
I really like the process of storyboarding. It gives me a clear vision of what I want and what the film should look like. It also helps me to communicate my ideas to other people who are involved. My way of storyboarding is influenced by my former professor Michael Haneke. Like him, I storyboard all shots in the order we see them in the film. I also try to edit the whole movie inside my head in pre-production. For me, the process of storyboarding is a highly important stage of filmmaking. In this article, I will describe my approach to visual storytelling and how I prepare for a shoot...
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2023 Winter Photo Contest Early-Bird Call for Entries!
Early Birds! You can enter up to three photos for
FREE until January 15, 2023!
The contest is open to all levels of photographers including Students, Professionals, Schools, Teachers, and Professors. Share your winter photos from around the world. Inspire and uplift one another. Connect and network with like-minded, creative, and passionate photographers, filmmakers, and visual storytellers from around the globe. All qualified Winter Photo Submissions are showcased on StudentFilmmakers.com. Enter your best winter photos now!...
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Micro-Budget Music Videos and Production Value
on Kinglet’s “Woodpecker”
By John Klein
Every indie filmmaking conversation tends to start with some variation of “write what you have.” So, when I signed on to direct the music video for Kinglet’s lyric-less prog-rock funky guitar song, “Woodpecker,” I took that notion to heart, writing a concept of two late-night workers who find new life in a strange music broadcast. It would feature only the two band members Ryan Taylor and Kendall Lantz, and would only take place in one location (in our case, the black-box Philbin Theater and the basement of the University of Notre Dame’s Debartolo Performing Arts Center) and could be shot with as few as two to three crew members!...
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