Film & Theater

Film & Theater

Aspiring actors, directors, filmmakers, set designers, this is the place for you! Get ready for the Hollywood red carpet and learn about acting, animation, cinematography, lighting, editing, props, sound, and puppetry. Build a camera jib crane, use a green screen or create digital special effects. After you've watched these filmmaking videos, you'll be ready to prepare your Oscar acceptance speech.

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Effectively pan with your video camera

Panning refers to sweeping your camera lens across the scene horizontally or vertically. Panning can be a distracting or even disorienting ...more

How to effectively pan with your video camera
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Use zoom on your camera for effect

A zoom refers to using your camera controls to change the focal length, resulting in a telescope like magnification of the view. While some ...more

How to use zoom on your camera for effect
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Cover problems in your video by editing cutaways

Make sure the footage for cutaways and cut-ins is listed in your plan before arriving to do the shoot. It is also good practice to shoot ...more

How to cover problems in your video by editing cutaways
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Use a cutaway interest in your video project

The cutaway is a switch from the primary video source to a second video source outside or away from the current scene. It is important that ...more

How to use a cutaway interest in your video project
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Use a close shot for your video project

The close shot, sometimes called a tight shot, is usually a bust shot or closer. This type of shot can be very effective for capturing ...more

How to use a close shot for your video project
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Make an organization xiii coat for Cosplay

Check out this tutorial video sequence to learn how to make a Kingdom Heart's 2 Organization 13 Coat for Cosplay! In part 1, you will learn ...more

How to make an organization xiii coat for Cosplay
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Make a cardboard sword for Cosplay

Check out this step by step instructional video to learn how to make a Cosplay Sword from cardboard and wood! Make sure you have all of the ...more

How to make a cardboard sword for Cosplay
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Make prop glass out of sugar

Don't use real glass as a prop and end up cutting or hurting yourself. Prop glass made out of sugar looks just like the real thing, and ...more

How to make prop glass out of sugar
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Make a Halloween Jason hockey mask

Jason Voorhees might be one of the scariest horror villains, and that's why he would make for a great Halloween costume. For this project ...more

How to make a Halloween Jason hockey mask
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Make a cheap and easy prop skull

Skulls. We all love 'em. I'm gonna show you how to make a copy of a plastic skull using Hardware store expanding foam. Watch this video ...more

How to make a cheap and easy prop skull
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Make a cheap corpse head prop for Halloween

Dr Kreepy, Halloween crafter, shows how to obtain a rotting head without killing someone! For this project, you will need a skull ...more

How to make a cheap corpse head prop for Halloween
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Make a latex skull mold to make a plaster skull

Dr Kreepy, Halloween craftsmen, shows a cheap and easy way to make full and partial skulls from Plaster of Paris! For this project, you ...more

How to make a latex skull mold to make a plaster skull
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Make cheap prop eyeballs for Halloween

Super cheap eyeballs without breaking the bank! While grapes are the safe standard to spook out trick or treaters, they don't look very ...more

How to make cheap prop eyeballs for Halloween
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Make a cheap fog machine

In this video special effects tutorial, Dr Kreepy talks about cheap fog machines and shows how to make a fog chiller. Quick and dirty! Fog ...more

How to make a cheap fog machine
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Build cheap prop tombstones for Halloween or effects

Follow along with Dr Kreepy in this quick video tutorial on how to do cheap and easy tombstones for your home haunt. You will need a marker ...more

How to build cheap prop tombstones for Halloween or effects
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Keep a camera steady with a tripod

Nothing makes the viewer nauseous faster than a shaky camera. Fortunately, a tripod will keep the shot nice and steady. Watch this video ...more

How to keep a camera steady with a tripod
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Make a storyboard for a film

A story board helps decide which scenes to film and for a good production. Shooting is much easier with a plan, and storyboards provide a ...more

How to make a storyboard for a film
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Enhance videos of a static scene using photographs

This video presents a system for automatically producing a wide variety of video enhancements and visual effects. Unlike traditional visual ...more

How to enhance videos of a static scene using photographs
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Build a lightsaber prop for film making

Backyard FX shows how to build a real lightsaber. Erik Beck unearths the original lightsaber blueprints from the special effects creator for ...more

How to build a lightsaber prop for film making
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Make an inexpensive green screen at home

Interested in creating video with brilliant looking backgrounds behind you? Here's some fundamental Basics for Green Screen setup and use ...more

How to make an inexpensive green screen at home
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