Set Design Film & Theater

Make a shoebox lens for your camera

How to make a shoebox lens for your camera

Try your hand at some camera special effects with a cool shoebox lens. This is a cool picture effect that can add life to your ...

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Create and animate a stop motion LEGO brickfilm

How to create and animate a stop motion LEGO brickfilm

After years of playing around with Legos as a kid, I've finally found the value in them... brickfilms! The next time you clean ...

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Make a creature puppet that bites and wags when held

How to make a creature puppet that bites and wags when held

Scare the hell out of everybody with this horrific puppet creature... in your movies that is. This is a great and scary puppet ...

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Operate a steadicam

How to operate a steadicam

I love Indy Mogul. Here they give us an inside on how to use a steadicam. If you've ever seen a steadicam on set you know it is ...

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Make a $15 flashlight camera protective housing

How to make a $15 flashlight camera protective housing

And by protective, they mean fireball explosion proof. And the $15 price tag could be easily avoided by just using a flashlight ...

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How to build a Sweeney Todd barber's chair

Build a Sweeney Todd barber's chair

The guys at Indy Mogul show you how to make a trick barber's chair like Johnny Depp's, as seen in the Tim Burton movie Sweeney Todd.

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How to scout for locations, guerilla style

Scout for locations, guerilla style

No, this isn't location scouting in the professional, industry term, where often paperwork and legal matters become involved. We mean it in ...more

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How to build a Miniature Set for $10

Build a Miniature Set for $10

Sick of the REAL world and all of its REAL problems? Well, with a few sheets of cardboard and some cool tricks, Indy Mogul shows you how you ...more

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How to build a simple stop motion puppet stage

Build a simple stop motion puppet stage

Check out this fun animation tutorial video that shows you how to build a simple stage that sits on a table for your animation using a stop ...more

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How to build a small and movable stage

Build a small and movable stage

In this stage design and construction video series, learn how to build one of those small “portals.” Our expert—a director, actor, and ...more

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How to find zero budget locations for your film

Find zero budget locations for your film

Every good film needs some good locations, but what are you supposed to do if you don't have the money or time to get some good places to ...more

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How to make a display entry archway for Halloween

Make a display entry archway for Halloween

Check out this Halloween set video that explains how this entry archway display was created. This show & tell video was taken ...more

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How to wrap cables like a cable wrangle

Wrap cables like a cable wrangle

Learn how to properly wrap all kinds of cables, especially ones for film equipment. See how to be an official cable wrangler.

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How to build a stop motion animation stage

Build a stop motion animation stage

This short construction tutorial video shows how to build a small, simple stage from scratch specifically for animating a claymation or stop ...more

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How to design a set for the intellectually impaired

Design a set for the intellectually impaired

This video will show you how to design a set for a theater production based around common sense and the needs of the theater company. After ...more

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How to make a table top puppet theater

Make a table top puppet theater

Make a folding puppet theater that stores easily and comes alive with your own designs, including decoupage, stencils, and stickers in this ...more

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How to learn about set design

Learn about set design

This video sequence will teach you the basics of set design. It will teach you how necessary the overall theme is to keeping the director ...more

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How to stage a theatrical set

Stage a theatrical set

In this video series, watch as school theater expert Peggy Charlton teaches theatrical staging basics. Learn how to build sets, the location ...more

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How to design a set with a real life location in mind

Design a set with a real life location in mind

This video will show you some basics of set design and how to design a ...more

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Fire + Gravity + Corrosive Liquids = Explosive Rube Goldberg Fun

They Way Things Go is a Rube Goldberg inspired art film by Peter Fischli and David Weiss (1987). The 30 minute film documents an assembly line of action and reaction. Wikipedia: "The machine is ...

DIY LED Carpet-Light

For the craftsters & LED lovers, great idea by Johanna Hyrkas. The LED carpet-light: a simple, yet novel, DIY project. A single strand of LEDs is encased in a knit tube; the knit tube is wound ...

Make Fuel With Mountain Dew

Mountain Dew is the answer. Inventor Paul Patone has devised a mechanism that converts soda into actual usable fuel. "It’s called the Geet Sytstem. Basically, it’s a fuel booster system that can ...

No Lightsaber Required: DIY Jar Jar Binks Salad

Yum, geekdom fun. A Jar Jar salad. Wonderfully silly How-To from Only Knives: "A side dish from the Dark Side: Sculpt Jar Jar Binks out of a root vegetable." You'll need some serious ...

Sculpt Melted Cassette Tape Puddles Into Skulls

Cool cassette tape art by Atlanta based artist Brian Dettmer. From Design Boom: "...Dettmer was walking down the street he spotted a dead bird and an idea hit him. ‘here was this thing that used ...

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