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What Happens Behind the Camera: The Film Production Stages

You’ve always loved film and dreamed of making one yourself in the future. What we don’t see is it’s more than just having a great story pitch to have a movie make it to production. Let’s look into the seven different stages in film production. And see why some great stories don’t even make it to the second stage. Or …

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Short Films Made In Blender

Blender has come a long way from being just an open-source CG software that has a lot of cool features for producing short films and games. Over the years, the Blender Foundation, with the help of other organizations and crowdfunding, released several short films showcasing Blender’s capabilities. The foundation used these film productions to make improvements to the software. Let’s …

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Building The Shot: The Techniques of Cinematography

Cinematography is one of the most important aspects of filmmaking, and if you have spent your time watching or trying to learn about film and its different production departments, you may have already encountered this word, as well as what it entails. In this article, I want to take a deeper dive into cinematography techniques used in contemporary film and …

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Directors and Cinematographers: Can One Become The Other?

Directors and cinematographers (or directors of photography) are two of the most important roles in filmmaking. Usually, it’s directors who get the most credit for realizing a film’s vision and concept, but both are actually very important, even if their tasks are significantly different in many aspects. Oftentimes, when we talk about the different roles people take in film production, …