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Music Videos & the Importance of Pre-Production
Lights Film School Online recently talked with Grant James, the founder of Granted Productions, about running his independent production company. Our interview, along with some of Grant’s work, can be...
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Daily Inspiration: Woodkid – Run Boy Run
Here is today’s daily video inspiration. A music video by Woodkid entitled “Run Boy Run”. The video is directed by Yoann Lemoine.
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Beautiful Branded Short Film – Shot on the Canon 7D & 5D
Lights Film School Online recently had the opportunity to chat with Ash Bolland, the filmmaker behind the popular skate video “Burn”. The interview along with the short film can be seen below. Hello...
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Best Video Camera 2012
In this article we’ll discuss some of the most interesting camera choices available to filmmakers in 2012. In our online cinematography lab chats there is never a shortage of questions relating to...
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5 Successful DSLR Feature Films
Image taken from “Diamond Flash” The word “success” means different things to different people. So in this blog post we’ve showcased 5 different feature films (and one documentary) that were shot on...
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Cinematic Short Film Shot on Canon 5D Mark II
Lights Film School Online was recently fortunate enough to interview Christian Cavazos who shot the short film entitled “Nuevo Mexico” on the Canon 5D Mark II. The result is an impressively cinematic...
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TUB Short Film: Filmmakers Who Are Too Hard on Themselves
Lights Film School Online recently interviewed Bobby Miller, the filmmaker behind the unusual short film TUB. Below you’ll find his 12 minute short film along with our interview. What a unique short...
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How to Use A Shoulder Rig: Filmmaking Tutorial
Visit Cinemecanix to learn more about their shoulder rigs We’ve also written another article about the best shoulder mounts for DSLR cameras. TRANSCRIPT: Hello and welcome to the Lights Film School...
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How to Storyboard for Indie Films
Lights Film School Online recently had the opportunity to interview Giuseppe “Peppe” Cristiano, a professional storyboard artist currently living in Stockhom (Sweden). Giuseppe has numberous storyboard...
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Sundance Award Winning Short Film: Soft
Lights Film School Online recently chatted with Simon Ellis, the director of the award winning Sundance film entitled “Soft”. You can watch his 14 minute film and read our interview below. Enjoy!...
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Lights Film School Student Interview
Lights Online Film School recently had the opportunity to chat with one of our own award winning students, director Jason Forge, about his work as a filmmaker. We’ve posted 2 of Jason’s more recent...
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Screenwriting Formulas: Templates, Structure & The Rasa Approach
Lights Online Film School was recently fortunate enough to be in contact with Ashwini Malik who is a Mumbai-based independent filmmaker, screenwriter, screenwriting teacher and script consultant. His...
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How to Get More Video Views
Lights Online Film School is currently creating our newest eCourse and we want to give it to our blog readers for free! Our new video promotion eCourse is designed to help filmmakers learn how to run...
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Being a Director is More of a State of Mind Than a Profession
Lights Online Film School was recently lucky enough to be able to chat with director Tomek Goldbaum-Wlazinski about his music video “Melt” for KAMP. Let’s start by watching his breathtaking music...
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Starting Your Own Production Company
Hello Ryan and thank you for speaking with the Lights Online Film School – Music Video Department about your film production company Lucky Branded Entertainment based out of NYC. Many of our readers...
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How I Made My First Feature Film
Lights Online Film School recently had the opportunity to interview one of our newest students, Josh Beck, about his debut feature film entitled EVER. You can watch the teaser trailer for the film and...
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Dance Film: Sparked By a Flashlight
Lights Online Film School recently interviewed filmmakers Michael Langan and Terah Maher about their film “Choros”. Michael is an experimental filmmaker who had his film “Doxology” nominated for a...
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Shooting Commercials Using Available Light: It’s Just a Matter of Finding the...
Lights Online Film School was recently fortunate enough to have the opportunity to chat with Camille Marotte about his work in the commercial field. Many of you will be familiar with his work, as his...
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To: Actors. From: Filmmakers.
Lights Online Film School has recently compiled a list of many of the casting ideas that have been shared with us by our filmmaking students, teachers as well as the filmmakers who we’ve profiled on...
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12 O’Clock Boys – Bikes vs. Police
Today Lights Online Film School was lucky enough to chat with Lotfy Nathan, a New York based filmmaker, who recently completed his first feature film, a documentary entitled “12 O’Clock Boys” (see...
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