Beginner Editing
Peter tells you all the little things he knows about how to properly cut your footage together. He’ll ramble about stuff like “leading the viewer’s eye”…
Focusing Your Camera
In our second Quick Tip episode, we show you how to properly set the focus in your camera, because sometimes it’s hard…
Lighting #2
We cover the topic of lighting, again, because lighting is and always will be an expansive area. We begin by describing the reasons why proper lighting…
TZ05a – Short Film "Two Years Ago"
Here is the short film (5:16) we made for Episode 05. The story is paper thin, as it was written in under forty minutes. Storyboarding took an hour…
Camera Stabilization Equipment
In this episode, we dive into the expensive, or, at the least, tedious realm of camera stabilization equipment. This ranges from the all-powerful…
Basic Composition in a Single Camera Setup
We apologize for the late episode, but Memorial Day weekend had us pretty busy. Without further delay, in this episode we discuss the differences between…
Quick White Balancing
We didn’t have time to film a short, and so here is a quick tip. This was a tip that we learned for photography at Tips From the Top Floor. It works…
How to make a movie in 10 easy steps
In this episode, we’ll go over the very basic steps to make your own small movie…
Widescreen vs. Full and 24 fps
In our very first episode, Peter and I talk about why using widescreen and 24 frames per second for movies is ideal…
