He made $1000 from a film on his iPhone!

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What I’ve been working on

This week I went up to Eastbourne and then to the top of Beachy Head, a cliff in the south of England to take some shots. It was very windy and cold but we ended up with a few good shots.

Short Film of the week

This week is a slightly older film from October 2019. The film is called ‘There Comes a Knocking’ and is a horror short film. The film was written and directed by Ryan Connolly, an American Filmmaker who runs the YouTube channel Film Riot. The film was a short film concept to hopefully be made into a feature film in the future. You can watch the film by clicking the image above. There is also a really insightful behind-the-scenes video that you can watch here.

Educational Film of the week

The YouTube video by Ryan Ng Films called ‘Can I Sell This CINEMATIC iPhone COMMERCIAL For $1,000?’ is an interesting look into Ryan’s life. He had a dream of building an entertainment company since he was in high school. This video tells the story of how he started his film business. As he puts it in the description of his video, ‘For the last month and a half I tried to earn $1,000 selling and making cinematic iPhone Commercials / Product Videos on my phone. What started out as a straightforward path to making some money with just an iPhone, spiraled into a huge learning lesson. Do you think I can sell these cinematic iPhone commercials for $1,000?’ If you want to watch the video click the image above.

The blog post of the week

I’ve always found understanding Frame Rates to be hard, so this blog post from Artlist really helped me to understand how it all works. As Artlist put it ‘Frame rate, which you will also hear referred to as ‘frames per second’ or ‘fps’ and maybe even ‘framerate’, means how many frames your camera records each second to create a motion picture. After all, a moving picture is just a series of still images played quickly in succession. When a video is displayed on a screen, the speed at which it is played is also known as the frame rate. For footage to appear ‘normal’, capture and playback frame rates should be the same.’ You can read the full article by clicking the image above.

Free Stuff

I believe that assets are a great place to get started when making a film. When I see a muzzle flash or hear a cool sound effect, concepts come to me for new films, for this week’s free stuff, I’ve left a link to an article by Video & Filmmaker. Here you’ll find links to free filmmaking resource materials. They’ve scoured the interwebs looking for free-to-use sound FX, templates, software, stock footage, presets, and a host of other items beneficial for the micro-budget filmmaker. So start your downloads by clicking the image above.

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