Lighting in Post

Didn't quite match the lighting between your close ups and wide shots?

Was your lighting rushed and just not dramatic at all?

Did you shoot in front of a green/blue screen and now you need to match the lighting of the background?

Have no fear, digital post production is here!

On Jack vs Lanterns (still in production) because we used a lot of "out of town" talent and had some issues on set, like weather, flakey cast and no crew to speak of, lighting was often a bit rushed.  This is one of the places where my usual "I like to do things the old fashioned way" approach has to get tossed aside so that I can get the look I want.

More "Inside HFP" videos coming soon.

Radios on Set

Do you rely on cell phones to communicate on set?  I'm old school.  I still like to use radios when I can.  Here is why.

Shoots of Opportunity

If you were suddenly offered a space to film in, with little time to prepare (say 24-48 hours) and little time to use it ( another day or two), would you be able to make something happen on camera to take advantage of the freebie?

This type of thing, free or cheap locations, can happen.  They come around seasonally when businesses are slow, or if friends travel.  A prop, actor or some other thing you'd really like to work may suddenly present itself and you want to be ready.

I recently had this happen.  As filmmakers, most of us are ready on the "lights, camera" side of thing and we may even have the "action" down in terms of having a dozen script ideas sitting in a file or swimming around in our heads at any given time, but what else will we need?

Well, I found that having props on hand, having a knowledge of what could be bought cheaply and quickly, who I may or may not be able to work with locally (I need to work on this one more) and having a few basic costumes to choose from really helped pull it all together.

Here is a video about how this sort of came about.

The Return of Inside HFP

Over the past  year I've been Vlogging more than Blogging.
Rather than rewrite all of those here, I thought I'd start posting some of the videos as embeds.
They'll be coming pretty quickly since there's a bit of a backlog.

Quite a few deal with publishing to Amazon Video Direct.

I hope they're helpful.

For now, we'll start with  my mistakes.