Lights Film School Blog

Moby: $5000 Music Video Competition

Moby, who has been incredibly helpful and genourous with independent filmmakers has just released a new competition starting today. He is looking for music video directors to direct and shoot the new music video for his song "Wait For Me". The competition starts today Febuary 22nd and goes until April 5th. In his press release Moby states: the videos from the album 'wait for me' have all been made by friends of mine who were given complete creative control. the video for the song 'wait for me' ...

Still Space Available for Free Screenwriting Classes

This is just a friendly reminder to our blog readers that there is still space available in our free online screenwriting courses. These individual screenwriting classes will be held online in two hour durations and will cover topics ranging from character development, story arch, writing for small budget productions, how to incorporate action, atmosphere, building tension, beginnings and endings and of course what screenwriting course would be complete without a class on proper screenplay forma...

Free: Live Screenwriting Courses

Lights Film School is currently testing live screenwriting lectures for our students.  We've also decided to offer 50 non students the opportunity to partake in these lectures for free! We will allow a small number of non-students to enroll in each of these live online courses. If you're interested please email us at info@lightsfilmschool.com with the following information: 1. Type "Lab Chats" in your subject line 2. In the body of the email let us know a little more about yourself and yo...

Subtitle Fonts & Sizes

If you’re starting the process of adding subtitles to your film you’ll need to take into consideration font styles, spacing, font color and font size. There are certain fonts that lend themselves well to web design, others that work better in print and others that are optimal for use against dynamic content such as moving images. While web fonts such as Tahoma, Verdana and Georgia are great for use in web media, they were designed to work well in static design environments where the backgr...