Lights Film School Blog

How many minutes / pages can you expect to shoot per day?

On a typical production, you can expect to shoot about 5 pages of script per day. This means you’ll be working day and night to set up and shoot about 5 minutes of final product footage. Following this logic it will take you 18 – 30 days of shooting time for a feature length film (depending on how many pages you’re shooting / day and how long your script is). Even 5 pages / day is considered ambitious on most film sets. Usually people that work in the film business laugh at the production sc...

How to Create a Music Video

If you are a musician or a director and you’re looking to get into shooting music videos there are a few important lessons you should learn before you pick up a camera and start recording. For starters music videos are generally more non-linear than many film and television productions. The moving images are loosely tied together with sometimes nothing more than  a “mood”. Therefore it’s important that you know what the mood of your video is going to be. This will be set according to many fac...