At Lights Online Film School we teach our students that it’s equally as important to know how to use shadow as it is to know how to use light. Shadows serve many purposes and come in an assortment of stylistic designs to support a filmmakers creative vision. A vignette is one of those lighting designs. [...]
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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 [...]
How to Create Film and Documentary Trailers
Creating a trailer for your documentary or film is a great way to expose your story to the world. Essentially a trailer is a short montage of the text, audio and visual components of your film that act as an advertisement for the longer format version. This usually means that the most exciting footage is [...]
Great Example of Video Editing
The following short animation acts as a great editing example for filmmakers who struggle with both video and sound editing as well as the pacing of their films. Even though this short film is an animation, the editing principles are valid to films shot in any medium. The dramatic theme of the film requires a [...]
