Filmmaking tutorials

Digital Juice has some very good tutorials on its site about how to shoot and edit properly. There are a number of new things I learned by watching their videos, and the most recent one is “record 1 minute of ambient noise before you start shooting in a location”. Their video tutorials are highly recommended, and they offer MP4 downloadable versions too. To save you time, out of about 200 videos, I have put together for you the most practical & important ones — in my opinion.

Lighting Setup

- Lighting tips, also available in text form.
- Lighting Backgrounds
- Shadow lighting

Audio Recording

- Sound Advice
- Getting rid of the 60Hz hum
- Preventing Plosives

Video Shooting

- Creative Camerawork
- DoF & focusing
- Framing
- White Balance
- Shooting interviews
- The warehouse
- Shooting to edit
- Steady shooting
- Green screen shooting

Video Editing

- Continuity cutting
- Color correction
- On transitions
- The Cut
- Deleting scenes
- Time effects
- Compositing intro
- Compositing, Advanced
- Green screen editing

Audio Editing

- How to select music score
- Cleaning up audio
- Fixing bad audio
- Dubbing bad audio
- Audio effects

5 Comments »

DrTom wrote on December 4th, 2008 at 4:27 AM PST:

Eugenia, thank you so much for this list of links. I’ve listened to several and picked up a tip here and there. Very nice. Thanks again.


John Waterman wrote on December 4th, 2008 at 12:47 PM PST:

This material is great Eugenia. Thank you for assembling and posting it


Jorge wrote on December 4th, 2008 at 2:30 PM PST:

Thanks Eugenia for summarizing all these nice clips from DJTV.


blacksnoopy wrote on December 5th, 2008 at 2:35 AM PST:

Thank you!


Dries Desmet wrote on December 8th, 2008 at 2:04 AM PST:

Thanks. I have a silent reader of your blog for months now. Even though I consider myself a video professional, it is rewarding to read your posts.


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