Yes, low budget animated short films do exist. It doesn’t take a professional studio to make animation. It does take imagination, some tech tools, some fine motor skills, and some labor. And a healthy amount of planning. Most animated films are developed from storyboards. The director directs the animators from the page, instead …
Testimonials from teachers who have used or are planning to use “26 Short Screenplays for Independent Filmmakers” in film, TV production, and other classes. I would like to give my students the option of using the screenplays as they are or as a jumping off point for their own scripts …
That’s right. You heard it here first. Students in Yorktown Heights, NY, are soon to get an education in digital production, screenwriting, visual storytelling, copyright issues and creative commons licensing for digital content, much more! All packed into one book: ‘26 Short Screenplays for Independent Filmmakers‘. Specifically, the book will be …
OK, you’re looking for short film ideas. Maybe you’re just looking for good loglines, a premise from which you will write your own film screenplay. Just a few lines of description and that’s all you need to get started, right? Ideas for a short film: my list of log lines. Use …
To run good rehearsals and not drive everyone (especially yourself) crazy, a storyboard helps you figure out how you want to film before showing up to shoot. When do you really need a storyboard to plan and direct a short film? Probably the best way to answer that is to explain …
As frequent readers of this blog will know, I’ve got a book length collection of short screenplays for short films. People ask me from time to time, “What kinds of film genres and scenarios do your short scripts include?” Here is the exhaustive (and somewhat annotated) list. The links take you to blog …