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You can see this when you watch the credits at the end of a mainstream film: The credits seem to go on for ages at the end of a film as they thank all the people involved, from the actors to the technical crews to the costume designers.</p>\n<p>Here some of the main roles in making a film:</p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Writer</b></td>\n<td>The person who writes the story and script for filming. The<br />\nwriter is really involved at the start of the filmmaking process,<br />\nbut, occasionally, they might be invited to be on set when<br />\nfilming.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Executive producer</b></td>\n<td>The person who provides the money and support to make the film.<br />\nFilms cost a lot of money, so without executive producers, many<br />\nfilms wouldn’t be made.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Producer</b></td>\n<td>The person responsible for organizing the production and<br />\nfilming from start to finish. 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They also<br />\nhelp to refine the story and script before filming, and they review the<br />\nedits during post production.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Assistant director</b></td>\n<td>The person who works with the director to organize the crew and<br />\nactors and to make sure everything is running smoothly during<br />\nfilming.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Director of photography</b></td>\n<td>The person who works with the camera and lighting crews to make<br />\nthe shots look great. They also work with the director to decide on<br />\nwhat types of shots to use. Sometimes the director of photography<br />\ncan be the camera operator on smaller productions.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Location scout</b></td>\n<td>The person who decides on the locations to use for each scene<br />\nbefore filming. They spend a lot of time travelling around looking<br />\nat potential locations for films.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Casting director</b></td>\n<td>The person who auditions the actors to play the characters in<br />\nthe film. They have to sit through a lot of auditions to make sure the person they choose for a role in a film is the right<br />\none.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Camera operator</b></td>\n<td>The camera operator is responsible for filming and setting up<br />\nthe camera shots for each scene.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Boom operator/sound mixer</b></td>\n<td>The person responsible for holding the microphone and recording<br />\nsound on set. The boom operator also monitors the sound during<br />\nfilming to check for volume levels and any sound issues or<br />\nbackground noises.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Gaffer</b></td>\n<td>Gaffers work with the director of photography or camera<br />\noperator to set up lighting for each scene.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Key grip</b></td>\n<td>Key grips are responsible for much of the equipment used in<br />\nfilming, including tripods, dollies, cranes, lighting, and so<br />\non.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Props master</b></td>\n<td>The person responsible for finding props needed for each scene.<br />\nSome props need to be designed and built for a scene and others can<br />\nbe bought.</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Makeup and hair</b></td>\n<td>The person responsible for actors’ makeup and hair on the<br />\nset. 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After all, even the most confident person can become shy when a camera is pointed at them.</p>\n<p>Auditions can also be good experience for the actors, especially if acting is something they want to do as a career.</p>\n<p>The following list describes some things to look for in the actors you meet when running auditions.</p>\n<ul class=\"level-one\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>How do they deal with stress?</b> It’s not unusual for actors to get nervous. It’s how they deal with that problem on-camera that’s important. Can they hide their nerves? Do the nerves affect their performance? Do they look like a stunned rabbit in headlights? Give them time to relax by telling them about what will happen in the audition and a bit about the production if you want. Here, you can see how they listen and if they are interested in what you are telling them.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Are they natural? </b>When an actor is performing, does it look and feel real? 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The last thing you want is an actor who thinks they know better than you and does whatever they want. During the audition, ask your actors to change something about the way they deliver their performance. See whether they do what you ask (or whether they at least try). You could ask them to pause before saying a line or change the amount of emotion in a line — for example, ask the actor to “be more angry,” or “be less cheerful.”</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>How does the actor work with other actors? </b>It’s important that your actors be able to work well both on their own and with other actors. The only way to test this in an audition is to have the actor act a scene with another actor in the audition. Look to see whether the actor responds to what the other actor is doing in the scene. Do they overpower the other actor or do they support them?</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Has the actor learned the lines? </b>If you asked the actor to learn a scene or part of the script for the audition, they should have taken the time to learn it. This shows whether they are committed to your film and is a reflection of how much they want the part. You could allow them to have the script on hand to refer to, if necessary. But, sometimes, a script can be more of a distraction than a support — if it’s there, they’ll look at it. Ask the actor if they&#8217;re okay working without a script before taking it away.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>What does the actor know about the character? </b>Knowing some background about the role shows enthusiasm and a real desire to get the part. As part of your audition process, ask the actor questions about the character and what they know about the film. 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Voice-over demos fall into four main categories, each having their own purpose, style of performance, intended audience.</p>\n<ul class=\"level-one\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Commercial:</b> These demos last 60 to 90 seconds, and they’re usually a montage of four to five snippets from radio and television ads. They should highlight a full range of emotions, selling styles, moods, and characters.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Narration:</b> These demos last 60 seconds to five minutes, and they usually are a read excerpt that gives your listener a taste of the narrator’s style. With this type of demo, you want to demonstrate your ability with narration, characterization, and consistency in tone and pace.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Animation:</b> These demos last one to two minutes that demonstrate a wide range of characters. 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The following tips can help you to more fully understand what the writer intended and better inform your read:</p>\n<ul class=\"level-one\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Know your character.</b> Find out all you can about your character in order to give the most believable performance, which includes how old your character is, what motivates your character, your character’s priorities, and so on.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Know your audience.</b> To whom are you speaking? Every good voice actor has a clear idea of who his or her target audience is and why what he or she is saying is meaningful to the listener.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Research the location and its environment.</b> Setting the scene is important. Find out details that can support your interpretation of the script, including accents if required and ambient sounds.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Be sensitive to context.</b> Take in the full picture before you decide how you’ll read a script. Everything is connected to each other, including characters. Understanding the entire script is crucial to delivering an informed read.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Visualize the location, your surroundings, and your character.</b> Imagine where your character is, what’s going on around him or her, and how the character fits into the story. You may want to use photographs as a visual guide or inspiration for painting pictures with your words.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Listen to music of the time period.</b> Are you looking for another way to gain insight into the world your character lives in? If you have a date or an era to reference, try to locate music of that time and immerse yourself in what may be the soundtrack of their life.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Identify your character’s contemporaries, whether real or imagined.</b> When creating a character, understanding who your character chooses to surround him or herself with tells you a lot about your character as a person. If your character lived sometime in the past, research people who lived at that time to get a clearer picture of who your character is and how he or she related to contemporaries.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Practice speaking in character when talking to other people.</b> Are you able to speak as your character, even when you’re not reading from a script? Conversing as your character with others is a good test of how well you know your character, how he or she would say things, and what makes him or her tick.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Know how the story ends before you get there.</b> There’s nothing worse than a narrator who is just as surprised as his or her audience. Reading the full script through before recording can ensure that you aren’t caught by surprise, and you can create a better overall performance.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n"},{"title":"Creative ways to market yourself as a voice actor","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>If you feel like your efforts aren’t hitting the mark or are irregular at best, you can get proactive. You can build your roster of clients in several ways in addition to just auditioning. Although responding to casting calls is an important part of the job, so is marketing.</p>\n<p class=\"Remember\">Creating a well-defined marketing plan can help you build a client base faster than auditioning alone. Here are 20 marketing ideas to help you get your voice acting career jumping.</p>\n<ul class=\"level-one\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Logos:</b> Develop your own logo and become memorable before people even hear your voice.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Business cards: </b>Create some business cards. They won’t do you any good just sitting in your wallet though. Hand them out everywhere! You never know who your waitress knows or who is visiting the dentist that day.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Branded letterhead: </b>If you’re mailing demos to potential clients, write a brief cover letter using branded letterhead.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Demo stickers: </b>Use demo stickers that contain your contact details and logo.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Thank you cards:</b> People still love the personal touch of a handwritten thank you card. This kind of gesture is the kind of thing that helps to develop strong business relationships.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Postcards or pamphlets:</b> Mail businesses a post card or pamphlet to introduce yourself and your services explaining how you can help them.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Blogging</b> If you enjoy writing and can do it consistently, blogging can be an effective way to build a following and increase your presence on the web.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Meet-up groups:</b> Starting or joining a monthly meet-up group is a great way to network with peers and get referral business.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Social media groups:</b> Become active on social media groups geared toward voice-over or start one yourself. Try creating a group geared toward a voice-over niche, such as video game voices or cartoon voices.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Personal website: </b>Having a personal website in addition to a profile on a voice acting marketplace site can increase your presence online even more. The more web presences you have, the more likely a client is to come across you while searching for talent.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Professional associations:</b> Receiving accreditation from a voice-over association can help you be perceived as a professional voice actor and give you exclusive training and networking opportunities.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Generate publicity:</b> Everyone has a story! Try pitching yours to magazines and newspapers to generate publicity for your business.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Send client swag: </b><i>Swag</i> refers to useful items you can send to clients that are branded with your company logo, such as mugs, magnets, pens, and so on.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Sponsor an event:</b> If you can swing it, sponsoring an event is a great was to generate some publicity and make yourself known within your community.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Traditional advertising:</b> Place an ad in your local newspaper, trade magazine, or phonebook.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Cold Call:</b> If you have the personality for it, try cold calling local businesses and introduce yourself. 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Here are some of the more common playwriting terms:</p>\n<ul class=\"level-one\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Protagonist:</b> The main character of your story; the character with a mission</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Antagonist:</b> A character or thing that stands in your protagonist’s way</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Conflict:</b> The opposing objectives of your protagonist and antagonist</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Arc, spine, or through-line:</b> The story line; what the audience is waiting to find out</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Stakes:</b> What the characters stand to gain or lose if they succeed or fail</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Inciting incident:</b> The event that launches the protagonist and gets the plot going</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Backstory:</b> Events that have taken place in the past</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Exposition:</b> The motivated revelation of the backstory through dialogue</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Actions:</b> Things said or done by the characters to achieve their objectives</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Rising action:</b> The protagonist’s uphill journey, alternating gains and setbacks</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Climax:</b> The final confrontation between the protagonist and the antagonist</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Resolution:</b> The aftermath of the climax; how the dust settles</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n"},{"title":"Putting lifelike characters on stage","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>The characters in your play must be fully developed, as close to real people as you can make them. The keys to creating believable characters are <i>details</i> and <i>specificity.</i> If you know your characters as well as you know your best friends, you’re more likely to know what they will do under the circumstances of your play.</p>\n<p>So, write mini-biographies of all your characters. The time you invest in doing this will pay off later. Here are some of the things you should know about all of your characters and why:</p>\n<ul class=\"level-one\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Parents and childhood:</b> Parents, even absent ones, have a profound influence on their kids. Also, a person&#8217;s childhood impacts their adulthood in many ways.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Siblings:</b> Relationships later in life can be influenced by experiences with siblings.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Schooling:</b> Education, or the lack of it, can influence a person’s daily life.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Work:</b> People often measure themselves by their work and earnings.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Relationships:</b> People who are married or in committed relationships usually behave and think differently than single folks.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Religion:</b> People’s choices and behaviors can be powerfully influenced by religion.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Politics:</b> Political beliefs can strongly affect what that person chooses to do.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n"},{"title":"Making character dialogue sound natural","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>Dialogue is the primary and most important component in playwriting. The principal purpose of dialogue is to advance the action of the play. Though dialogue sounds like natural conversation, every word of dialogue you write for a character — whether it reveals his aspirations, frustrations, motivations, or intentions — should be crafted to help him achieve his objective.</p>\n<p>Here are some of the dos and don’ts of dialogue:</p>\n<ul class=\"level-one\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Use the “rule of three” for important info.</b> If the audience needs to know and remember some bit of information in order to understand what’s going on, repeat that information three times in different ways to cement it in the minds of audiences.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Characters shouldn’t, you know, talk perfectly.</b> In life, people don’t speak perfect English when they converse. Listen to how people speak and try to recreate realistic-sounding speech patterns, flaws and all.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Avoid using clichés in dialogue.</b> Not to “beat a dead horse,” but clichés make dialogue sound dull and uninspired.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Don’t overuse character names in dialogue.</b> People don’t address each other by name in every sentence they speak, because it sounds silly. <i>(Mary, you look great. Thank you, Tom. Do you want watch a movie, Mary? Yes, Tom.)</i> Use character names in dialogue early and then sparingly.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>The beginning of a line shouldn’t echo the end of the prior line.</b> The dialogue of one character need not repeat what was said by the other.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Avoid dialogue that’s really speechifying.</b> Avoid having characters speak lines and lines of dialogue without interruption. In life, people usually alternate sentences in conversation, even cutting in on each other. Try to capture the rhythm of real speech.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Keep your agenda out of the dialogue.</b> Let the theme of your play be conveyed by events, not dialogue. If you have to tell the audience what the point of your play is, then the play probably isn’t working as well as it should.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Avoid phonetically spelling out accents and dialects.</b> Just spell the words normally and make sure you cast an actor who can speak with a Spanish accent, for example.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n"},{"title":"How to start your play","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>The opening of your play needs to grab the audience; otherwise the battle is lost before it begins. Following, are some of the elements of a strong start:</p>\n<ul class=\"level-one\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Start your play as far into the story as possible.</b> Pick a <i>point of attack </i>(opening scenario) that’s well into the story, just before the inciting incident.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Upset the status quo.</b> Be sure that something happens early on (the <i>inciting incident</i>) to upset the world of your protagonist, launching her on a mission to set things right.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Give your protagonist a critical mission.</b> The audience will get behind your protagonist if what your protagonist is after — the goal— is urgent, important, and crystal clear to the audience.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Be sure that the antagonist provides strong obstacles.</b> The more even the battle, the greater the suspense.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Get the backstory in.</b> Throughout the play, when it’s necessary to do so, gradually weave into the dialogue the <i>backstory,</i> relevant events that happened before the start of the play.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n"},{"title":"How to end your play","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>One of your responsibilities as playwright is to deliver a satisfying end to the play. You don’t necessarily have to write a happy ending or even an ending audiences would have wanted. You need an ending that seems truthful, plausible (given the circumstances), and, in retrospect, maybe even inevitable.</p>\n<p>Use the following tips to build to and execute a satisfying ending:</p>\n<ul class=\"level-one\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Make the obstacles tougher and tougher.</b> Be sure the setbacks your protagonist has to deal with are not easy and that they get tougher as the story progresses.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Create a cause and effect structure.</b> Each moment and scene should lead to the next. 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Audiences don’t like this “cheat.” They expect the protagonist to find (or not find) their own way out of the situation.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><b>Tie up loose ends in the resolution.</b> The resolution, which comes just before the curtain falls, provides the opportunity for the audience to see the landscape in the world of the play after the climactic storm, big or small. 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In fact, the country is scattered with several film industries combining to produce anywhere from 1,500 to 2,000 films a year. Historically speaking, each industry has cultivated talents and influences that gained notoriety in their native cinemas prior to making their way into Bollywood. Here are some of the cinema names and nicknames you may encounter:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bollywood:</strong> The Hindi language film industry based in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay). In fact, that’s how it gets its name: Bombay + Hollywood = Bollywood. 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The film’s featured actors lip synch the songs during the movie.</li>\n<li><strong>Music director</strong>: The musical supervisor is in charge of composing the film’s score as well as assembling the singers, lyricists, and musicians.</li>\n<li><strong>Choreographer:</strong> The person who composes the dance routines for the songs in a Bollywood film.</li>\n</ul>\n"},{"title":"A Feel for All Things Bollywood: Desi Standard Time Podcast","thumb":null,"image":null,"content":"<p>This esteemed podcast, <em><a href=\"http://www.desistandardtime.com/\">Desi Standard Time</a>,</em> by Maaz Ali, Maaz Khan, and Anum Hussain has two hip-thrusting seasons that cover all things related to South Asian media and entertainment with each episode focusing on the trends and influences embedded in film, TV, music, and dance. The following list serves as a referral guide for the first two seasons: Season One on Bollywood and Season Two on Pakistan.</p>\n<h3>Season One: Bollywood</h3>\n<p>Covering all things Bollywood, the first season of the podcast takes a critical look at trends in Bollywood, where they come from, and how they affect the industry’s viewers.</p>\n<h4>Dance</h4>\n<ul>\n<li>“<a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7346483-we-are-hip\">We Are Hip</a>” (Episode 1): This episode zeroes in on the pelvic thrust and other memorable dance trends of 1990s Bollywood.</li>\n<li>“<a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7352409-kitne-door-kitne-paas\">Kitne Door, Kitne Paas</a>” (So Far, Yet So Close, Episode 2): It touches on the stars that grew popular solely from their looks and epic dance moves.</li>\n</ul>\n<h4>Music</h4>\n<ul>\n<li>“<a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7363905-angrezi-babu\">Angrezi Babu</a>” (English Man, Episode 4): This episode focuses on the highs and lows of the English language usage in Bollywood dialogues and songs.</li>\n<li>“<a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7396236-sa-re-ga-ma-az-pa\">Sa Re Ga Ma(az) Pa</a>” (Initial Four Notes of Indian Music, Episode 9): This takes a deep dive into the history of Hindi Film soundtracks.</li>\n</ul>\n<h4>Film and Culture</h4>\n<ul>\n<li>“<a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7371002-konflikt-with-karan\">Konflikt with Karan</a>” (Episode 5): This episode dissects one of Bollywood’s most infamous directors and personalities, Karan Johar.</li>\n<li>“<a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7377520-aankh-marey\">Aankh Marey</a>” (Wink, Episode 6): Eyes, eyes, and more eyes. Find out about the best staredowns, sexy winks, twitches, and why they’re so memorable and particular to Indian cinema.</li>\n<li>“<a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7383921-genre-samjha-karo\">Genre Samjha Karo</a>” (Understand the Genre, Episode 7): This episode addresses the films that attempted to break boundaries and present new kinds of Bollywood movies.</li>\n<li>“The Rise and Fall of King Khan” <a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7402441-the-rise-and-fall-of-king-khan-p-i\">Part 1</a> and <a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7408710-the-rise-and-fall-of-king-khan-p-ii\">Part 2</a> (Episodes 10 and 11): These episodes discuss the biggest star in Bollywood history, Shah Rukh Khan, and the highs and lows of his career.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Season Two: Pakistan</h3>\n<p>Season Two of the podcast examines India’s neighbor Pakistan and the wealth of media produced there. From music to TV to film, this season takes a look at all things Pakistani media and how they inevitably influence other industries of the world, particularly Bollywood.</p>\n<h4>Music</h4>\n<ul>\n<li>“<a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7688223-coca-cola-tuuu\">Coca Cola Tuuu</a>” (Episode 3): Find out about Pakistan’s premiere music television series Coke Studio and its global impact, plus a bonus interview with one of its premiere stars, Ali Sethi.</li>\n<li>“<a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7698722-rock-on-pakistan\">Rock On, Pakistan</a>” (Episode 5): Discover more about the origins and history of rock and roll in Pakistan.</li>\n<li>“<a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7714696-ustad-ed-from-the-bottom\">USTAD-ed from the Bottom</a>” (Episode 6): This addresses the soulful and powerful medium that is qawwali music then, now, and forever.</li>\n<li>“<a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7719710-pop-kistan\">Pop-Kistan</a>” (Episode 7): This podcast focuses on the ever so POPular mainstream tunes of Pakistan.</li>\n<li>“<a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7731566-desi-poets-society\">Desi Poet’s Society</a>” (Episode 8): Listen about Pakistan’s rich poetry scene and how it was the genesis of songwriting in both Pakistan and Bollywood.</li>\n</ul>\n<h4>Film and TV</h4>\n<ul>\n<li><em>“</em><a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7672495-season-2-teaser-interview-with-producer-kamil-chima\"><em>Interview with Producer Kamil Chima</em></a><em>”</em> (Season 2 Teaser): The producer of the Oscar-nominated film <em>Laal Kabootar </em>(Red Pigeon) gives the lay of the land for Pakistani filmmaking.</li>\n<li><em>“</em><a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7676958-crossover-into-bollywood\"><em>Crossover into Bollywood</em></a><em>”</em> (Episode 1): Different Pakistani talent have made their way into the cinematic juggernaut of India, Bollywood.</li>\n<li><em>“</em><a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7682589-border?playlist_direction=forward\"><em>Border</em></a><em>” </em>(Episode 2): Listen to the interesting and often controversial depiction of Pakistanis in Bollywood films.</li>\n<li><em>“</em><a href=\"https://audioboom.com/posts/7693111-don-t-be-so-dramatic\"><em>Don’t Be So Dramatic</em></a><em>”</em> (Episode 4): Find out more about the wildly popular history of TV serials in Pakistan.</li>\n</ul>\n"}],"videoInfo":{"videoId":null,"name":null,"accountId":null,"playerId":null,"thumbnailUrl":null,"description":null,"uploadDate":null}},"sponsorship":{"sponsorshipPage":false,"backgroundImage":{"src":null,"width":0,"height":0},"brandingLine":"","brandingLink":"","brandingLogo":{"src":null,"width":0,"height":0}},"primaryLearningPath":"Explore","lifeExpectancy":"One year","lifeExpectancySetFrom":null,"dummiesForKids":"no","sponsoredContent":"no","adInfo":"","adPairKey":[]},"status":"publish","visibility":"public","articleId":284321},{"headers":{"creationTime":"2019-12-30T23:17:47+00:00","modifiedTime":"2019-12-30T23:17:47+00:00","timestamp":"2022-06-22T19:35:43+00:00"},"data":{"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Academics & The Arts","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33662"},"slug":"academics-the-arts","categoryId":33662},{"name":"Performing Arts","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33747"},"slug":"performing-arts","categoryId":33747},{"name":"Film","_links":{"self":"https://dummies-api.dummies.com/v2/categories/33749"},"slug":"film","categoryId":33749}],"title":"10 Tips for Shooting on Your Smartphone","strippedTitle":"10 tips for shooting on your smartphone","slug":"10-tips-for-shooting-on-your-smartphone","canonicalUrl":"","seo":{"metaDescription":"Learn how to use your smartphone to shoot a professional looking short movie, or even a full-length feature and how to use a selfie stick as a camera crane.","noIndex":0,"noFollow":0},"content":"Today’s smartphones are so sophisticated, and the technology so advanced, you can shoot a professional looking short movie, or even a full-length feature on your smartphone. Your phone probably shoots 4K broadcast quality images — something that many older expensive video cameras can’t even do.\r\n\r\nSome of the advantages to shooting with your smartphone include:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>You just point and shoot.</li>\r\n \t<li>You don’t have to fuss with bulky movie lenses.</li>\r\n \t<li>No manual F or T stops to deal with.</li>\r\n \t<li>No depth of field or focus headaches.</li>\r\n \t<li>No exposure issues.</li>\r\n \t<li>No need to lug around a heavy, bulky camera.</li>\r\n \t<li>Your phone is always with you — ready to capture that million-to-one encounter or shoot that on-the-spot great idea.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2 id=\"tab1\" >Shooting in Landscape</h2>\r\nThe first thing you have to remember is you’re shooting a movie, not a photo, not a selfie, and not something you’re just going to post to Facebook or Instagram. So, you now have to remember to turn your smartphone sideways. This is called <em>landscape mode</em>. The normal way you’re use to holding your phone is <em>profile mode</em>. Note that landscape mode resembles the dimensions of your 16x9 TV. Note also that when you watch YouTube videos or feature films on your smartphone, you turn it sideways for the image to fill the whole screen. If you don’t shoot your movie in landscape mode, you’ll have black bars on each side of the image, and your movie will not fill the entire screen. So, landscape, don’t profile!\r\n<p class=\"article-tips tip\">Always make sure your smartphone is charged and ready to go. Shooting video on your phone drains the battery faster than talking or listening to music on your phone.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2 id=\"tab2\" >Take Off with Airplane Mode</h2>\r\nYou’re moving in for the perfect shot, the actors embrace, and you’re capturing a priceless moment — <em>and</em> then your perfect shot is interrupted by your <em>phone ringing</em> — your camera is ringing<em>! “Cut! Hello? Hi mom, I’m busy, shooting my movie.”</em> It’s happened to me.\r\n\r\nGo into your phone settings and put your phone on <em>airplane mode</em>. All the functions of your phone will work except your shoot won’t be interrupted by another phone call or annoying text. You want your smartphone to be a 100-percent dedicated camera for your shoot, not a communications device.\r\n<h2 id=\"tab3\" >Steady as She Goes</h2>\r\nYour smartphone is already a sophisticated movie camera. Most smartphones have a built-in stabilizer to ensure steadier shots. Often, you can handhold your smartphone for many of your shots, especially moving or following shots.\r\n<h2 id=\"tab4\" >Steady as a Rock</h2>\r\nFor steady tripod shots, you can get special adapters for your phone that have a tripod mount, so you can attach the phone to a tripod for rock-solid shots or for smooth panning ones. You’ll find plenty of smartphone tripod adapters on Amazon for as low as $5.\r\n<h2 id=\"tab5\" >Shooting Format and Resolution</h2>\r\nBefore you start shooting with your smartphone, you need to go into your camera video settings. You will have a choice of resolution quality. Usually the options are 720, 1080 (2K) and 4K. I’m sure that 6K and up will soon be available for your phone. I recommend shooting on 720 or 2K because the quality is awesome and both resolutions are broadcast quality. If you shoot in 4K, you will very quickly eat up a lot of storage space on your phone. In the video settings, you should also have the choice of shooting at 30 frames per second or 24 frames per second. Choose 24fps for a more film-like look. A great smartphone app called Filmic Pro will add even more professional shooting options to your already advanced smartphone.\r\n<h2 id=\"tab6\" >Saving Your Movie Files</h2>\r\nDepending on your smartphone’s built-in storage capacity — or if your smartphone has a removable SD memory card — you will have to constantly offload (transfer) your shots to an external hard drive or your computer. If you don’t, your phone’s memory will soon fill up and you will have no more room to shoot anything.\r\n\r\nSome smartphones connect to your computer via USB and allow you to download your footage this way. An iPhone allows you to wirelessly download your footage from your phone using Airdrop. This allows you to easily and effortlessly download your footage, which then you can erase (trash) off your phone and continue shooting. There’s also a great (free) app called Simple Transfer, which is absolutely one of my favorite apps. It lets you view all your phone’s photos and movies on your computer desktop, and you can choose which shots you want to download from your phone to your computer in one batch — so you don’t have to transfer one shot at a time. I absolutely love this app so much it’s on my phone’s main home screen.\r\n\r\nMany smartphones are now synced up with the cloud, so, chances are, your smartphone footage will automatically download to your computer if both are talking to the cloud.\r\n<p class=\"article-tips warning\">I can’t emphasize this warning enough. If your phone is talking to the cloud and your footage is automatically downloaded to your computer, be absolutely sure to move those shots (digital video files) to a separate folder <em>outside your camera roll</em>. If you don’t, they will all get erased in the cloud when you erase them off your phone. They will also get erased off your computer and any other device that also talks to the cloud. This is one major flaw of syncing with the cloud — most people think they can trash stuff on their phone to free up memory because it was transferred to their computer and lives in the cloud, but in reality, your computer is talking to the cloud and unless you transfer it out of your camera roll into a folder on your desktop, you’ll lose everything.</p>\r\n<p class=\"article-tips remember\">All your movie files will be saved to your camera roll in your phone and filed under Videos. But move your movie shots out of the camera roll into a special folder that isn’t mirroring your camera roll in the cloud.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2 id=\"tab7\" >Miniature Camera Equipment</h2>\r\nThe great thing about your movie camera being your smartphone is that everything is light and portable. Your phone is also small enough to mount on a car dashboard or adhere to the car window (on the inside) for great single shots of your driver and passenger or a nice two shot from inside the windshield. Or, turn your phone around so it’s looking out your windshield for a nice POV (point-of-view) shot of the road.\r\n<p class=\"article-tips tip\">Use a selfie-stick as your camera crane for high shots or low to the ground shots. (See the following figure.) Cut a slot out of a paper cup to make a tripod to hold your phone — this also works great as a dolly, too — and just slide the cup along a desk top or the floor. Try furniture sliders to slide your smartphone along carpets or hardwood floors for smooth dolly shots.</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_266980\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"556\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-266980\" src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/filmmaking-selfie-stick.jpg\" alt=\"A selfie stick used as a camera crane\" width=\"556\" height=\"446\" /> Model: Honey Bear.<br /><br />A selfie stick used as a camera crane for the Smartphone. High and low shots.[/caption]\r\n\r\nIf you want professional-looking dolly shots, check out <a href=\"http://www.dynoequipment.com/\">Dyno Trek</a>. It’s a miniature, motorized dolly system (also called a <em>slider system</em>) built just for smartphones. It comes with tracks that magnetically hook together for flawless, smooth movement. You can dolly in and out and side to side, or turn the track vertically and get dolly-up and dolly-down shots. You can program the speed of the dolly and even set it up to move in sync with your smartphone for time-lapse shots or stop-motion animation. The kit is lightweight and portable and comes in a sturdy carry case.\r\n<p class=\"article-tips tip\">If you have an older smartphone that you put away after you bought the latest and greatest upgrade, it may be time to dust it off. Even though cellular service isn’t activated on your old phone, all its camera functions should be working fine. It’s really an iPod without cellular service. But you still have Wi-Fi!</p>\r\nThis old smartphone can be used as your action backup camera (make sure it’s not a big deal if this extra phone gets damaged or destroyed). Place it in the middle of a quiet neighborhood street and have your actor in a car drive over and past the camera. Just make sure he knows to keep the smartphone between the tires! Secure this “B” action camera on the outside of your car for some dramatic driving shots. You can even find a car suction cup mounting device for your smartphone on Amazon — or, just use lots of masking tape on the phone to secure it. (I recommend tying the phone down securely — just in case. The wind could catch it and send it flying!)\r\n\r\nThrow the phone in the air to a friend to simulate the POV of a ball being tossed back and forth. I recommend doing this on the grass in case one of you misses a catch.\r\n<h2 id=\"tab8\" >Use Several Smartphones to Capture Your Movie</h2>\r\nPretty much everyone on your crew (even if there’s just two of you) has a smartphone, so any one of these could be used as a second or third camera on your shoot. If you have two actors talking, you can save time by having one smartphone on each actor, instead of using one camera to shoot each actor separately. You can also use an extra smartphone for your wide shots, and another for close-ups (just don’t get the phones used for close-ups in the wide shot!)\r\n<p class=\"article-tips tip\">Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro was the catalyst for the creation of a new triple-camera system that allows users to shoot multiple different-size shots at the same time with just one smartphone camera. This iPhone has three different lenses: a telephoto lens, a wide lens, and an ultra-wide lens. Using a revolutionary app developed by Filmic Pro through the App Store, each lens can record its own file — thus creating three different-sized shots at one time. It’s like three cameras rolled into one smartphone. It’s also invaluable for documentaries and spur-of-the-moment events.</p>\r\nAnother ingenious advancement with the Filmic Pro app, is the ability to use the iPhone Pro 11 to shoot an interview in which both the interviewer and the interviewee are filmed at the same time. The app records footage from both the front and back camera at the same time and creates two separate digital files. So, you don’t have to have two separate cameras to shoot your interview! This unique technology is absolutely a game-changer for the independent filmmaker shooting with an iPhone and the Filmic Pro app!\r\n<p class=\"article-tips tip\">For more great tips and a fun book that converts into a smartphone projector with speakers, includes ticket stubs to your premiere, and even has popcorn boxes — check out my book, <em>Smartphone Movie Maker</em> at Amazon and other fine bookstores near you!</p>\r\n\r\n<h2 id=\"tab9\" >Great Sound on Your Smartphone Too!</h2>\r\nNot only can your smartphone shoot great, broadcast-quality digital images, but it also gives you pristine digital sound recording. To get the best of this, plug in a professional directional microphone. You don’t want to use your built-in smartphone microphone because it only picks up good sound close to the phone, or ambient sound from all around your environment. Some wireless sound options can record sound directly into your smartphone without the hassle of tripping over wires. <a href=\"http://www.rode.com/\">Røde</a> makes the Wireless GO, which is perfect as a wireless, compact microphone for your smartphone shoot.\r\n<h2 id=\"tab10\" >Your Smartphone Is an Entire Production Studio</h2>\r\nYour smartphone gives you a camera to shoot your movie, and it can give you great sound. But that’s not all. You pretty much have an entire production studio in your pocket! You can even write your screenplay on your smartphone with the Final Draft app for under $10. Storyboard on your phone with certain storyboard apps like Blocker by AfterNow (an absolutely amazing 3D app) and Storyboard Animator for free. You can create a shot list on your phone with an app called Shotlist – Movie Shoot Planning<em>.</em> You can also download stock footage and sound effects right to your phone. In post-production, edit your entire movie on smartphone apps like the free iPhone version of iMovie or a myriad of Android editing apps. And, when you’ve completed your movie, use your phone to upload it directly to YouTube or Vimeo!","description":"Today’s smartphones are so sophisticated, and the technology so advanced, you can shoot a professional looking short movie, or even a full-length feature on your smartphone. Your phone probably shoots 4K broadcast quality images — something that many older expensive video cameras can’t even do.\r\n\r\nSome of the advantages to shooting with your smartphone include:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>You just point and shoot.</li>\r\n \t<li>You don’t have to fuss with bulky movie lenses.</li>\r\n \t<li>No manual F or T stops to deal with.</li>\r\n \t<li>No depth of field or focus headaches.</li>\r\n \t<li>No exposure issues.</li>\r\n \t<li>No need to lug around a heavy, bulky camera.</li>\r\n \t<li>Your phone is always with you — ready to capture that million-to-one encounter or shoot that on-the-spot great idea.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2 id=\"tab1\" >Shooting in Landscape</h2>\r\nThe first thing you have to remember is you’re shooting a movie, not a photo, not a selfie, and not something you’re just going to post to Facebook or Instagram. So, you now have to remember to turn your smartphone sideways. This is called <em>landscape mode</em>. The normal way you’re use to holding your phone is <em>profile mode</em>. Note that landscape mode resembles the dimensions of your 16x9 TV. Note also that when you watch YouTube videos or feature films on your smartphone, you turn it sideways for the image to fill the whole screen. If you don’t shoot your movie in landscape mode, you’ll have black bars on each side of the image, and your movie will not fill the entire screen. So, landscape, don’t profile!\r\n<p class=\"article-tips tip\">Always make sure your smartphone is charged and ready to go. Shooting video on your phone drains the battery faster than talking or listening to music on your phone.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2 id=\"tab2\" >Take Off with Airplane Mode</h2>\r\nYou’re moving in for the perfect shot, the actors embrace, and you’re capturing a priceless moment — <em>and</em> then your perfect shot is interrupted by your <em>phone ringing</em> — your camera is ringing<em>! “Cut! Hello? Hi mom, I’m busy, shooting my movie.”</em> It’s happened to me.\r\n\r\nGo into your phone settings and put your phone on <em>airplane mode</em>. All the functions of your phone will work except your shoot won’t be interrupted by another phone call or annoying text. You want your smartphone to be a 100-percent dedicated camera for your shoot, not a communications device.\r\n<h2 id=\"tab3\" >Steady as She Goes</h2>\r\nYour smartphone is already a sophisticated movie camera. Most smartphones have a built-in stabilizer to ensure steadier shots. Often, you can handhold your smartphone for many of your shots, especially moving or following shots.\r\n<h2 id=\"tab4\" >Steady as a Rock</h2>\r\nFor steady tripod shots, you can get special adapters for your phone that have a tripod mount, so you can attach the phone to a tripod for rock-solid shots or for smooth panning ones. You’ll find plenty of smartphone tripod adapters on Amazon for as low as $5.\r\n<h2 id=\"tab5\" >Shooting Format and Resolution</h2>\r\nBefore you start shooting with your smartphone, you need to go into your camera video settings. You will have a choice of resolution quality. Usually the options are 720, 1080 (2K) and 4K. I’m sure that 6K and up will soon be available for your phone. I recommend shooting on 720 or 2K because the quality is awesome and both resolutions are broadcast quality. If you shoot in 4K, you will very quickly eat up a lot of storage space on your phone. In the video settings, you should also have the choice of shooting at 30 frames per second or 24 frames per second. Choose 24fps for a more film-like look. A great smartphone app called Filmic Pro will add even more professional shooting options to your already advanced smartphone.\r\n<h2 id=\"tab6\" >Saving Your Movie Files</h2>\r\nDepending on your smartphone’s built-in storage capacity — or if your smartphone has a removable SD memory card — you will have to constantly offload (transfer) your shots to an external hard drive or your computer. If you don’t, your phone’s memory will soon fill up and you will have no more room to shoot anything.\r\n\r\nSome smartphones connect to your computer via USB and allow you to download your footage this way. An iPhone allows you to wirelessly download your footage from your phone using Airdrop. This allows you to easily and effortlessly download your footage, which then you can erase (trash) off your phone and continue shooting. There’s also a great (free) app called Simple Transfer, which is absolutely one of my favorite apps. It lets you view all your phone’s photos and movies on your computer desktop, and you can choose which shots you want to download from your phone to your computer in one batch — so you don’t have to transfer one shot at a time. I absolutely love this app so much it’s on my phone’s main home screen.\r\n\r\nMany smartphones are now synced up with the cloud, so, chances are, your smartphone footage will automatically download to your computer if both are talking to the cloud.\r\n<p class=\"article-tips warning\">I can’t emphasize this warning enough. If your phone is talking to the cloud and your footage is automatically downloaded to your computer, be absolutely sure to move those shots (digital video files) to a separate folder <em>outside your camera roll</em>. If you don’t, they will all get erased in the cloud when you erase them off your phone. They will also get erased off your computer and any other device that also talks to the cloud. This is one major flaw of syncing with the cloud — most people think they can trash stuff on their phone to free up memory because it was transferred to their computer and lives in the cloud, but in reality, your computer is talking to the cloud and unless you transfer it out of your camera roll into a folder on your desktop, you’ll lose everything.</p>\r\n<p class=\"article-tips remember\">All your movie files will be saved to your camera roll in your phone and filed under Videos. But move your movie shots out of the camera roll into a special folder that isn’t mirroring your camera roll in the cloud.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2 id=\"tab7\" >Miniature Camera Equipment</h2>\r\nThe great thing about your movie camera being your smartphone is that everything is light and portable. Your phone is also small enough to mount on a car dashboard or adhere to the car window (on the inside) for great single shots of your driver and passenger or a nice two shot from inside the windshield. Or, turn your phone around so it’s looking out your windshield for a nice POV (point-of-view) shot of the road.\r\n<p class=\"article-tips tip\">Use a selfie-stick as your camera crane for high shots or low to the ground shots. (See the following figure.) Cut a slot out of a paper cup to make a tripod to hold your phone — this also works great as a dolly, too — and just slide the cup along a desk top or the floor. Try furniture sliders to slide your smartphone along carpets or hardwood floors for smooth dolly shots.</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_266980\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"556\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-266980\" src=\"https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/filmmaking-selfie-stick.jpg\" alt=\"A selfie stick used as a camera crane\" width=\"556\" height=\"446\" /> Model: Honey Bear.<br /><br />A selfie stick used as a camera crane for the Smartphone. High and low shots.[/caption]\r\n\r\nIf you want professional-looking dolly shots, check out <a href=\"http://www.dynoequipment.com/\">Dyno Trek</a>. It’s a miniature, motorized dolly system (also called a <em>slider system</em>) built just for smartphones. It comes with tracks that magnetically hook together for flawless, smooth movement. You can dolly in and out and side to side, or turn the track vertically and get dolly-up and dolly-down shots. You can program the speed of the dolly and even set it up to move in sync with your smartphone for time-lapse shots or stop-motion animation. The kit is lightweight and portable and comes in a sturdy carry case.\r\n<p class=\"article-tips tip\">If you have an older smartphone that you put away after you bought the latest and greatest upgrade, it may be time to dust it off. Even though cellular service isn’t activated on your old phone, all its camera functions should be working fine. It’s really an iPod without cellular service. But you still have Wi-Fi!</p>\r\nThis old smartphone can be used as your action backup camera (make sure it’s not a big deal if this extra phone gets damaged or destroyed). Place it in the middle of a quiet neighborhood street and have your actor in a car drive over and past the camera. Just make sure he knows to keep the smartphone between the tires! Secure this “B” action camera on the outside of your car for some dramatic driving shots. You can even find a car suction cup mounting device for your smartphone on Amazon — or, just use lots of masking tape on the phone to secure it. (I recommend tying the phone down securely — just in case. The wind could catch it and send it flying!)\r\n\r\nThrow the phone in the air to a friend to simulate the POV of a ball being tossed back and forth. I recommend doing this on the grass in case one of you misses a catch.\r\n<h2 id=\"tab8\" >Use Several Smartphones to Capture Your Movie</h2>\r\nPretty much everyone on your crew (even if there’s just two of you) has a smartphone, so any one of these could be used as a second or third camera on your shoot. If you have two actors talking, you can save time by having one smartphone on each actor, instead of using one camera to shoot each actor separately. You can also use an extra smartphone for your wide shots, and another for close-ups (just don’t get the phones used for close-ups in the wide shot!)\r\n<p class=\"article-tips tip\">Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro was the catalyst for the creation of a new triple-camera system that allows users to shoot multiple different-size shots at the same time with just one smartphone camera. This iPhone has three different lenses: a telephoto lens, a wide lens, and an ultra-wide lens. Using a revolutionary app developed by Filmic Pro through the App Store, each lens can record its own file — thus creating three different-sized shots at one time. It’s like three cameras rolled into one smartphone. It’s also invaluable for documentaries and spur-of-the-moment events.</p>\r\nAnother ingenious advancement with the Filmic Pro app, is the ability to use the iPhone Pro 11 to shoot an interview in which both the interviewer and the interviewee are filmed at the same time. The app records footage from both the front and back camera at the same time and creates two separate digital files. So, you don’t have to have two separate cameras to shoot your interview! This unique technology is absolutely a game-changer for the independent filmmaker shooting with an iPhone and the Filmic Pro app!\r\n<p class=\"article-tips tip\">For more great tips and a fun book that converts into a smartphone projector with speakers, includes ticket stubs to your premiere, and even has popcorn boxes — check out my book, <em>Smartphone Movie Maker</em> at Amazon and other fine bookstores near you!</p>\r\n\r\n<h2 id=\"tab9\" >Great Sound on Your Smartphone Too!</h2>\r\nNot only can your smartphone shoot great, broadcast-quality digital images, but it also gives you pristine digital sound recording. To get the best of this, plug in a professional directional microphone. You don’t want to use your built-in smartphone microphone because it only picks up good sound close to the phone, or ambient sound from all around your environment. Some wireless sound options can record sound directly into your smartphone without the hassle of tripping over wires. <a href=\"http://www.rode.com/\">Røde</a> makes the Wireless GO, which is perfect as a wireless, compact microphone for your smartphone shoot.\r\n<h2 id=\"tab10\" >Your Smartphone Is an Entire Production Studio</h2>\r\nYour smartphone gives you a camera to shoot your movie, and it can give you great sound. But that’s not all. You pretty much have an entire production studio in your pocket! You can even write your screenplay on your smartphone with the Final Draft app for under $10. Storyboard on your phone with certain storyboard apps like Blocker by AfterNow (an absolutely amazing 3D app) and Storyboard Animator for free. You can create a shot list on your phone with an app called Shotlist – Movie Shoot Planning<em>.</em> You can also download stock footage and sound effects right to your phone. 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Dance Ballet For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 04-27-2022

Ballet is a beautiful and demanding art form, with positions and moves to memorize and, often, strained muscles to heal. From the five basic positions — from which all ballet moves emanate — to the (mostly French) language of ballet, there's lots to master.

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Film Digital Filmmaking For Kids For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 04-12-2022

Digital filmmaking is the process of creating and telling a story or presenting information through the art of film using digital video cameras. Basically, it’s a way creative people like you can turn the ideas in your heads into films audiences can watch on movie screens, TVs, or computers. You can assemble a team to create your film, audition and hire actors, and then shoot your film. Afterward, you can edit your film using commonly available editing software.

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Theater Breaking Into Acting For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-25-2022

Breaking into acting takes more than catching a lucky break. Take steps to show up prepared for your acting audition, like keeping your clothes measurements with you. Keep accurate records of your acting expenses so you can deduct them from your taxes. Learn to deal with the frustration of acting, and keep your hopes of becoming an actor alive.

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Theater Voice Acting For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-25-2022

Ever wanted to use your voice to make a living but just didn’t know how or what to do? Voice acting is one of the greatest ways that you can use your instrument and also make money. As a voice actor, you can exercise your creativity to its fullest and get all the voices in your head a paying job! Most importantly, though, to be a voice actor is to tell a story and to tell it well. What story will you tell today?

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Film Filmmaking For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-23-2022

The responsibilities of a filmmaking team can be compared to those of the host of people needed to pull off a fine dining experience from the director/chef to the production assistants/servers. As a filmmaker, you have to be organized enough to know what you need to have in order before you start and what to bring to a location shoot. And, if you can get high production values in your movie for little money, you’ll be all the more successful.

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Theater Playwriting For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 01-26-2022

Playwriting is an exciting and accessible performing arts scriptwriting discipline. Anyone can write a play, round up some friends as actors, and gather an audience to present original theatre at its most fundamental level. But to write great plays that enthrall audiences, you may want to explore playwriting in more detail. To be a successful playwright, you need to know where ideas for plays come from, the lingo writers speak, how to create fully dimensional characters, how to write dialogue, where to start your play, how to develop your storyline and reach the story’s climax, and how to bring your play to a satisfying conclusion.

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Dance Important Ballet Terms to Know

Article / Updated 12-29-2021

Whether you're practicing ballet in the studio or dancing ballet for a performance, it's important to know the lingo. The following list shows some basic ballet terms with pronunciation guides, as well, because almost all of them are French: Battement tendu (bat-MAHN tahn-DUE): Brushing out your leg along the floor and pointing your foot. It also can be done lifting your legs to various heights, to the front, side, and back (also known as arabesque). En pointe (ahn PWANT or on point): Balancing on the tips of your toes (for women only). This is achieved by wearing special pointe shoes. Grand jeté (GRAHN juh-TAY): A forward jump with a split. Pas de deux (PAH duh DEUH): A dance for two. Pirouette (pee-roo-ET): A turn or series of multiple turns. Plié (plee-AY): Bending your knees. This can be a small or big bend, on one leg or two. Port de bras (POR duh BRAH): Movement of your arms and upper body. Sauté (soh-TAY): A small jump on two legs, landing on both legs. Tutu: A ballerina's skirt, sticking straight out from the hips like a pizza.

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Film Screenwriting For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 11-30-2021

Screenwriting requires that you adhere to specific script formatting standards. As a screenwriter, you also need to know basic camera directions so that you can included them in your scripts, and you need to write interesting characters to drive your story forward. Most producers give a script the five-and-dime treatment, meaning they’ll read the first five pages and the last ten to assess whether a movie is for them. They’re primarily looking for scripts that are between 90 and 120 pages with a compelling hook and a clear sense of style and/or genre. Format is one way to convey those things efficiently.

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Film Bollywood For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheet / Updated 04-20-2021

Bollywood is one of the largest film industries in the world and is chock-full of colorful characters, talented actors and actresses, epic song and dance numbers, elegant fashion, and memorable dialogue. The largest movie industry in the cultural mecca that is India, Bollywood has innumerable surprises and layers of fun for any fan to unpack. Even avid Bollywood fans are constantly discovering new corners of this marvelous film industry. This Cheat Sheet serves as a handy guide to give you a preview of the Indian subcontinent's world of cinema.

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Film 10 Tips for Shooting on Your Smartphone

Article / Updated 12-30-2019

Today’s smartphones are so sophisticated, and the technology so advanced, you can shoot a professional looking short movie, or even a full-length feature on your smartphone. Your phone probably shoots 4K broadcast quality images — something that many older expensive video cameras can’t even do. Some of the advantages to shooting with your smartphone include: You just point and shoot. You don’t have to fuss with bulky movie lenses. No manual F or T stops to deal with. No depth of field or focus headaches. No exposure issues. No need to lug around a heavy, bulky camera. Your phone is always with you — ready to capture that million-to-one encounter or shoot that on-the-spot great idea. Shooting in Landscape The first thing you have to remember is you’re shooting a movie, not a photo, not a selfie, and not something you’re just going to post to Facebook or Instagram. So, you now have to remember to turn your smartphone sideways. This is called landscape mode. The normal way you’re use to holding your phone is profile mode. Note that landscape mode resembles the dimensions of your 16x9 TV. Note also that when you watch YouTube videos or feature films on your smartphone, you turn it sideways for the image to fill the whole screen. If you don’t shoot your movie in landscape mode, you’ll have black bars on each side of the image, and your movie will not fill the entire screen. So, landscape, don’t profile! Always make sure your smartphone is charged and ready to go. Shooting video on your phone drains the battery faster than talking or listening to music on your phone. Take Off with Airplane Mode You’re moving in for the perfect shot, the actors embrace, and you’re capturing a priceless moment — and then your perfect shot is interrupted by your phone ringing — your camera is ringing! “Cut! Hello? Hi mom, I’m busy, shooting my movie.” It’s happened to me. Go into your phone settings and put your phone on airplane mode. All the functions of your phone will work except your shoot won’t be interrupted by another phone call or annoying text. You want your smartphone to be a 100-percent dedicated camera for your shoot, not a communications device. Steady as She Goes Your smartphone is already a sophisticated movie camera. Most smartphones have a built-in stabilizer to ensure steadier shots. Often, you can handhold your smartphone for many of your shots, especially moving or following shots. Steady as a Rock For steady tripod shots, you can get special adapters for your phone that have a tripod mount, so you can attach the phone to a tripod for rock-solid shots or for smooth panning ones. You’ll find plenty of smartphone tripod adapters on Amazon for as low as $5. Shooting Format and Resolution Before you start shooting with your smartphone, you need to go into your camera video settings. You will have a choice of resolution quality. Usually the options are 720, 1080 (2K) and 4K. I’m sure that 6K and up will soon be available for your phone. I recommend shooting on 720 or 2K because the quality is awesome and both resolutions are broadcast quality. If you shoot in 4K, you will very quickly eat up a lot of storage space on your phone. In the video settings, you should also have the choice of shooting at 30 frames per second or 24 frames per second. Choose 24fps for a more film-like look. A great smartphone app called Filmic Pro will add even more professional shooting options to your already advanced smartphone. Saving Your Movie Files Depending on your smartphone’s built-in storage capacity — or if your smartphone has a removable SD memory card — you will have to constantly offload (transfer) your shots to an external hard drive or your computer. If you don’t, your phone’s memory will soon fill up and you will have no more room to shoot anything. Some smartphones connect to your computer via USB and allow you to download your footage this way. An iPhone allows you to wirelessly download your footage from your phone using Airdrop. This allows you to easily and effortlessly download your footage, which then you can erase (trash) off your phone and continue shooting. There’s also a great (free) app called Simple Transfer, which is absolutely one of my favorite apps. It lets you view all your phone’s photos and movies on your computer desktop, and you can choose which shots you want to download from your phone to your computer in one batch — so you don’t have to transfer one shot at a time. I absolutely love this app so much it’s on my phone’s main home screen. Many smartphones are now synced up with the cloud, so, chances are, your smartphone footage will automatically download to your computer if both are talking to the cloud. I can’t emphasize this warning enough. If your phone is talking to the cloud and your footage is automatically downloaded to your computer, be absolutely sure to move those shots (digital video files) to a separate folder outside your camera roll. If you don’t, they will all get erased in the cloud when you erase them off your phone. They will also get erased off your computer and any other device that also talks to the cloud. This is one major flaw of syncing with the cloud — most people think they can trash stuff on their phone to free up memory because it was transferred to their computer and lives in the cloud, but in reality, your computer is talking to the cloud and unless you transfer it out of your camera roll into a folder on your desktop, you’ll lose everything. All your movie files will be saved to your camera roll in your phone and filed under Videos. But move your movie shots out of the camera roll into a special folder that isn’t mirroring your camera roll in the cloud. Miniature Camera Equipment The great thing about your movie camera being your smartphone is that everything is light and portable. Your phone is also small enough to mount on a car dashboard or adhere to the car window (on the inside) for great single shots of your driver and passenger or a nice two shot from inside the windshield. Or, turn your phone around so it’s looking out your windshield for a nice POV (point-of-view) shot of the road. Use a selfie-stick as your camera crane for high shots or low to the ground shots. (See the following figure.) Cut a slot out of a paper cup to make a tripod to hold your phone — this also works great as a dolly, too — and just slide the cup along a desk top or the floor. Try furniture sliders to slide your smartphone along carpets or hardwood floors for smooth dolly shots. If you want professional-looking dolly shots, check out Dyno Trek. It’s a miniature, motorized dolly system (also called a slider system) built just for smartphones. It comes with tracks that magnetically hook together for flawless, smooth movement. You can dolly in and out and side to side, or turn the track vertically and get dolly-up and dolly-down shots. You can program the speed of the dolly and even set it up to move in sync with your smartphone for time-lapse shots or stop-motion animation. The kit is lightweight and portable and comes in a sturdy carry case. If you have an older smartphone that you put away after you bought the latest and greatest upgrade, it may be time to dust it off. Even though cellular service isn’t activated on your old phone, all its camera functions should be working fine. It’s really an iPod without cellular service. But you still have Wi-Fi! This old smartphone can be used as your action backup camera (make sure it’s not a big deal if this extra phone gets damaged or destroyed). Place it in the middle of a quiet neighborhood street and have your actor in a car drive over and past the camera. Just make sure he knows to keep the smartphone between the tires! Secure this “B” action camera on the outside of your car for some dramatic driving shots. You can even find a car suction cup mounting device for your smartphone on Amazon — or, just use lots of masking tape on the phone to secure it. (I recommend tying the phone down securely — just in case. The wind could catch it and send it flying!) Throw the phone in the air to a friend to simulate the POV of a ball being tossed back and forth. I recommend doing this on the grass in case one of you misses a catch. Use Several Smartphones to Capture Your Movie Pretty much everyone on your crew (even if there’s just two of you) has a smartphone, so any one of these could be used as a second or third camera on your shoot. If you have two actors talking, you can save time by having one smartphone on each actor, instead of using one camera to shoot each actor separately. You can also use an extra smartphone for your wide shots, and another for close-ups (just don’t get the phones used for close-ups in the wide shot!) Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro was the catalyst for the creation of a new triple-camera system that allows users to shoot multiple different-size shots at the same time with just one smartphone camera. This iPhone has three different lenses: a telephoto lens, a wide lens, and an ultra-wide lens. Using a revolutionary app developed by Filmic Pro through the App Store, each lens can record its own file — thus creating three different-sized shots at one time. It’s like three cameras rolled into one smartphone. It’s also invaluable for documentaries and spur-of-the-moment events. Another ingenious advancement with the Filmic Pro app, is the ability to use the iPhone Pro 11 to shoot an interview in which both the interviewer and the interviewee are filmed at the same time. The app records footage from both the front and back camera at the same time and creates two separate digital files. So, you don’t have to have two separate cameras to shoot your interview! This unique technology is absolutely a game-changer for the independent filmmaker shooting with an iPhone and the Filmic Pro app! For more great tips and a fun book that converts into a smartphone projector with speakers, includes ticket stubs to your premiere, and even has popcorn boxes — check out my book, Smartphone Movie Maker at Amazon and other fine bookstores near you! Great Sound on Your Smartphone Too! Not only can your smartphone shoot great, broadcast-quality digital images, but it also gives you pristine digital sound recording. To get the best of this, plug in a professional directional microphone. You don’t want to use your built-in smartphone microphone because it only picks up good sound close to the phone, or ambient sound from all around your environment. Some wireless sound options can record sound directly into your smartphone without the hassle of tripping over wires. Røde makes the Wireless GO, which is perfect as a wireless, compact microphone for your smartphone shoot. Your Smartphone Is an Entire Production Studio Your smartphone gives you a camera to shoot your movie, and it can give you great sound. But that’s not all. You pretty much have an entire production studio in your pocket! You can even write your screenplay on your smartphone with the Final Draft app for under $10. Storyboard on your phone with certain storyboard apps like Blocker by AfterNow (an absolutely amazing 3D app) and Storyboard Animator for free. You can create a shot list on your phone with an app called Shotlist – Movie Shoot Planning. You can also download stock footage and sound effects right to your phone. In post-production, edit your entire movie on smartphone apps like the free iPhone version of iMovie or a myriad of Android editing apps. And, when you’ve completed your movie, use your phone to upload it directly to YouTube or Vimeo!

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