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Director Ben Briand Creates a Breathtaking Film in 8 Hours with 1 light.
Lights Film School chatted with Director Ben Briand (Twitter) about his beautiful short film entitled Some Static Started. You’ll find the 8 minute film and our in-depth interview below. Enjoy! Hello...
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Red Balloon: A Short Film Shot on the RED Cam
Lights Film School recently chatted with Alexis Wajsbrot about the film that him and Director Damien Mace shot last year entitled “Red Balloon”. The film raked in quite a few festival awards and is now...
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Branded Short Film: Filmmaker Collaborates with Sponsors to Get His Film Made.
Hello Jarrett and thank you for creating such a beautiful little film. “Foolishly Seeking True Love” has it all: Great direction, sound, cinematography, design, wardrobe and writing. It was truly a...
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$5000 Short Film: Uploaded Tuesday Night. 50,000 Hits by Wednesday Morning.
Ricardo de Montreuil (twitter) redefines good worth ethic. At under 40 he’s already accomplished a slew of accomplishments ranging from being recognized by Cannes Lions advertising festival to having...
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Breathtaking Nature Short Film Shot on a DSLR
Hello James. You recently shot and edited two short films. First there is “We Were Wanderers on a Prehistoric Earth” and secondly there is “The Isle of Langkawi”. Can you start by telling us a little...
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Short Film – Mental Dialogue of Being Drunk at a Party and Not Knowing Anyone
Lights Film School Online recently interviewed Nico Casavecchia about his short film entitled “Salesman in the Mirror”. Before we jump into the interview take a moment and watch the nine minute short...
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Documentary Music Licensing Costs
Lights Film School recently had the opportunity to talk with the filmmakers behind the documentary Tchoupitoulas. They discuss how they approached dramatic structure, licensing music for their film,...
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Starting a Production Company: Know Your Weaknesses
Lights Film School Online recently had the opportunity to interview Ryan Staake the owner / operator of Pomp&Clout a multidisciplinary design / direction company based out of Brooklyn and...
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5 Successful DSLR Feature Films
Image taken from “Diamond Flash” The word “success” means different things to different people. So in this blog post we’ve showcased 5 different feature films (and one documentary) that were shot on...
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Cinematic Short Film Shot on Canon 5D Mark II
Lights Film School Online was recently fortunate enough to interview Christian Cavazos who shot the short film entitled “Nuevo Mexico” on the Canon 5D Mark II. The result is an impressively cinematic...
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How I Made My First Feature Film
Lights Online Film School recently had the opportunity to interview one of our newest students, Josh Beck, about his debut feature film entitled EVER. You can watch the teaser trailer for the film and...
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Directors Working As Their Own Cinematographers
Lights Online Film School recently chatted with Matthew Chuang (facebook page) about his short film Mathilda. The film won the Silver Audience Award for Best Short Film at Fantasia International Film...
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Does Your Identity as a Filmmaker Depend on Your Success?
Lights Online Film School recently interviewed Sam de Jong about his film “Magnesium” which was accepted into many international film festivals including the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. The...
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A Breakout Music Video – Branding Tool Proof For Artists
Lights Online Film School’s Music Video Department recently chatted with director Amos LeBlanc about his music video for AutoErotique entitled “Asphyxiation”. For those of you who don’t know...
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Best Director Winner at Cannes works With Low Budgets
A filmmaker you need to know about (if you don’t already) is Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan. He represents everything that is beautiful about indie filmmaking. He’s daring, unconventional, finds...
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What is the Average Budget of a Music Video?
The budget for music videos can vary greatly on a project to project basis. Shifts in the distribution landscape have fundamentally changed the business model of how music is both produced and...
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A Film Can be Good, Fast and Cheap But You Can Only Pick Two Out Of The Three
Lights Online Film School recently had the opportunity to interview Young Replicant about a couple of music videos his team recently shot. These videos have been visited many millions of times on sites...
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Music Video Production: Starting Your Own Company
Music Video Production: Starting Your Own Company ; LEARN MORE through our online film school. Lights Film School Online recently had the opportunity to interview Ryan Staake the owner / operator of...
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5 Successful DSLR Feature Films ; LEARN MORE through our online film school. The word “success” means different things to different people. So in this blog post by Lights Online Film School we’ve...
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Cinematic Short Film Shot on Canon 5D Mark II
Cinematic Short Film Shot on Canon 5D Mark II ; LEARN MORE through our online film school. Lights Film School Online was recently fortunate enough to interview Christian Cavazos who shot the short...
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