
Film Quick Takes: Script Study
Short, focused exercises to build your filmmaking skills. Studying a full-length film script can provide valuable insights into the creative and technical aspects of filmmaking, as well as improve your own writing skills and deepen your appreciation for the art of storytelling.

Film Quick Takes: Three-Point Lighting
Take three still portraits of friends or loved ones using a three-point lighting setup. Three-point lighting is a basic lighting technique used in photography, videography, and filmmaking to create a visually pleasing and balanced image. Learn the steps to set up three-point lighting in this blog.

Film Quick Takes: Ordinary Objects
Short, focused exercises to build your filmmaking skills. Find a very ordinary object. Using different camera angles, lens lengths, and lighting techniques, take three photos that reveal a new way of seeing the object

Film Quick Takes: Creating Meaning From Sound
Short, focused exercises to build your filmmaking skills. Go to a place that holds a lot of meaning for you. Record audio that captures why the place is important. Place this audio recording in the timeline of a film editing software program. Find images and assemble them in a timeline so that they illustrate the meaning you captured in the audio recording

Film Quick Takes: Tell a Story Using Five Still Images
Short, focused exercises to build your filmmaking skills. Telling a story using five still images is a great way to convey a narrative in a visual and concise way. Here are the general steps involved in creating a story using still images.