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The Origins of Auteur Theory

Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ Take the full Filmmaker IQ course on Auteur Theory with sauce and bonus material at: https://filmmakeriq.com/courses/origins-auteur-theory/ Auteur – it’s a favorite term of cinephiles around the world. But what exactly is Auteur Theory? In this Filmmaker IQ course we peel back pages of time and explore the origins […]

How to Get Your Short Screened at Film Festivals

If you liked this, please subscribe (and click the bell) and consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ You’ve finished your short film and it’s GREAT! But now what? Here is a run down of some basic tips and strategies for entering your film into film festivals designed to save you money and maximize your festival […]

The History and Science of the Slit Scan Effect used in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ Explore the mysterious and forgotten technique of Slit Scan for special effects and how Douglas Trumbull applied the photographic technique to Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Then we’ll do our best to recreate the effect using LEGO.

The History of the Mockbuster

Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ Where there are Blockbusters, there will be imitations trying to cash in on an a popular cultural trend. Explore the history of the mockbuster film, from the roots in studio B-pictures, to sound alike films of the digital era, foreign remakes and the legalities of making movies to […]

The History of Frame Rate for Film

Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ Explore the history of the frame rate – the engine that gives motion to the motion picture from their earliest versions in silent pictures to the frame rates of broadcast television. Take the full Filmmaker IQ course on Frame Rate with sauce and bonus material at: https://filmmakeriq.com/courses/history-frame-rate-film/ If […]

The History of the Hollywood Movie Poster

Please consider supporting us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ The Movie Poster has been around since the beginning of the Movies – in this course we will explore the earliest history of poster making and Lithography, the monopoly of Hollywood movie poster production by the National Screen Service and look at the artwork of influential artists working […]

Hollywood’s History of Faking It | The Evolution of Greenscreen Compositing

Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ Go inside the history of the travelling mattes (now called chromakey) and learn the history of visual trickery used by filmmakers from the earliest filmmakers through to the modern day.

The Fundamental Elements of Film Music

Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ Take the full Filmmaker IQ course on the Fundamental Elemetns of Music with sauce and bonus material: https://filmmakeriq.com/courses/fundamental-elements-music/ Explore the role of music in film from it’s importance in silent film to the elements and tools that modern composers use to create music for the silver screen. See […]

Introduction to Foley and Sound Effects for Film

Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ Take the full Filmmaker IQ course on Foley and Sound Effects with sauce and bonus material and submit your very own Foley Film Lab at: https://filmmakeriq.com/courses/introduction-foley-sound-effects/ Very little of what you hear in the movies is real – in this lab we take a look at the art […]

The History and Philosophy of Copyright

Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ This video is part of a Filmmaker IQ course on copyright which includes links and sauce for more information about copyright: https://filmmakeriq.com/courses/the-history-of-copyright/ Let’s dive into the history of Copyright, a legal framework that makes mass market publishing from books to movies possible. We explore perhaps the earliest example […]

5 Elements of Great Chromakey

Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ Explore the 5 crucial elements of capturing a great chromakey for your production from space, screen, lighting, camera and post and try your hand at chromakey with a Reporter on the Street Short film.

Posing and Rendering CGI Characters

Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ How do we create and pose CGI characters? In this companion course to our “Science of Rendering Photorealistic CGI” (https://youtu.be/Qx_AmlZxzVk) we walk through the steps we use to create, pose and render our mascot using 3D Studio Max, V-Ray as well as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects. […]