Budgeting: Determine your film’s budget by considering factors such as script requirements, production scale, crew size, equipment needs, locations, and post-production expenses. Seek funding through investors, grants, crowdfunding, or personal financing. This begins with your breakdown of the script! NOTE: You can download my free …
Character & Story
Story comes out of Character. No matter what world you create for your characters, or the inciting incident that sets them on their journey, nor even the conflict you think will drive the story, it all goes nowhere if your character is not well developed. …
Greening The BC Film Industry
The BC film and tv industry is greening things up, and we don’t just mean using green screens! With the filmmaking industry growing the way it is in BC, production companies are meeting the challenge of working in more environmentally sustainable ways. The issues surrounding …
Special Effects Makeup Fun
I spent a day modelling SFX makeup for a student at the Blanche Macdonald program in Vancouver. It took about an hour and a half to achieve these basic sfx applications and gave me a better understanding of what actors and the makeup team go through for …