A Fond Farewell to Every Frame a Painting
No Budget Bids Farewell to Every Frame a Painting If you are not aware of Every Frame a Painting, it is a web series by Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos. In each episode of the series they take a deep dive into what makes films…
7 Tips for Your Self-Audition Tape
Without a long introduction here are some tips that might help you with your next self-audition video. 1 Take Your Time Since it is an audition tape, take your time. Get the lines right and do a few takes if you need. That is…
Top 10 Mistakes Most Low Budget Filmmakers Make
Every film project we work on is a learning experience. This can be big budget to small budget. For the low and no budget filmmakers there are some common mistakes that often get made. Here are the top ten mistakes that most low budget filmmakers…
A Couple of Tips for Shooting Outdoors
The No Budget crew heads to the beach to film a commercial and give a few tips on dealing with the sun when filming outdoors.
What is CRI?
We recently did a light comparison video for the show where we discussed CRI. But we didn’t go into detail as to what CRI is or how it is measured. CRI stands for color rendering index which is a measure of a light sources color in…
10 Tips to Help Save on Catering a No Budget Film Shoot
If there is one thing that you must spend money on when it comes to a film production, that one thing is food. A well feed cast and crew is a happy cast and crew. 10. Plan ahead and buy items well in advance when on…
What is a Film Continuity Log Sheet and How to Use It?
A Brief Walk-through of Completing the Continuity Log for a Film The Continuity Log is something that often is neglected during a no-budget film-shoot. The reason for this might be because of not having someone to fill the position. This is something that falls under…
