Tips for Student Filmmakers

Learn from the 7 Classics. Filmmaking tips from these Classic Films

How to use Colour Ways to use colour to create meaning

Creating Impact with Colour Learn from Joker

When to Use Different Lenses How your Lens Choice creates Meaning

Advice from Wes Anderson Learn from the Master

How to Create Compelling Characters Help with Characterisation

Tips on Filming Outside. How Robert Yeoman Shoots Exteriors

How to Format your Script ... and a free scripting download from Celtx

Cinematography Advice from the Master, Roger Deakins

Cinematography Advice : How (and Why) to Move your Camera

How Production Design Creates Meaning. Learn from Stanley Kubrick

IB Film Resources from The Global Educator

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Documentary Films


The Imposter

Looking into the Lens


Triumph of the Will

Is it propaganda?


Editing Documentaries

How docs create meaning through editing

Art of the Edit

Full documentary on editing


The Art of Action

Shooting and editing martial arts films


The Art of Cinematography

Includes Her, Dunkirk, Roma, Avengers


The Cutting Edge

Doc on editing:Tarantino, Scorsese, Cameron,


Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

New Hollywood and the film school generation


Room 237: The Shining

Various interpretations of Kubrick's film


Visions of Light

Doc on the craft and art of cinematography


Re-enactment in The Thin Blue Line


The Thing Blue Line interview

Hans Zimmer's Dune

Tarantino's use of Music

Darren Aronofsky

David Fincher

Spielberg's use of Sound