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Tutorial Review: “How to Direct Child Actors: 7 Tips for Working with Kids” Children can add great value to every sort of movie. Think of "The Sixth Sense," "ET," and "Beasts of the Southern Wild." Unfortunately, an awkward performance can ruin a film quicker than a shaky camera or bad sound. If you've found a natural young actor, lucky you. But if that's not the case, you can employ a few simple techniques to help even a beginner deliver the goods. This four-and-a-half-minute tutorial from Film Jams provides sensible, easy-to-execute strategies. For example, as an antidote to wiggling, have the young performer stand in a large pot. The confinement makes “staying on the mark” automatic. You can see “How to Direct Child Actors: 7 Tips for Working with Kids” as MobileMovieMaking (link in profile). #moviemakingtips #filmtutorialreview #childacting #filmdirecting #directingchildren https://www.instagram.com/p/CI_8V2cBjKd/?igshid=9wbu6hmius5y

Tip #266: When writing a script for a low-budget production, base locations on places you know and can access. Dreaming up astonishing locations is one of the great pleasures in screenwriting. But locations created in the writer’s imagination can be difficult—aka expensive—to find. So if you’re working on a shoestring budget, it’s best to identify places that exist and that you can get permission to use while writing script. This bit of advice—and the frames shown here—are from a helpful tutorial “Let’s talk about Directing Short Films” by @ryan_connolly. You can see it at https://youtu.be/6Y7C0s7FNto. #moviemakingtips #movielocations #screenwriting https://www.instagram.com/p/CDFg8EMpeq8/?igshid=snhr1alxkhcj

MobileMovieMaking Tip 44: ISOLATE YOUR SUBJECT FOR VISUAL IMPACT. Isolating a subject works like a spotlight: it puts greater attention to a person or thing. Such emphasis is readily available when a subject is situated in a place with nothing around it. But if that’s not the case, you may be able to use creative frame to visually isolate your subject. One strategy is to walk around the subject until you find a vantage point from which the background is empty. Another possibility is shooting at an angle—looking up or down. The first example here is “The Wind Phone,” directed by @PhilipBromwell. This two-minute mini-doc— about a phone-booth-like structure that invites users to think about life and loss— was broadcast by @rtenews. “The Wind Phone” was chosen as a Mobile Movie of the Week by the editors of MobileMovieMaking Magazine. The second example is a frame from “Shane.” #mobilemoviemakingtips #moviemakingtips #videocomposition #framing_shots #mobilemovieoftheweek https://www.instagram.com/p/Buo_vDYgAdL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ud3gsdykxslh