Film Tips

Speed up your editing by relying on your keyboard. If you memorize these 16 keyboard shortcuts, you'll become a true workflow warrior.

In this fantastic interview with Alfred Hitchcock from a 1976 press conference for his last film 'The Family Plot'. During this interview (1.5hr) Hitchcock r...

Using Warp Stabilizer can help you deal with shaky video in Premiere Pro. Here's what I talk about: 0:36 - Chapter 1: Applying Warp Stabilizer (Basics) 3:53 ...

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Horror is a film genre that is much more complex than it appears to be. The violence, sex, and gore speak to our deepest fears, anxieties, cultural taboos, and suppressed emotions. So, crafting this kind of film takes a little more finesse than pouring a bucket of blood on a naked cheerleader as she gets her head chopped off. ScreenCraft recently partnered with Dread Central and The Blood List (it's like The Black List, but for horror scripts) to host a seminar on horror screenwriting and…

We even included Aaron Sorkin and Darren Aronofsky for good measure.

Editing is one of the most mysterious aspects of filmmaking. Through skillful manipulations of still images, it's possible to create illusions of unity in time and space, and what's more, make these illusions elicit emotion from an audience, whether tears, laughs, or screams (and sometimes all three at once). Alfred Hitchcock was a master of editing (and everything else in the realm of cinema), and nowhere is his editing skill, as well as that of editor George Tomasini, more on display than…

Sometimes, all it takes is a little fruit to make our horror films more gruesome.

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Grow your understanding of screenwriting and visual language with our breakdown of director Denis Villeneuve's “Prisoners”.

You may have never heard of hyperfocal distance before, but you definitely have seen this concept in action.

Do you have the best filmmaking software to maximize your productivity? Here’s a rundown of our favorite, must-have filmmaking tools of the year.

This video shows how key story elements and character traits can be embedded in seemingly innocuous pieces of dialogue.