Film School: Tricks for Your Small Film Crew

3 Tricks For Your Impossibly Small Film Crew | Vimeo Video School 3 Tricks For Your Impossibly Small Film Crew | Vimeo Video School

Basic filmmaking techniques you can use with only two people.

Vimeo Video School demonstrates tips and tricks for making videos with only two people (both in front of and behind the camera, in total) – swipe cut, split screen, and smartphone audio:

3 Tricks For Your Impossibly Small Film Crew | Vimeo Video School
3 Tricks For Your Impossibly Small Film Crew | Vimeo Video School

Noam Kroll offers some creative, conceptual starting points:

Equally, if not more, crucial: looking after the friends and collaborators helping out. Here’s a whole thread from MicroBudgetFilmPodcast on incentives you can still offer your team, even on a shoestring:

Further Viewing

In-camera transitions, together with meticulously-planned shots and sound design, are used to great storytelling effect in this 30-second sequence from Hot Fuzz (2007) (which we look at in more detail here):

Long before working with mulit-million-dollar budgets, blockbuster director Christopher Nolan made his debut feature for $6,000 – here are some lessons to take from his approach:

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