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Documentary Nears $40,000 Kickstarter Funding Goal
Lights Online Film School recently interviewed Deidre Schoo and Michael Nichols about their filmmaking and fundraising process relating to their new feature documentary entitled “Flex is Kings”. They...
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Documentary Music Licensing Costs
Lights Film School recently had the opportunity to talk with the filmmakers behind the documentary Tchoupitoulas. They discuss how they approached dramatic structure, licensing music for their film,...
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Filmmaker Uses 60D, Cinegrain & Sound to Create Atmospheric Short Film
Lights Film School Online recently had the opportunity to speak with Kristof Brandl who shot the atmospheric short film “POP LE CHEVAL” on the Canon 60D. The film acted as sort of a cinematic exercise...
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Starting a Production Company: Know Your Weaknesses
Lights Film School Online recently had the opportunity to interview Ryan Staake the owner / operator of Pomp&Clout a multidisciplinary design / direction company based out of Brooklyn and...
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Music Videos & the Importance of Pre-Production
Lights Film School Online recently talked with Grant James, the founder of Granted Productions, about running his independent production company. Our interview, along with some of Grant’s work, can be...
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Beautiful Branded Short Film – Shot on the Canon 7D & 5D
Lights Film School Online recently had the opportunity to chat with Ash Bolland, the filmmaker behind the popular skate video “Burn”. The interview along with the short film can be seen below. Hello...
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Cinematic Short Film Shot on Canon 5D Mark II
Lights Film School Online was recently fortunate enough to interview Christian Cavazos who shot the short film entitled “Nuevo Mexico” on the Canon 5D Mark II. The result is an impressively cinematic...
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TUB Short Film: Filmmakers Who Are Too Hard on Themselves
Lights Film School Online recently interviewed Bobby Miller, the filmmaker behind the unusual short film TUB. Below you’ll find his 12 minute short film along with our interview. What a unique short...
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How to Storyboard for Indie Films
Lights Film School Online recently had the opportunity to interview Giuseppe “Peppe” Cristiano, a professional storyboard artist currently living in Stockhom (Sweden). Giuseppe has numberous storyboard...
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Sundance Award Winning Short Film: Soft
Lights Film School Online recently chatted with Simon Ellis, the director of the award winning Sundance film entitled “Soft”. You can watch his 14 minute film and read our interview below. Enjoy!...
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Lights Film School Student Interview
Lights Online Film School recently had the opportunity to chat with one of our own award winning students, director Jason Forge, about his work as a filmmaker. We’ve posted 2 of Jason’s more recent...
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Screenwriting Formulas: Templates, Structure & The Rasa Approach
Lights Online Film School was recently fortunate enough to be in contact with Ashwini Malik who is a Mumbai-based independent filmmaker, screenwriter, screenwriting teacher and script consultant. His...
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Being a Director is More of a State of Mind Than a Profession
Lights Online Film School was recently lucky enough to be able to chat with director Tomek Goldbaum-Wlazinski about his music video “Melt” for KAMP. Let’s start by watching his breathtaking music...
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Writers & Filmmakers Unite! The Creation Of A Book Trailer
What we’re about to discuss is a fairly new phenomenon and we were only recently introduced to the idea when Phil Duncan, one of our screenwriting teachers, launched his book WAX and accompanied the...
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Finding a Story in Spontaneous Moments
Lights Online Film School recently interviewed filmmaker Neels Castillon regarding a couple of films from his portfolio. We were drawn towards the poetic power of his images.We also appreciated his...
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Starting Your Own Production Company
Hello Ryan and thank you for speaking with the Lights Online Film School – Music Video Department about your film production company Lucky Branded Entertainment based out of NYC. Many of our readers...
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Filmmakers Learn From Animators: Being Smart is Really Inexpensive
Lights Online Film School interviewed one of our very own students, Sweden based filmmaker Jesper Eriksson, this week about his most recent film, an animated short entitled “Between Beasts”. We are...
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How I Made My First Feature Film
Lights Online Film School recently had the opportunity to interview one of our newest students, Josh Beck, about his debut feature film entitled EVER. You can watch the teaser trailer for the film and...
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Dance Film: Sparked By a Flashlight
Lights Online Film School recently interviewed filmmakers Michael Langan and Terah Maher about their film “Choros”. Michael is an experimental filmmaker who had his film “Doxology” nominated for a...
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How to Storyboard for Indie Films
Lights Film School Online recently had the opportunity to interview Giuseppe “Peppe” Cristiano, a professional storyboard artist currently living in Stockhom (Sweden). Giuseppe has numberous storyboard...
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