When actors and actresses are on a set/stage they have three walls surrounding them and the camera filming them or an audience sitting in front of them.  The fourth wall is an invisible, imagined wall that separates actors from the audience. While the audience can see through this “wall”, the actors act as if they cannot. Thus, making it…

Music can have a heavy effect in film. It sets a mood and makes the viewer predict what might happen or heighten the scene already taking place. Music can psychologically manipulate a viewer into thinking one way rather than the way they might have without music. The video below begins with a very corny scene…

Costumes aren’t just for kids on Halloween, they are some of the most vital pieces for a film. Costumes are also necessary to set the mood of the film.  For example, a spy movie would have a lot of people dressed in formal attire. A movie set in the Renaissance would have it’s characters dressed…

I have an interest in drones which got me thinking about the use of drones for creating aerial shots in movies. The common definition of an aerial shot is when the camera is mounted in or on a helicopter or airplane. The aerial shot is a variation of crane shot but from a higher altitude….