How to Make a Narrative Short at Home | Building an Indie Film Production Kit

Do your ideas ever feel unobtainable to capture? We're here to show you that all it takes to make an amazing short film is a room, some gear, and some friends!

Join us along with multi-hyphenate filmmakers Valentina Vee and Clifton Stommel as they take us through a day of indie short film production. Inspired by a specific effect on Aputure's MT Pro, Clifton and his wife Evelyn pulled together a Twilight-Zone inspired short film in less than three weeks from script to screen. We'll take a look at some realistic practical lighting effects, simple DIY filmmaking techniques, and go over best practices for gear acquisition.

Clifton and Valentina will be checking the comments, be sure to ask them any filmmaking-related questions!

See the full short film "Spring Cleaning" here:    • Spring Cleaning Short Film - Comedic ...  

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:45 - Prep
2:42 - Practical Lighting Effects
4:40 - Purposeful Lighting
6:25 - "Spring Cleaning" Teaser
7:45 - Outro

Credits - Spring Cleaning:
Written & Directed by - Clifton & Evelyn Stommel
Starring - Christian Prentice, Evelyn & Mitsy Stommel
Editor - Malia Jay
Camera Op - Logan Miller
1st AC - Paige Deniger
2nd AC - Leo Trejo
Gaffer - JC Falcon
KG - Nick Weir
Production Sound Mixer - Alfanso Cano
Script Supervisor - Claire Hatch
Executive Producer - Maxwell Miranda & Alec Cohen-Schisler

Credits - BTS Unit:
Host - Valentina Vee
Director - Alec Cohen-Schisler
Editor - Matt Esteron
BTS Videographer - Jamon Tolbert & Austin Rodgers
Producer - Tue Duong

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