Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects

- Hey folks, this is Chad Perkins, the filmmaker from Seattle. This training series is part of a collection of courses that teach you how to make a short film start to finish. As part of this training, I made a short fantasy film called The Assurance and documented the entire process from writing and pre-production to working on set, through post-production to a screening in an independent movie theater in Seattle. In this training you'll get to see how we budgeted, auditioned actors, set up lights and cameras, wrote and recorded the orchestral score, how we did all of our visual effects, everything. the challenges we had and mistakes we made, Each course focuses on a component of filmmaking that will be released in the general order How do you get a project off the ground and shepherd it to completion? examining some of the best Hollywood films, as well as how we created the world The Assurance. Course number three is about pre-production, getting the script ready to film. with our crew about the schedule, budget, designing the wardrobe from scratch, developing concept art, and more. The fourth course is on acting. We'll look at what acting is really about and we'll show you our auditions and rehearsals and why we made the choices we did. The fifth course is about directing, and the many decisions that directors have to make. What do all these people do? and we'll see how we were able to reedit our initial story to tell a completely different and much better one. creating environments, adding elements to shots, Course 10 is all about the stuff your think of you know all that pretty stuff. These are all things that you can do at home for little to no money. Course 11 is about color. This is the huge part of The Assurance and is an often underused tool to transform bland footage or even poorly shot footage into something gorgeous. Course 12 is all about audio. We'll look at recording audio on set, composing the score and recording it, sound design, and mixing it all together. And finally we'll wrap things up in course 13 by talking about how to market and distribute your film, including how to make marketing materials I think it's one of a kind experience to not just about how to make films, but to see what it's actually like to solve problems, - Cut! - Now this has been years in the making, so thank you so much for watching this. Enjoy the training. (excited yelling and clapping)