Tech Advice

How to Turn Your Smartphone into the Perfect Video Camera

When you think about what camera equipment and accessories you need to shoot high-quality video, the basics come to mind: microphones, lenses, tripods, and lighting. Just add a smartphone to that mix, and you’re ready to roll! With shooting video on your phone, the basics are exactly the same.

Actor Audition App Is An Acting Coach on Your Smartphone

Can you pack a full class’s worth of acting advice into a single iOS download? L.A.-based coach Scott Sedita seems to think you can and has set out to prove it with his $9.99 Actor Audition App, a largely static collection of useful tips about auditioning ...

How To Make Your Own Teleprompter

Whether it’s for making speeches, delivering the news, reading cue lines, or singing songs, a teleprompter can be a valuable—even an invaluable—part of your career success.

Top 6 Must-Have Tech Items For Any Actor

The must-have items from previous installments of Thing of the Week.

How To Shop For a Camera

One of the inevitable, confusing, and exciting decisions for someone taking the DIY road is whether to purchase your own camera and which one to purchase.

How to Cut a Movie Trailer

I didn’t bet on beginners luck, but rather, tried to apply some common sense principles to my approach. Here are four things I kept in mind while cutting my first trailer.

Edit Photos Like a Pro from Your Smartphone with Snapseed App

As smartphone cameras have evolved, so too have mobile photo editing apps. Snapseed puts many of the finer tweaking mechanisms professional photographers regularly use right at your fingertips.

Apogee Duet Offers Great Audio Interface for iPad and Mac

When it comes to your career, sometimes you’re better off springing for pricey products. Case in point: Apogee Digital’s new Duet for iPad & Mac. If you do a lot of recording, and want to be absolutely sure that your concert, cabaret, or other performance sounds the best it ...

How to Create Your Own Green Screen Effects

Green screen, or “chroma key compositing,” is a popular special-effects technique used to strip the background of a subject on video or film and replace it with another.

5 Things Every Filmmaker Should Know Before They Step on Set

So you want to be in the movie business? The road to the red carpet is a long and difficult one. It’s honestly a miracle that anything ever gets made. Although Hollywood continues to look for a formula, there’s not one. Every project has its specific challenges. And ...