how to

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.

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 Tips for Selecting the Right Soundtrack for Your Project

Soundtracks are vitally important when it comes to creating the right feel for your content, whether it be your reel or your web series.

5 Settings on a Digital Camera You Should Know

Here are five settings already built into almost DSLRs that will easily allow you to take DIY headshots, production stills, or other promotional photos without breaking open the manual.

How To Hire (And Keep) the Best Crew for Your Low-Budget Project

When assembling a crew for a low-budget project, it’s important to remember that “team” and the collaboration experience are usually more vital than any one individual and their level of technical know-how.

4 Ways to Make Your Content More Professional

If you want your content to be taken seriously in an increasingly competitive marketplace, the buck stops with you. Assuming you’ve only got a few bucks in your budget, here are 4 practical tips to help on your climb to the next level.

3 Ways to Find Original Monologues

A great way to make your audition the one the casting director remembers is to pick an off-the-beaten-path monologue to perform.

5 Tips for Navigating the Film Festival Circuit

As a filmmaker, there’s nothing more gratifying than screening your work at a festival. It’s a meeting place for seasoned artists and undiscovered talent alike.

How to Grow Your Podcast Audience

And after you've recorded the podcast, you'll want to build an audience of listeners. Creating an audience for media is not an exact science.

How to Fund Your Project With Kickstarter

Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative endeavors, and serves as a foundation for crowd sourcing donations.