Using a good video budget template is an important part of creating as accurate a budget as you can prior to creating your video. We'll show you how to use our video budget template, how to create your own, how to determine what your costs will be, and important tips we've discovered from years of producing video.

Everyone's on Zoom calls these days but you're in the Pull My Focus world. We jazz it up using OBS to Zoom Video over a network. How? Using the NDI protocol from NewTek.

Knowing the names of the different types of camera shots is important but how do you decide when to use them? Would a close-up, medium close-up or medium shot work best for this scene? Should I use over the shoulder shots for a conversation? And what if the characters are not even facing each other? We'll show you the differences and the why to help you decide what shots work best for your projects.

As a follow up to our storyboarding video, Frank covers simple exercises to help you create expressions for your storyboard characters. Whether you draw stick figures or use Storyboarder, adding expressions is as easy as 1, 2, 3. No seriously, 1 for eyebrows, 2 for eyes, 3 for a mouth, you’ve got an expressio

Video can be a difficult craft that requires some technical know how but also countless creative choices the require you to think like your viewer. Want to know a few good tips to help you improve how you make your videos and how they’re watched?

Frank asks you when a storyboard would be helpful and why, and shows how to create storyboards and animatics using paper, the app Paper, and this new, amazing, free program Storyboarder that actually, really works. OMG, he is not joking.

You don’t need to create beautiful storyboards for the world to see, just okay ones that allow you and your editing and team to figure out if the shots you plan to shoot will give you the vision you see in your head. 

On the surface, a shot list communicates what coverage you intend for a scene. But we all know once you get to set, something always has to give. You either lose, combine or even add shots to ensure you have coverage by the end of your shoot day.
 

Today we’re going to show you how to break down a script: the traditional way they’ve done it in Hollywood forever, how it's changed in the digital age and how to pare it down and modify it a bit for your shorter indie projects. 

The standard script format doesn’t work for all situations so the AV 2-column script was born. We’ll show you how to create, format and use an AV script for your video projects. 

For some of you, the idea of creating a budget may be daunting. Where to start? what if my numbers are off? I hate numbers! I hate math! Look I hear you and I used to be the same way. But here’s the thing. You know how shot lists always seem to change when you’re on set, but because you created them ahead of time, you’re able to adjust your shots on the fly? You’re prepared for the curve balls that filmmaking always seem throw at us. Well it’s the same thing with budgets.