Welcome to the Film Shortage Blog, where you will find all our latest news, articles and our Weekend Shortlists! We like to keep you updated with fresh content weekly and are always looking for guest or permanent bloggers to help contribute to our site, so if you love to write and have a lot to say on short films (can be anything), send us an email with a few previously written blogs and any ideas you have in mind at admin@filmshortage.com.
A Guide To Choosing The Right Microphone
Today, everyone is a film maker, thanks to the wonderful handheld technology that we carry around with us everywhere. Our phones, tablets and even laptops are capable of recording footage of a quality that can sometimes surprise even the aficionados of the film world. However, though visually these home movies can look pretty good, the [...]
Get a Chance to Direct Uma Thurman In Your Own Short Film
Young up-and-coming filmmakers always dream of being able to have access to a big movie star for their short film, and for the third straight year, Kevin Spacey and his production company Trigger Street Productions in association with Jameson Whiskey will bring this unique opportunity to three lucky filmmakers. Are you one of them? A [...]
A Back To Basics Guide To Using A Shoulder Rig
As a vital piece of filmmaking equipment, anybody who is seriously thinking about directing a film should first learn how to properly use a shoulder rig. Whilst shaky-cam and found footage films may have their moment, when it comes to effectively capturing clear and stable point voyeuristic shots whilst on the go, using a shoulder [...]
Kickstarting Canada
Kickstarter has officially opened its doors to Canada! Now Canadian filmmakers, artists, musicians and gamers can kickstart their own projects from Kickstarter.com/canada. But their projects will not only be exclusive to Canada, they will be listing along side all the other projects on Kickstarter.com, and the mechanics and prices will be the same as everywhere, [...]
See yourself in Arcade Fire’s new interactive video for Reflektor
Montreal band Arcade Fire have done it again. They created a sneaky but successful build up to yesterday’s release date for their new single “Reflektor“. 9.9 at 9 was the scheduled time for the release, but we got surprised a few hours early with not only an mp3 of the song, but also an exciting [...]
We’re on Instagram!
Great news everyone, Film Shortage is now on Instagram! Instagram has opened its doors to filmmakers a few months ago after their biggest update yet allowing to post videos to your stream. Very similar to Vine, the biggest difference between the two, besides the already established massive user-base by Instagram, was the video length with [...]
Turning An Abandoned Italian Theater Into An International Film Festival And Hope For An Entire Town
A couple of months ago we wrote an article about Giulio Vita’s intentions to bring the cinema back to the people of the little Italian town of Amantea. Now the months have past and we are just a day away of Giulio and his Guarimberos big day! Just what have they done? When we first [...]
Red 14 Films’ New Campaign Gives Book Trailers a Makeover
Red 14 Films Has Partnered with Authors Jason Ockert, Matt Bell, Monica Drake, and Scott Dominic Carpenter to Produce Literary Short Films (Book Trailers) for Each of their Most Recent Books Since its inception in 2011, the independent film production company Red 14 Films has produced over forty literary short films, known also as cinematic [...]
Guest Post: New Technologies in Filmmaking
Guest Post by Jade Waddy from Mutinee.com There are many new and innovative technologies and video-sharing platforms which are changing the way films are made. Of these, digital filmmaking, YouTube and the use of smartphones to make films are perhaps the most important today. Digital Filmmaking The process of digital filmmaking has changed how every [...]
Short Sighted: Get Your Film Seen By The People Who Matter
BAFTA, British Council and Shooting People are back in Glasgow this year with their popular annual event on marketing and distributing your short film: Short Sighted. Tues 9 July at 11.00am at CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD A perfect continuation and extension of our last article ‘How To Promote Your Film Online‘ where [...]
