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If you've seen Requiem for a Dream, you've seen the snorricam effect - the camera is worn around the actor's waist and as the actor moves it creates a wild camera effect. The guys at Indy Mogul show you how to build your own snorricam.

No light no movie. Indy Mogul teaches you how to create your own basic lighting kit for $25. Also covered are lighting basics, including three-point lighting.

Alan K. from Indy Mogul shows you how to create a your own film production setup including a camera, tripod, and recording media for under $250. Of course this assumes you already have a computer for editing.

Steve Nelson from Indy Mogul shows you how to create cool falling or jumping from a building effect. Use a combination of camera angeles, green screen, and editing to create this cool action effect for your films.

Do you want thicker, more realistic fog from your fog machine? Indy Mogul teaches you how to make realistic, creepy fog special fx for your films for under $30

Sometimes a shotgun mic isn't enough. The guys at Indy Mogul show you how to build your own boom pole to help capture better sound for your films.

Do you want to make your actors look older? The guys at Indy Mogul show you how to make aging makeup for under $30.

Planning on shooting a low budget sci fi flick? The guys at Indy Mogul teach you how to make a cyborg arm and eye patch using a PVC coupler, coin tray, thin orange tubing, blue flash controllers, silver bubble wrap, duct tape, a rolodex, and costume jewelry.

Erik from Indy Mogul shows you how to make sugar glass for $20. Sugar glass can be used to create breakable or break away glass FX for your films.

Erik Beck from Indy Mogul shows you how to make a Jim Henson-style puppet for about $25.

In this video series, our expert screen writer Tony Ramirez will show you how to write a screenplay. You will get easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on how to create the cover page, what type of font to use and how to number your pages.

In this Halloween props video series, learn how to make fake blood and other Halloween props from Halloween expert Matt Cail. Matt will show you how to make fake blood for Halloween, using corn syrup and food coloring. He will teach you how to make Halloween props such as fake arms, and how to stuff the arms to give a realistic effect.

Director, M dot Strange, explains how formulating ideas is the most important part of film making, no technical skills.

This video will help you understand the pre-production process for movies, animations, film shorts, etc.

For making videos at home, a teleprompter would greatly reduce the amount of memorizing lines, cutting and editing. Put together this easy teleprompter and start your own show today.

Ever wonder how actors get bruises that look so real? Learn how to make these bruises and start your own visual effects for movies. Perfect for beginners or advanced make up artists, create real looking bruises for your next Halloween costume.

This is a very quick tutorial on fake crying. Make your eyes well with tears by concentrating your vision above a point of interest and not blinking. It's a super easy way to the real tears effect.

Learn how to make monster shadow puppets with paper and polycarbonate. Paper puppets are cheaper and faster to make, but there is a professionalism about polycarbonate shadow puppets that can't be matched. Go and create a show.

You can learn how to make a cheap green screen in your home for chroma key effect. You will need a wall, a green poster frieze paper, masking tape, and blu-tac. You can use Abobe Premiere to chroma key effects on to the green screen backdrop.

You can learn how to create single frame animation by shooting many photos with a digital camera and lining them up properly for editing. The video should run at 30 frames per second and you have to manually control the camera's settings.

Want to make your own documentary? Voice-over is a big part of any documentary. Learn how to record voice-overs in this Israel Hyman's video tutorial. Even if you're not making a documentary, you may find other times you need a voice-over, and this video will give you the tools to do it.

Gigi works with Margaret and Melissa to sew Blinkey, a green fuzzy hand puppet.

Israel Hyman is a weekend videographer headquartered in Mesa, Arizona. Here he demonstrates "The Rule of Thirds" to help you make your own home videos look better. The Rule of Thirds is a principle of cinematography that can make all your imagery look better, whether you're working with videos, still photos, or whatever.

Israel Hyman is a weekend videographer headquartered in Mesa, Arizona. In this video, he demonstrates how to use "Depth of Field" to make your digital video look better. Yes, learn how to achieve "dreamy" and film-like quality on your video!

Sound is an important element in any video. But what is the essential sound equipment, and how do you use it? Israel Hyman goes over his equipment (and other pieces) and describes the different components, how to get them and how they work.

Impress your friends and neighbors by learning how to speak with an authentic pirate accent. Also included are pirate grammar and vocabulary. Practice hard enough and you should be ready for September 19th (International Talk Like a Pirate Day)!

Paul Volniansky shows us the basics of film editing in this series of videos.

In this series of instructional how-to videos, our expert teaches you all about theater games for kids. Get great ideas for introducing theater techniques to children of all ages. Watch a special introduction to theater games from our expert actor. Learn about different acting and theater exercises such as mirror exercises, facial expression exercises, mood games, music games, and prop games. Teach a child how to perform a monologue or a one-sided conversation. Watch as our expert guides you on...