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    Managing expectations for zero-budget projects

    I was just wondering what people's thoughts are on how to manage expectations when working on a zero-budget film (zero budget as in I have to pay my own bus fare and buy my own cappuccino). A couple of years ago someone asked me if I'd help him with a short film which he wanted to make. I...
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    Practical uses for vertical video?

    Like many people, I've hated vertical video from the moment it started to become popular, which is many years ago now. So, I'm just wondering, has anyone here come up with any actual good uses for vertical? I think the best use case I've seen so far was at a gym I used to go to, where they had...
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    How much to sell news footage for?

    Hi everyone. I've mentioned in another topic that I shoot a lot of protests and last year I got some good footage of a riot a few miles from where I live. I've had a couple of enquiries about licensing some of it (including a large national news"paper"). As its not available on stock footage...
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    Opinions: Fake Background Blur

    A few years ago it became quite popular for smartphone cameras to include the option to fake some background blur. I'm just wondering, what are your opinions on this? I find I can usually spot it a mile off, but sometimes they do a good job. Its usually most obvious when they have very wide...
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    Hi, I'm Stephen

    Hi everyone. I've dabbled in video since back in 2002 when DVDs were the next big thing, cost a fortune, took ages to burn, and often resulted in coasters. But for most of the time since then, I've just done still photography. I decided to get back into video more seriously in the late 2010s...
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