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    1. A simple little hair/makeup kit for no-budget filmmakers… a crucial weapon against Murphy’s Law
    2. Sharpening your footage in post — in a non-crummy way
    3. Before & after color grading comparison of flat scanned 35mm on the Outpost DVD
    4. Efficient footage filenames when using an external recorder
    5. Using Super 16 lenses on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera: It works for a 1080 HD crop
    6. The simplest way to add production value to your film: Avoid white walls & wardrobe
    7. Best starter filmmaker lenses for mirrorless cameras: Nikon IX rises from the grave
    8. Planning for reflections for highly efficient VFX
    9. Using a car interior as an audio booth
    10. Color-saturated fill light for a better composite
    11. The key to good handheld: The horizon line… particularly with CMOS sensors
    12. Making a crummy “emergency fader/variable ND filter” from RealD glasses
    13. Animating off the (temporal) grid
    14. Panasonic’s GH2: If you’re an aspiring filmmaker then you really really really have no excuse anymore
    15. No-budget inspiration: Blood Tea and Red String, a stop-motion animated feature
    16. Realism in night exterior lighting
    17. No-budget inspiration: Laurel Nakadate’s experimental narrative features The Wolf Knife and Stay The Same Never Change
    18. Paying off location owners with your day job’s free perks
    19. No-budget inspiration: One Thousand Years, a narrative feature
    20. Smoother pans & jib moves
    21. Miniatures/models episode of Movie Magic

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