Wesley's Weekly HOW TO: Fake Rocks
So you want to smash a boulder over one of your actors head, but you don't want that to be the final scene of their career? The answer is obvious, you need a fake rock.


Then I started gluing...
So you want to smash a boulder over one of your actors head, but you don't want that to be the final scene of their career? The answer is obvious, you need a fake rock.


Then I started gluing...
As a big fan of the show, I wanted to introduce our very own DIY project "Drawn by Pain" that's been a few years in the making. It's half HD live action/half Animated and lots of running around trying to make something cool. It's a drama - yeah I know - NOT FUNNY! The first ten episodes are on our site - with a new one to be released next week. We'd love it if you stopped by.
Hello everyone! You all know how hard it is to get your production going. You start writing your script, you start calling all your friends and family to cash in all those favors they owe you, you arrange for days for everyone to come by and shoot, only to have everybody cancel. Well check out this guy. He is an English filmmaker who has vowed to make an entire feature length film on his own!...
I can say with full certainty, that our current POM, Bridger, is setting the bar VERY VERY high for the next election. Here's one of many things he's up to in the Presidential Forums.
This was probably one of the toughest weeks of competition we've ever had for the 5 Minute Movie House, there was a great viewer response, and a lot of really fantastic submissions, but after a long fight there was only one left standing, this weeks victor was the very funny short "Kessel Run", by G. Jesse Martinez.
Its a bunch of nerds racing to get to ComicCon to stop one of...


The Legend of the Scarecrow from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.
This short film was created using various 2D and 3D elements in After Effects and it looks like something out of a Tim Burton film. It's in Spanish though and unfortunately there are no subtitles. Which sucks because I don't remember anything from 9th grade Spanish class. You can learn more about how he created...


Hello everyone and welcome to the Build Plans for Episode 46: DIY DOLLY.
Shopping List:
1. 6" fixed pneunatic casters x2.
(If you can't find something like this at your local hardware store you can get them online.)
2. 6" swivel pneunatic caster.
(If you can't find something like this at your local hardware store you can get them online.)
3. A piece of 3/4" scrap plywood at...
Wow! We had so many great submissions this week to 5 Minute Movie House, but this short "The Darjeeling Method" by Jordan Montreuil, Michael Kutcher, Zak Van Winkle, David Albright, and Sam, just won me over.
But please, keep them coming in, sign-up on the forums and submit your short film to the competition.