# Cyber Film School

> Where the fundamentals live. No hacks. No fluff.

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## Posts

- [Six Transition Points For Seamless Edits](https://cyberfilmschool.com/six-transition-points-for-seamless-edits/): Plan your shots for scene coverage, but also visualize the cutting points (transitions) between shots so the editor can make ‘invisible’, or 'continuity' cuts.
- [Screenplay Formatting](https://cyberfilmschool.com/screenplay-formatting/): The critical importance of properly formatted screenplays, how to adhere to that formatting and pitfalls to avoid when putting your concept into script form.
- [Script Evaluation & Feedback](https://cyberfilmschool.com/script-evaluation/): Evaluating your own screenplay depends on the quality of questions you ask yourself, making the difference between pulling the plug or moving forward. 
- [Story Structure Clarifies The Concept](https://cyberfilmschool.com/story-structure/): If you have trouble shaping your film's concept into a narrative, think of how your screenplay should be structured and what you're trying to say. 
- [Character Development](https://cyberfilmschool.com/character-development/): Character motivation drives your screenplay forward. If you don't know your character, you don't know why anything in your screenplay happens – and you are lost.
- [Story Premise and Originality](https://cyberfilmschool.com/story-premise-and-originality/): Originality is the most powerful weapon of the independent filmmaker, and a creative, original script is your best shot at beating Hollywood.
- [Post Production Rules of Thumb](https://cyberfilmschool.com/post-production-rules-of-thumb/): How long it takes to edit a film relies on some informal guidelines that keep post-production in perspective by drawing parameters around budget and schedule.
- [Post Production Workflow](https://cyberfilmschool.com/post-production-workflow/): The editor's workflow through the six steps of post production; ingesting and logging, rough cut, fine cut, titling, picture lock, sound track.
- [Three Pitfalls of the Editor](https://cyberfilmschool.com/three-pitfalls-of-the-editor/): Beginner editors often make the same mistakes when cutting their projects. Here are three pitfalls to which newcomers can fall victim, and how to avoid them.
- [The Editor's Role](https://cyberfilmschool.com/the-editors-role/): The film editor is a key creative storyteller, the director's trusted ally who influences the visual story by 'sculpting' the film with a fresh pair of eyes.
- [Introduction to Post-Production Sound](https://cyberfilmschool.com/introduction-to-post-production-sound/): When it comes to the quality of a well-made film that connects its with an audience, crappy sound will kill any visual magic you worked so hard to show off.
- [Film Sound Design & Effects](https://cyberfilmschool.com/film-sound-design/): Film sound design serves the fantasy or hyper-reality that is your film's universe, i which the sound designer creates complex and multi-dimensional sound.
- [Music And The Short Film](https://cyberfilmschool.com/music-and-the-short-film/): How to obtain the right music for your piece, composing a score around music cues, sample based music, and working with (and without) a composer.
- [Post Production Sound Work Flow](https://cyberfilmschool.com/post-production-sound-work-flow/): The six steps of post production sound -Picture Lock, Dialogue, Sound Design, Composition, Mixing, Mastering, and the team of film artists that executes them.
- [4. Editing the Narrative Short](https://cyberfilmschool.com/editing-the-narrative-short/): Make no mistake – Editing is Filmmaking. Editors are filmmakers with a command of visual story-telling with an emotional read on the material. Use them wisely.
- [Making Realistic Fake Blood](https://cyberfilmschool.com/making-fake-blood/): Here are two realistic fake blood recipes for filmmakers looking for real gore & more ick – a corn syrup base for oozing blood and a flour formula for splatter.
- [Writing Screen Action - Part One](https://cyberfilmschool.com/writing-action-part-one/): What makes a screenplay cinematic is rarely in dialog. The magic lies how action is portrayed - what to write, how to write it, and how to format action .
- [Build Your Film Shot List Like A Pro](https://cyberfilmschool.com/building-your-shot-list/): What is a shot list? If you don’t know where to begin, get a read on the emotional content as you study the script, and imagine how the shots play out.
- [Teaching the 'Tough-to-Teach': This Alternative Education Film Class Unites a Community](https://cyberfilmschool.com/alternative-education-film-class/): Before he was a producer and TV personality, teacher-adventurer Adam Palmer's Alternative Education film class turned around some pretty 'tough-to-teach' teens.
- [Screen Dialogue As Character](https://cyberfilmschool.com/speech-as-character/): A film character's screen dialogue should be written as a language to be spoken and heard, but many beginner screenwriters mistakenly write speech to be 'read.'
- [15 Freelancer Survival Tips](https://cyberfilmschool.com/15-freelancer-survival-tips/): Your first freelance job on a film crew can be nerve-wracking. Here are 15 survival tips to make sure that first gig isn't your last.
- [Finding the Right Producer](https://cyberfilmschool.com/finding-the-right-producer/): Marketing a script is harder than writing it. Try these two approaches to landing the right producer for your work: the Target Method and the Shotgun Approach.
- [Build the Character's Off-Screen Life](https://cyberfilmschool.com/build-the-characters-off-screen-life/): This screenwriting assignment helps build the character's ‘off-screen’ life with details that inform the character's response to circumstances as you write.
- [Premise vs. Theme: Know the Difference–Your Screenplay Depends On It](https://cyberfilmschool.com/premise-vs-theme-know-the-difference/): It seems that arguments break out over the meaning of Premise vs Theme. Truth is, it's not that complicated–they arise from your writing and guide the process.
- [Vertical Screenwriting For An Easier Read](https://cyberfilmschool.com/vertical-writing-for-a-quick-to-read-screenplay/): Vertical screenwriting is a formatting style that uses white space and other formatting traits to make a screenplay easier to read for busy producers & agents.
- [Continuity Editing – When Shots Don't Match](https://cyberfilmschool.com/continuity-editing-when-shots-dont-match/): What could be a frightful continuity error for a newbie, is a fresh challenge for pro editor who focuses on performance to solve it. With editor Dede Allen.
- [Scene Coverage: You Can't Film It All](https://cyberfilmschool.com/scene-coverage-you-cant-film-it-all/): Scene coverage means filming a scene from many angles to get enough shots for the editor, but an entire scene on each angle burns time – and burns out actors.
- [Minimalist Screenplay for Maximum Punch](https://cyberfilmschool.com/minimalist-screenplay-for-maximum-punch/): Less is more: Learn some minimalist screenplay writing techniques that successful screenwriters use to streamline dialogue and action for a more efficient read.
- [Writing Is Rewriting: Being Bad is Legit](https://cyberfilmschool.com/writing-is-rewriting/): Many beginner screenwriters in the early stages forget that "being bad" is legitimate the best writers in the land wrote drafts that needed tons of rewriting.
- [Making Sense of Screenplay Format](https://cyberfilmschool.com/making-sense-of-screenplay-format/): If you aren't confused by the rules of screenplay format, you haven't been paying attention. Today's choice format for spec screenplays took years to get there.
- [The Query Letter: Sell Your Screenplay](https://cyberfilmschool.com/the-query-letter-sell-your-screenplay/): After the screenplay, the producer query letter is the screenwriter's most important work. Learn the four key paragraphs that can open doors to the marketplace.
- [Screen Continuity](https://cyberfilmschool.com/screen-continuity/): If there's one argument with repeat-offender status on the film set, it's got to be over screen continuity – and not just for new filmmakers. Pros go at it too.
- [Scene Design: Exit Late, Leave Early](https://cyberfilmschool.com/enter-late-leave-early/): Exit Late and Leave Early is a filmic storytelling concept that screenwriters and film editors must learn early to trim the fat from a first draft or rough cut.
- [Writing Screen Action - Part Two](https://cyberfilmschool.com/writing-action-part-two/): Action is the cinematic part of your screenplay. This follow-up to Part One shows how writing pros format action in filmic beats without insulting the director.
- ["Don't Do a Short Film!"](https://cyberfilmschool.com/dont-do-a-short-film-dov-simens/): Film teaching guru Dov Simens breaks down the low-budget formula, from script to production, as a system. Now let's stop being scared of the word 'feature.'
- [The Rhythms of Act One](https://cyberfilmschool.com/the-rhythms-of-act-one/): In a three-act screenplay Act One needs to accomplish a lot in very little time, with a "call to action" that moves the main character into the story's spine. 
- [The Grunt Work of Act Two](https://cyberfilmschool.com/the-grunt-work-of-act-two/): In a three-act screenplay, Act Two is where structural problems commonly invade the script more than anywhere else, and tilt the entire story out of focus.
- [The Challenge of Act Three](https://cyberfilmschool.com/the-challenge-of-act-three-2/): Act Three is so important that many screenwriting teachers advise students not to write until the final act is clear - know your ending before you begin.

## Pages

- [Cinema is a Language](https://cyberfilmschool.com/): Great filmmakers don't show their hand. They move audiences through deliberate craft — invisible technique, real emotion. That's what we teach.
- [Gift It Today](https://cyberfilmschool.com/gifting-cyber-film-school/): Gift Cyber Film School from your Mac, PC or iOS device. For your emerging filmmaker, intern - even for yourself. All through iTunes.
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- [About Us](https://cyberfilmschool.com/about-us/): Cyber Film School is a first-year film education for iPhone, iPad & Mac. Not trends. Not hacks. The real fundamentals of cinema–rigorously and affordably taught.
- [The Writer’s Room - Screenwriting wisdom and hard truths.](https://cyberfilmschool.com/learn-screenwriting/): Learn Screenwriting basics with this Mini Course, plus articles on Three Act Structure, Speech as Character, writing Action, and Screenplay Formatting.
- [Navigating Our New  Learning System](https://cyberfilmschool.com/navigating-our-new-learning-system/): A video guide to the "Getting Started" chapter of the beta update of Cyber Film School's MultiTouch Learning System, coming 2021 on Apple Books.
- [Importance of Scene Coverage](https://cyberfilmschool.com/importance-of-scene-coverage/): Three Oscar-winning film editors – Stephen Mirrione, Anne Coates, and William Goldenberg explain scene coverage and why you should always cover a scene.
- [Directing](https://cyberfilmschool.com/directing/): The director is the creative center that motivates a team. These articles cover some basics that may help realize your creative promises.
- [Introduction to Post Production](https://cyberfilmschool.com/introduction-to-post-production/): Grasp the fundamentals of editing as we step through post production of the narrative short film, plus a study of screen continuity and continuity editing.
- [Video Grid Gallery](https://cyberfilmschool.com/video-grid-gallery/)
- [Video Gallery](https://cyberfilmschool.com/video-gallery/)
- [The Sound Track](https://cyberfilmschool.com/the-sound-track-post-production-sound/): A Mini course that steps us through the Production Sound work flow in the creation of a film’s sound track - dialogue, sound effect, music, and mix.
- [Case Studies](https://cyberfilmschool.com/in-the-classroom-case-studies/): This case study and student testimonials reveal Cyber Film School's impact on school & community-at-large – a testament to the power of filmmaking studies.
- [Articles](https://cyberfilmschool.com/articles/): Browse, Read and Share articles from our archives and excerpts from our latest learning system.
- [Clients](https://cyberfilmschool.com/clients/): Clients - Teachers, students and filmmakers, past and present, review Cyber Film School.
- [Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky](https://cyberfilmschool.com/joe-berlinger-bruce-sinofsky/): Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky share their approach to producing their hit films 'Paradise Lost', ‘Brother’s Keeper’ and ‘Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.’
- [Alice Guy-Blanché – Film Pioneer](https://cyberfilmschool.com/alice-guy-blanche-film-pioneer/): Before DW Griffith made a name for narrative film, French-born Alice Guy-Blanché was a film pioneer both as director and American movie mogul.

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- [Sound](https://cyberfilmschool.com/category/sound/)
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- [Mini Lesson Screenplay](https://cyberfilmschool.com/category/screenwriting/mini-lesson-screenplay/)
- [Writer Support Articles](https://cyberfilmschool.com/category/screenwriting/writer-support-articles/)
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- [Post Production](https://cyberfilmschool.com/category/post-production/)