How to make a short film in 5 steps.

Guilherme Henrique Ern
2 min readNov 29, 2022

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The introduction

So, In this ‘’newsletter’’ going to talk about how it was to make the short stop motion ‘’lullaby’’ explained in 5 steps.

Step 1: The first step was to gather my colleagues and together we worked on the script itself, focusing on the charisma and story of each character created there.

Step 2: The second step was to get the materials for the production that would come in handy in a few weeks.

Step 3: The third step was to do the production and recording with the ‘’Canon’’ camera that we rented from a friend

Step 4: The fourth step was to record the sound of the electric guitar and piano, transferring the audio directly to the computer to give more ambience to the recorded scenes.

Step 5: The fifth and final stage is the most difficult, requiring a minimum knowledge of programming, photo editing and audiovisual stufs to edit the raw content.

Problems: I had several problems with the camera due to lack of study and attention, all coming from the same nature of ‘’electronics’’.

Final tips: If you are thinking of making a short film, be careful when using ‘’Chroma Key’’ technology in your editing, as it can be very bad, badly cropped, time consuming or difficult to do

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