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PHOTO CREDIT: Steven Spielberg, IMDB Create a Great Film or Video for Less Money: Helpful tips for creating convincing in-camera visual effects on low budget film and video projects. With the advent of online video hosting engines, reality television, and the myriads of eager students flooding film and art schools, nearly every amateur with a camera believes that he or she can become the next Oscar-winning director of the year. However, few students and beginning film auteurs have the multi-million dollar budgets of Hollywood film studios and so-called independent studios. Expensive cameras, special effects labs, music production, and video editing software can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, not to mention actors, lighting equipment, sound equipment, etc. However, being low-budget does open up the possibilities of creativity and innovation. There are many ways to imitate costly computer effects in-camera without having to spend the extra cash. HOMEMADE CAMERA ...

MUSIC SECRETS EXCLUSIVE: Is Being an Indie Musician Right for You? An indie musician or music composer today needs to learn these three must-read tips regarding technology, media, and music marketing to make it in the ever changing music industry. Top tips from a music professional.  Media technology has enabled industrialized nations and nations that have made significant recent technological advances to develop new and innovative ways of expressing music. Musicians use everything from video games to the internet to apps to interactive multimedia works to bring music and the arts to a higher level of interactive experience and artistry. Rock Band and Reverbnation For example, the popular video game Rock Band allows indie bands to submit music for the online video game store through a music distributor called Reverbnation. An independent musician can have their music played on the video game console along with Metallica, the Beatles , and Green Day! Video games are cha...