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 ...