Here Are the 2018 Oscar Nominations [COMPLETE LIST]

Find out which films are nominated for the 90th Academy Awards.

After months of campaigning, the nominations for the 90th Academy Awards have finally arrived. Here is the complete of nominees:

This Infographic Gives You 30 Ways to Brainstorm Film Ideas

Can't seem to spark any new film ideas? This infographic will help.

Isn't life good when your brain seems to be a wellspring of creativity and good ideas? Yeah—and then the tap runs dry and your brain shrivels up into what is basically a crunched up piece of paper with shitty ideas and life, you begin to realize, has no meaning. To avoid this kind of nihilism, it'd benefit us all to learn a few ways to combat this creatively arid season, and StudioBinder has just the resource to help you.

Watch: 5 Helpful Tips on How to Shoot During Golden Hour

How do you capture the most beautiful hours of the day? 

Sunrise and sunset aren't just for lovers, you guys. They're also for filmmakers who want to capture some beautiful shots with gorgeous, soft, warm lighting. However, capturing footage during "Golden Hour" or "Magic Hour" can be difficult because, as we all know, the sun is master to no one and being able to plan for, control, and adjust to its ever-changing quality of light requires a little bit of know-how. In this video from Pond5, you'll get to learn several tips that will have you shooting scenes during Golden Hour with confidence and excitement. Check it out below:

4 Creative In-Camera Transitions You've Got to Try

Spice up your videos with these sexy in-camera transitions. 

Wipes, fades, and traditional cuts serve an important purpose in filmmaking, but every now and again it's nice to add a little flavor to your work with a stylized transition. You can do some crazy stuff in post, but if you want to save time and do it all in-camera, then you'll want to check out this video by Darious Britt of D4Darious. In it he shows you how to pull off four dope in-camera transitions that you can do 100% handheld, no stabilizers or special camera gear required (unless you feel so inclined). Check it out below:

Watch: Using Cinematography to Craft Story in 'Nightcrawler'

Discover how Robert Elswit's cinematography places the viewer inside the troubled mind of a media scavenger.

Dan Gilroy's 2014 debut film Nightcrawler stars Jake Gyllenhaal in one of his creepier roles as Lou, an increasingly reclusive and paranoid Los Angeles "stringer"—the term for a freelance photojournalist who sells his (violent/disturbing) footage to TV stations. It's a mostly nocturnal profession, and as the movie progresses, Lou retreats further into the darkness, taking an emotional as well as a visual journey that is charted by the cinematography of Robert Elswit, the Academy Award winning DP of There Will Be Blood. In this video, Jack of Jack's Movie Reviews shows how this journey visually unfolds.

Watch: How Sergei Eisenstein Used Montage to Film the Unfilmable

Find out how the "Father of Montage" changed filmmaking forever.

If you happened to look something up today, you might've noticed a familiar face on the Google Doodle. That's because January 22, 2018 marks what would've been the 120th birthday of Sergei Eisenstein, the Soviet filmmaking pioneer that helped usher in the modern age of movie making and film editing. If you're not well acquainted with the Latvian director, this video essay from One Hundred Years of Cinema will not only help you get up to speed on his many cinematic contributions but also explain what Soviet montage theory is and how it changed the way we make films today.
In the beginning, films were essentially a single shot of, say, a train arriving in a station or workers leaving a factory, that is until "continuity editing" came along. This type of editing allowed filmmakers to cut together sequences of film that resembled real-life, rather than the tedious process that goes on behind the camera.

Vissual Storytelling

Storytelling has taken an obvious shape in recent times but visual interpretation has ruined that effort. But this video is meant to put you right and show you how you possibly can tell your story visually and still communicate effectively. How the choice of gadget helps in visual story telling.
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Watch: Where Do Babies Come from (When You're Casting a Movie)?

This video answers a common question among indie filmmakers: how do you cast a baby in a film?

So, you want to employ a baby, huh? Well, guess what, as long as it's for the purpose of acting in your movie you totally can! But you're probably not wondering whether you can or you can't, but how. How in the hell do you cast a baby? Where do they come from? Where do you look? What kinds of legal hoops do you have to jump through in order to keep these precious angels safe and happy and you out of jail? Vox answers all of these burning questions and more in the video below.
It turns out that there are a lot of hoops (i.e. child labor laws) you'll have to jump through in order to cast these adorable near-newborns in your film, but the requirements vary greatly depending on which state you're shooting in. Some states require babies to be at least 15-days-old and restrict the amount of time they can work or even be on set, ranging from the very restrictive (two consecutive on-set hours per day with actual work not exceeding 20 minutes) to the severely lax (6-hour, 6-day work week).