- Painting a Faux Copy of an Artistic Masterpiece for Filmmaking
I have a technique that I’ve used several times to fake expensive paintings as background props. If you don’t have any painting experience, have an art student do it for best results. - Generate Date-Time for Podcast, Vodcast, or RSS Feed from Microsoft Office
The RSS date/time format is a pain to create if you are building the XML for your RSS feed in a text editor. To make things simple, I created a single line of VBA code that would generate a properly formatted RFC 822 date string that can be used in your RSS feed file. - Shooting Food -- Filming Food So It Looks Good Enough To Eat
I've worked a number of movie shoots with eating scenes and they can be very difficult because of perishable food items. Since the object is to make the food always look good (even if it is barely on the screen), there are special challenges in shooting edibles. And if you're filming a feast, the food should look perfect! - The Truth About Debt Management
Myth: The debt management companies on TV, like AmeriDebt, will save me.
Truth: You may get out of debt, but only with your credit trashed. - Making a Prop Sword Look Real to the Camera
On one film I worked, I needed a Celtic sword and the director wanted some runes on the blade. Obviously buying a real sword would have been expensive and I couldn’t
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