How to Make a Professional Short Film in Lowest Budget (Prem Dev Dileep)

Hi, Today I wish to share you about 'how to make a Professional Short film in Lowest budget' & which theme is best for that.


So first i recommend you to write down a Short script (below 20 pages) for romance genre/comedy/humor. Your film must include Drama as Prime Genre, because you have to tell the story through dialogues (which is generally called 'Drama'). Means either 2 person's interaction story in a same place live, or 2 personal interaction story through over the phone ( Actually this will be very easy to do for un professional beginner Actors (because no need of making chemistry physically between the actors(Most of the Beginner female Actors  shy or hesitate to do combination or chemistry with co-actors(hero),If you have a hero & heroine who are intimate friends or lovers then it will be great for you to use that opportunity to use them for intimating scenes with good chemistry. Hope you will not confused about chemistry in film making.

So, 2 character speaking from different interior locations each other over the phone theme is best for making a professional short film in lowest budget. If you choose outdoor scenes,you will be needed much fund for to shoot outdoors (travel expense, food,equipment,frame cleaning etc). The advantage of shooting short film in indoor is you will get more privacy for the production of the project,outsiders will never become an obstacle anyway for your short film production.And you will get opportunity to implement good cinematography by effective lighting with existing natural light source & LED rechargeable Soft Bulb & thermacol as Reflector for light bounce inside the room or whole floor where you planned to shoot your film. And another advantage of shooting indoor is you can create shots with smooth camera movement to the subject by Tripod dolly or using a computer wheel chair also.Another advantage of shooting indoor is,you can record live dialogue of Actors while they are acting using shotgun mic with boom pole or using hidden lavaline microphone & voice recorder.

Also you can use 180 Degree rule & rule of thirds of Cinematography in the framing of shots after blocking the scene for shoot.In Cinema, in order to display a good story dramatically, you need to pay for a manual focus Camcorder honestly.Then only you can focus the subject of the story exactly & clearly without distracting any other background objects in the frame. If you are don't have sufficient fund for buying a manual focus DSLR Camera/Camcorder,you can rent out for one day or two day or according to how many days you wants the camera to finish the production of the project.It is best if you are renting professional cameras for professional Short film making.And one camera is enough for you. And the best advantage of this telephonic conversation theme is the fresh actors can freely behave or perform well in as characters,because actors don'y have to act each other directly. First you can shoot the entire conversation dialogues with performance as character in one interior location,then you can shoot the opposite actor's performance as character speaking over the phone scene from another different interior location.

So make your first Professional short film with applied cinematography in the above mentioned theme after preparing well in all sections (Preproduction,Production Plan, & Post production Plan).you have to think about the post production plan of your short film in advance before your going to shoot the film, otherwise your film will be loosing the overall film look & mood.(Don't forget to apply cinematic color grading to the movie  while editing.Without cinematic color grading your film will never look like a professional movie, it will look like a flat tele video or documentary.And finding a suitable background score according to the subject & genre of your movie also very important in bringing your movie to professional level.

Do as best as possible. Put 100 % percent efficiency to your project. Definitely your hard work will pay off for you one day. 

How to become a Professional ACTOR without going to Acting institute?

Dear Fresher Acting enthusiasts,

Let me share a truth with you. Do you know in this world almost all people love to become a Superstar or heroine in film industry, only thinking about money & celebrity fame value. But the people those who are reaching to film industry are real hard workers, no body can enter film industry without a little effective hard work.

Most of the poor people dreams about becoming a super hero in film industry & make money to live lavishly. Poor people dreams becoming a celebrity only to escape from the poor life only, they don't even think about what acting is! what is the objective of an Actor? They thinks that 'if a producer gives only one chance,they can show something & become a superstar from the next day itself after the release of their movie.

Why they don't think about the Audiences. Every Actor/Acting enthusiasts must first think about the audience.Who are your audience until your first movie is releasing or until you get an opportunity to act in audition of a film.The people around you are your audience, if you are an actor.

Whatever you are performing/ telling a story with behaving must get into the heart of your audience straight away. That is the ultimate goal of every Actors in this world.

A person who never seen a drama in his life, may not become a good Actor. From Drama or any kind of Stage play art fresh actors can learn many things & also they can understand that Acting is an 'ART' not a technology or something.It is true that there is a science behind Acting, but you don't have to be learn the science of acting to become a professional actor anyway.

In real life sometime we do acting to hide something or we tries to hide our real natural emotions sometime for escaping from someone or not to hurt someone,or not to let someone find what's happening inside our mind.

Like that only in a Story a character will be doing or feeling. So that time being you are an actor you need to duplicate the same situational emotion which happened in your past life.

Observe your life & your surroundings,especially how people are interacting each other,how some people speaks or communicates in a different way of style,& how their body language differs from others.Observe how an un educated Tea shop keeper behaves & highly educated business man behaves. Find the differences in behavior,speaking tone, dress sense,costume,attitude,intelligence & body language.

First observe different characters around you,then try to imitate their characters or expressions,way of speaking & body language. If you practice this imitation method, definitely you will get into known as an ARTIST (Acting Artist), nothing you can achieve without much more practice.

A person who uses his most of the time to play or practice cricket well,then end of the day,definitely he will become a good cricketer, but that doesn't mean that ,it will take him to international cricket team.That will happen only when preparation meets opportunity.

So do watch movies, not only feature films but also both professional & un professional short films too, from un professional short films also you can learn Acting by finding the silly mistakes making by the un professional actors of un professional short films.