Web Resources

Video Production

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/ – News, reviews and tutorials on anything to do with the latest in film/video production.

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/ – The largest forum for Indie film-makers I’ve seen so far. If you need a question answered on any video subject, chances are you’ll get plenty of worthwhile replies and advice on here.

http://www.dv.com/ – Similar to Studio Daily in content. Has nice reviews on equipment and software and lots of industry related news and articles.

http://freshdv.com/ – Very proactive site that do plenty of their own in depth reviews on cameras and equipment. They also provide the most excellent video tutorials on the web on plenty of film-making related topics.

Sound Designers & Composers

http://www.filmsound.org/articles/designing_for_sound.htm – A great article on “Designing a Movie For Sound”, by Randy Thom

http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=77 – The most comprehensive and most importantly, free tutorials for the budding composer wanting to learn the “Principles of Orchestration” by Rimsky-Korsakov.

Visual FX – Tutorials

http://filmmakeriq.com/general/featured/1001-adobe-after-effects-tutorials.html – 1001 Free After Effects Tutorials

http://www.videocopilot.net/ – The best After Effects tutorial site period. Andrew Kramer not only provides professional compositing and visual fx techniques, he also provides a laugh. He also kindly provides beginner tutorials for those just starting out.

http://forums.creativecow.net/ – One of the pioneers of sites offering free tutorials. The catalogue of different tutorials here are staggering and the helpful forums will provide any answer you’re looking for.

http://maltaannon.com/ – Relatively new After Effects tutorial site that offers more advanced AE techniques.

Visual FX – News and Articles

http://www.vfxworld.com/

http://www.fxguide.com/index.php

http://www.vfxblog.com/

http://www.vfxtalk.com/

Worthwhile Blogs

http://prolost.blogspot.com/ – Stu Maschwitz Blog. This guy is the zen master of indie film-making. His book “DV Rebel’s Guide”, is THE handbook to get if you are serious about this sort of thing. His credentials such as being a founder of visual fx house “The Orphanage” and working at ILM are nothing to sneeze at.

http://blog.flowseeker.com/ – The blog of Mark Christiansen, the author of “After Effects cs3 – Professional Studio Techniques.” If you don’t know, AE (After Effects) is the tool of choice for indie film-makers wanting to do big visual fx for their own films. This guy shows us how the pros use it.

http://www.digitalgypsy.com/vfxlog/ – Aruna works at Digital Domain as a Nuke compositor. He has worked on some pretty impressive movies and gives a good insight on what goes on at one of the world’s best vfx houses.

http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/ – A good blog on things to do with editing.

http://www.hdforindies.com/

http://motionographer.com/ – The place to go for Motion Graphics inspiration.