The budding amateur's forever restricted by cost. You'll never get slick looks with cheap equipment and even budget gear's out of the reach of humble amateurs. So why not use a cheap alternative to low end specialist equipment? Professional looks the Blue Peter way is a specialty of Digital Director and exemplified by our very own forum member, The Guru. When Digital Director’s forums held their annual summer video competition, The Guru decided to enter using a palmcorder, and nothing else. No professional ...

We're often asked how to blue screen, so here's a collection of tips posted previously on the forums.
It's harder to correct mistakes than to avoid making them, so starting off on the right foot helps... your background (green or blue screen) should be evenly lit and coloured since what you're going to tell your computer to do is... "take all the pixels with this particular green value and replace it with something else." If the greenscreen has different values then your computer ...

Or how to have a complete breakdown in six months...

Last year some friends of mine came and asked if they could borrow some of my video equipment for a project they wanted to film. On and off over the next few weeks I'd see lights, tripod, a dolly or cables go out in the morning in a van full of excited people and return late at night, returned by a team of weary souls. Six months later I was invited to a party in a pub where they'd set up televisions everywhere, all borrowed of course ...