Vancouver Film School

For the second year, multiple scholarships will be awarded to aspiring animators to enrol in VFS’s globally recognized Animation programs.

Announcement Highlights: The Animation Career Review Scholarship returns for 2026, foll...

A movie genre is a category based on recurring story elements, conflicts, characters, settings, moods and audience expectations.

Action films promise physical conflict. Mysteries ask audiences to solve or follow a hidden question. Horror aims to create fear, dread or unease. Romance places a developing relationship at the centre of the story.

There is no officia...

Film production has two related meanings.

In the broad sense, it is the complete process of taking a film from an initial idea to a finished work that can reach an audience. That process includes development, planning, filming, editing and distribution.

In the narrower industry sense, production is the period when principal photography takes place: the cast and ...

A biopic is a dramatized film or television production about the life of a real person. It normally uses actors, scripted scenes and reconstructed events rather than relying mainly on interviews or archival footage.

That definition sounds simple. Making a biopic is not.

A human life does not arrive with three acts, a clear villain and a satisfying climax. Filmma...

Production Sound Mixer

Production Sound Mixer: Protecting the Sound Options a Film Keeps

The lead actor’s wireless microphone has started rubbing against the costume.

The boom recording remains clean while the actor faces forward, but a camera move forces the microphone farther away during the end of the scene. The performance is strong. The ...