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Tips For Low Budget Sci-Fi Films!

Quick rundown of low-cost approaches to sci-fi set dressing and props, including reused materials and forced perspective. Aimed at short-film budgets.

Lost Utopia Films · 5 min · Beginner · DES · Production Design · 2022

What you take away

Reuse one household object as a sci-fi prop before buying anything new.

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Science fiction to study

Made for almost nothing

Oscar winners for production design

Books on design

Kit for this lesson

Panasonic LUMIX S5 II — Full-frame, open gate, phase detect at last
Panasonic LUMIX S5 IIX — The S5 II with raw out and ProRes internal
Sony a7 IV — The all-round full-frame hybrid
Canon EOS R6 Mark II — The affordable full-frame RF hybrid
Nikon Z6 III — Partially stacked sensor, N-RAW internal
Rode Blimp — Wind protection and a shock mount in one

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