Practical guides, workflow ideas and production advice from the Boords team.
Method acting describes and summarizes a range of techniques acting teachers use to encourage their students to inhabit their roles fully and bring their characters to life.
Getting your animator job posting right is crucial if you want to attract top animation talent to your company.
The job of an art director is a multifaceted role that pairs creative vision with communication and project management skills that can lead to plentiful career opportunities.
Parallelism is a literary device that repeats grammatical elements to emphasize and create memorable phrases.
B-roll or B-reel refers to alternative footage in film and television production. Today, we use the term A-roll for primary footage less frequently, but still refer to secondary or supplemental footage as B-roll.
Personification is a form of figurative language that describes something non-human with human characteristics in order to make the reader empathize, understand better or immersive themselves in vivid imagery.
Hyperbole uses figurative language to make an overstatement, to create emphasis and can be used for comic effect, to create vivid images, or to convey intensity or emotion.
A euphemism is an indirect expression to avoid a direct reference or a straightforward term. It's commonly to be polite rather than blunt, to soften the blow or to downplay an issue.
Today we’re excited to reveal a new look and feel for Boords.
We’re deeply saddened by the conflict in Ukraine and want to do our bit to offer help to the victims of war there. From March 28 - April 3, we’ll be matching all donations made by Boords users towards humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
Filmmakers old and new love the Dutch angle for its ability to create an instant of disorientation.
Whether you’re looking to become a line producer, or you’re a filmmaker who wants to understand more about a line producer’s job, this piece will tell you everything you need to know.
