Ryan Connolly's Film Riot channel has been an inspiration to budding filmmakers since 2009 and continues to grow in content, popularity and excellence.
It's a great place to learn about professional filmmaker techniques through the eyes of experimentation and implementation as Ryan talks about and shows us how it's supposed to be done along with DIY methods to achieve the process with very limited means - and a whole lot more.
The wide open architecture of the channel allows them to shuffle around from topic to topic, whether actually related or not, and then pop in a really fun short film with behind the scenes episodes on making it. Absolutely Brilliant!
My first introduction to the channel came from the VFX class I attended to show a particular set of great tutorials and demonstrations using HitFilm Express, the free version of this great software.
Here's that first series that I saw:
