Recent content by Pikmeir

if it could get up to 24fps i might pick one of these up, even if that means one roll of film would only get me 6 seconds. 6 seconds would be enough per shot for some small projects.

Get a car, if you want to make movies and not be limited to a 1-block radius from where you live. Buy a top of the line desktop PC for $800 (better power than a Mac anyway) and get Vegas, and spend the rest on a car. Computers die after a few years. Cars will last a lot longer than that. Plus...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jONQXAeWQ8 My wife got a wooden doll from Cuba for a birthday present from her brother, so I thought it would be fun to make a fake trailer for a horror flick using the doll.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LLzFG1nGxA "Tokyo Night" normally america remakes japanese horror movies and screws them up. in this case, japan remade the american "paranormal activity 2" but with a japanese flair, and i think it's probably better (even though i never saw paranormal activity...

Here's my input. There were a lot of things I liked and a few things I didn't. Things I especially liked: The acting. Very well done by everyone. The repeating steadycam shots going up the stairs looked very interesting, and made me wonder "who's walking up the stairs?" - I assume that was your...

I wrote an outline for a humorous (at least to myself) crime-centered short film a couple years ago, and haven't ever been able to make it. I won't post the whole thing here, but I'll give parts of it and if you're interested I can send you the whole outline and info sheet I wrote for it (I...

Yeah, I definitely see it as a factor, but at the same time, when you're working with free actors/actresses there's only so much charisma that will help you. There's a point where if the actor doesn't want to do it, even Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg couldn't get them to (without a...

That's kind of what I meant.... If you want to jump into the industry, you won't get a well paying job unless you already know people, so you'll have to start at the very bottom, and it might take a long time to work your way up to a normal level where you're making enough to support yourself...

I have to agree with everyone else here. I'm from LA myself. It's not any more dangerous than any other city. In some ways, it's less dangerous than other cities. At night time, I wouldn't want to walk around by myself, or leave my car unlocked, but during the daytime it seems completely safe...

This sounds a lot like a filming shoot I did a month ago. Unfortunately, we only shot a few minutes of it, and because we had to rush through the whole thing (actors suddenly saying at the start of the shoot that they only had 1 hour to film when originally they told me their whole day was free)...

i have a whole book full of story ideas but i cant seem to pop out a single decent script. i work better when i have to complete a film as part of a project than if i merely have free time, but when i have to do a project i always feel pressed for time and cant put my all into a project. wish i...

I've got lots of ideas (ideas are a dime a dozen they say) but can't write dialogue well, else I'd help out. btw, mrbigchin you're not related to Jay Leno are you? :p