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First let me ask you a couple questions: 1) What is your overall goal? 2) What do you have to offer? What is the quality of what you have to offer? 3) What are you currently working on? 4) How thorough is your current understanding of the business? 5) What books have you read? 6) What similar...

some alternatives If you can find a used wheelchair, that will help you with standard pushes and pulls and anything really that is linear. Of course, you'll also need to be on a relatively smooth floor. And it's not very easy to guide a perfect circle if you're dying for that camera move. Some...

Interesting question. I would say, "no." Found footage isn't necessarily the same. If you drew a Venn diagram you'd see a lot of overlap, but here's where the two styles are different... In a "found footage" movie you can have scenes shot from many different cameras: security cameras, other...

Huh? Directorik, sorry, but I think you misread my post. I didn't say anything about your "personality." I said your minimum pay is a hardline at 750... and I used the word "personally" in reference to me NOT having any disrespect toward a guy who uses that number. I truly believe we all have...

There is a lot of great info already posted but I just wanted to throw my two cents in: 1) Actress and models are EXTREMELY insecure. The hotter they are, the more insecure they are. What you do with this info is your own choice. You can exploit this fact like a weapon to get what you want or...

If you just google around you'll find quite a few sites that offer cheap little generic budget templates. Reel Grok is one... www.reelgrok.com. Directorik, while I do respect your hardline stance at $750, you may be interested to know that there are quite a few line producers who were happy to...

You'd have to be brilliant to make this work. Are you brilliant? Maybe. But I just want to be clear that monotony will start to be a factor after the first five minutes or so. That means the key is how well do you break things up. 1) Are there interesting new characters coming in and out of...

This is actually a great question. I'm sure it might bother some purists who believe art should be unfettered. And in many case, I agree, art should have no rules. But commercial art... Selling your art in today's marketplace means you gotta follow some rules. If you're looking to sell your...

In general 4 is the most. But the real key is stand back and squint at your script and see if each page looks different visually. That may sound like a pathetic joke but the truth is that you need to break up your pages visually. Long paragraphs followed by short paragraphs followed by quick...

I'm not really sure what your situation is but $200 for an internet budget sounds like a rip off. You mentioned the number $3000. Why so high? Are you looking to hire an LP throughout the shoot or are you simply looking to get a professional-grade budget? I'm guessing you just need the budget...

Definitely second Lucky's answer. You can't have your PA's do this job. I'm guessing you're a producer or line producer or UPM, yes? The thing you should really keep in mind is that "simple passenger vehicles" is almost an oxymoron. If your PA-driver gets in an accident with actors in the...

Yes'm If you're formatting your script for studios, the thing you need to realize is that the first army of people who read you script will be the assistants. The almight Readers. They are all the same. They are all named Amber or Megan. They are 26. They just graduated from college last...

Very Doable You can definitely get decent gear for under $10,000. By "decent," I mean that you could create broadcast quality material. The question is "Are YOU going to be skilled enough to create films that are above the level of hobbyist." Even if you spent $50,000 on equipment, if you lack...

cool Great idea. Like a Morgan Spurlock sort of thing. Probably will create something of solid interest. Be safe. Shanked

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