Recent content by Swanpond

I like your idea. Here are some tips for the things you asked about: Story/Screenplay: It sounds as though you have your basic idea down. The way it was described I don't imagine very much dialogue to begin with. So you script may just be a more detailed treatment of what you already explained...

Very nice film. I watched some of the others that were on Vimeo as well. Good stuff.

The acting from the big guy at the start is pretty good. His lines seem natural and the dialogue is good. I wasn't crazy about the shaky camera in the first few moments, especially juxtaposed with the extremely still shot of the guy tied up. They looked sort of funny together. I think I...

Don't be afraid to let scenes evolve.

While we were in the making of a serious music video, a couple of my friends and I thought up a comedy short idea and decided to shoot it with no script. I directed and edited the project and acted in the film as well. I play the part of Gilbert Schlocman. The cinematography isn't what I'd...

Someone may have already mentioned this movie but The Descent is a great example of a horror movie that's slow to get started with the actual horror. This is a good reference in my opinion for someone trying to use good writing before the big scare. Neil Marshall is a very talented writer and it...

Welcome.

Welcome to the party.

Oh BTW, I just looked at your footage. It looks really good.

My advice as far as the manual/automatic question goes, would be to shoot in manual. I always shoot in manual because I like to control all aspects of the image. Also, automatic tries to adjust to what's in the middle of the frame, so if you are shooting a darker object anything such as a...

I think it's a personal thing. Whatever you're comfortable with doing; you can wait to buy better stuff or you can go ahead and do it now. I've always been the type to dive in head first and get the best I can afford. The main thing I think everyone here would agree on though is that the best...

Thank you all for your input. I have always went with my gut and perhaps I should keep doing that. I guess the main reason I started this discussion was because I feel comfortable and confident making any kind of movie. And some part of me wondered if I was being misguided in my efforts. I...

I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to describe but it sounds like it could most easily be accomplished with the motion program which comes with final cut studio. If you don't have the full studio package I would suggest experimenting with keyframing and origin changing within your final...

Being a writer/director I sometimes wonder what my main strengths as a storyteller are. Sometimes I feel fairly confident that I understand my artistic voice and other times I don't. As far as serious attempts at films go, I have done two comedies and one comedy/sci-fi up to this point and I...

2001, I'm not sure if you are still having this problem or not but I have an A1 and I use it on both a PC with Premiere Pro CS3 and FCP on my Mac at work. I shot some HDV footage in 24F and hooked it up and was having the same problem. What ended up working for me was to make sure I not only...