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So, somehow the alien knows he will survive a train crash, sacrificing the scientist/teacher, who has evaded being caught by the government while teaching in a school that happens to be on the train tracks that the government chooses years later, blah, blah, blah. It has plot holes, it has...

Don't use a real actor - directorik is right; there are too many issues regarding image rights, etc. to contend with, unless you can contact the actual actor and get a release. Make the book written by an actor in your characters' reality. They look up to "Lance Anyman" as if he was "Alec...

As an audience member, I want a STORY that makes sense or connects with me - this film has a million holes and problems. (potential SPOILERS follow) The schoolteacher drives on the tracks with his pickup, is hit head on by a train at full speed, explodes, and then the driver, moments later...

Black garbage bags. They are cheap, seal out the sun efficiently, and you can tear them down and throw them away inside themselves at the end of the shoot. gelder

Are you trying to get a smooth, controlled shot on the way down, of the effect of someone's POV as they fall...? For the first, I'd suggest a rig that supports the camera on a platform and has wheels that touch the interior of the pipe, almost like you're using the inside of the pipe as a dolly...

Ditto - packaging and film look great! gelder

Watching the original series in syndication as a kid, it always struck me that Spock was the most emotional "non-emotional" character I had ever seen. He was constantly showing emotion - sad when he thought his friends were dead, happy when Kirk wasn't dead, etc. It seemed like they showed him...

Saw this about a week ago - I wasn't as blown away as some of the people I sat with. It's a good movie - it might have been a great movie if it had been released in 1982...as it is, it feels like a story that has been told before, with characters I've seen before, in a plot I've watched before...

I've never had any issues like this. I've also never had anyone on one of my sets freak out, or go all prima donna, or refuse to do a scene, or not show without warning. So, maybe that means I have an attitude where I don't worry enough about people behaving in an out of the ordinary manner...

In a love scene, yes, it is pretty much just about the actress...if you're concerned with getting a good performance. What "bad thing" is going to happen with an actor standing in an apartment, waiting to mount the actress you have no respect for? People laugh at things, whether they are...

Why not cast someone to work in this scene with your actress? Your continued assertion that it be you is probably going to come off unprofessional to ANY actress involved. As an actor who has had to work love scenes in the past, you have to ease an actress into the frame of mind to be...

As I understand it, movie titles are not protected by copyright - you can call your film "Casablanca" or "Citizen Kane" and it's likely the only repercussions you'll have are from people who don't like you naming your film after a classic. The story of Thor is based on a Nordic legend and...

A few of the short films I have made have been quite a bit longer than 10 minutes, and did fine on the festival circuit. In fact, three of them were 25 minutes or more and have played at over 50 festivals worldwide and won almost two dozen awards between them. Make a good film, tell an...

There are actors' sites, and there is Craigslist, where you can look for and find actors. You can find actors willing to work for no pay, just for the experience and the footage for their reel (please be sure you get them their footage, if it is something you offer as compensation), but I can...

Would it be too overly-dramatic if the rape victim were to have an immediate response, like going to the roof of the house and jumping, or attempting to kill herself, due to the trauma? That might illustrate to the attacker and the girl who planned it the kind of harm their actions caused...

POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOLLOW! Saw this before it's release (my girlfriend is a writer for one of the major movie review sites, so I'm seeing everything in advance these days) and thought it was all right. True to the origin story, pretty much, although they did away with the "Odin making him human...

You, Good Sir, are an excellent judge of character and one of the most perceptive filmmakers I have never met...:D Mike, my first short film had about 30 actors, with about a dozen who were extras. I had about a dozen locations. I had two extras flake on me - everyone was paid $25 to be an...

On a side note, just because actors tell you they think the script is great when you offer them the part, doesn't actually mean they think the script is great. It's just...what are you going to say? "I don't like the script, but if you can possibly get a monkey with steady hands to point the...

yep. gelder

Cool - glad it worked out! gelder