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Life is what you make it. Film schools are much the same. You can step up, work on as many projects as possible and try different areas. Or you can be an assistant editor or grip on a few projects and skate out the door with a weak education. We need to know what you want walk out the...

Starting looking for a good shooter and have them supply the gear.

Just add a middle initial to your name, Benjamin X. Johnson.

I am rarely impressed by indie animations, but this work is nothing short of amazing. Fantastic job. Scott

I love Super-8 and would love to shoot a feature on it. That said, I think you should pick a feature that matches the format in this case. If you're making a Hollywood style thriller, I think it's bad choice because you'll just get compared to films a zillion times your budget and you will...

Samiammi, I do agree there's lots of horror films being made in Ohio, but there are plenty of non-horror films being made in Ohio. I've seen some great dramas, comedies. and some sci-fi. Don't know if you attended the Cowtown screenings, but there was a good mix of genres. It does seem as if...

So you're walking out of school with $21,000 of debt. That's a huge chain on you so be careful about the amount of debt you saddle yourself with. That said, my advice go with things that are format agnostic, in that cameras are always being outdated, but lights, tripods, audio and edit gear...

A rental agreement is a great way to cover you butt. I don't know the value of your camera, but you need to think about a deposit or a way to take a credit card just in case your camera is damaged, lost or stolen while rented. You can require insurance, but that will cost money to the renter...

Thanks for this clip. I can talk until I'm blue in the face to newbies about this, but you're 29 second video hits the nail on the head. Scott

If you're shooting any kind of sound scenes in your feature, don't use a K-3, Bolex or similar cameras, because you'll have spend a lot of time and money re-doing your sound. For your price range I would consider a CP-16 modified with an Ultra-16 gate. You can find one on ebay for cheap...

I'm hate to pimp my own site but I have some tutorials on lighting and filmmaking in general. I apologize for the small size, I need to upload them to youtube at some point. Anyway, my site is: www.scottspears.net Enjoy, Scott

I thought the cheapest dolly ever was a stolen shopping cart. ; ) Scott

In general, you should never put camera direction in your spec scripts unless you know you are going to direct it yourself. Directors don't like to be told how to direct. This said you can write in ways that suggest angles without saying it. "We look down as Bill crumples to the ground."...

One thing you may want to do is contact somebody doing other shows for Discovery or other producers for reality shows and see if they would be willing to be a "show runner". That's basically a producer with connections who knows how to get a show to those who matters at the networks. They will...

The Scarlet is very interesting, but who knows when it will really come out. Also, you'd need many thousand of dollars of accessories to really round out the package. I'd look at something like the Sony A1U, a decent shotgun mic and a small light kit. Or a used DVX100A or B. If you go HD...

At age 14, I had to pick between drawing comic books or shooting movies. It came down to drawing was solitary and I liked getting together with my friends and throwing dummies off bridges and shooting it with a camera. Now just because you like watching movies doesn't mean you will like...

I really like the visual texture of your movie. By that I mean all the close-ups of objects and actions that create meaning. There are some very nicely composed shots. Also, there's also a good use of sound and music. I have to agree with the previous poster that the whole thing could be...

The Arri S is a great little camera. It is noisy and is not considered useable for sync sound because of the noise. I won an Emmy for a short I shot with an Arri S. I would contact either Arri or Visual Products to see what a power cable and re-celling the battery will cost. You could...

Hi, I checked out your pitch on Indie a go-go and saw that you are considering shooting 35mm and your budget is $50,000. I've shot features on 35mm, 16mm, Super-16, HD and DV and I can tell you that $50K isn't enough to shoot 35mm on a feature. That will pay for film stock only. No...

I've worked on three trailers that were made to attract investors and one paid off. I know of about seven others that didn't work. It's a tough call. I think if you have a novel idea or some strong visuals or visual elements, then it might work. If it's just standard imagery with a standard...