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Yes, you raise a very good point. Without feedback, it's very hard to know if your stuff is relatable to an audience and therefore something worth paying for. Of all the steps for learning craft, that one should be pretty easy to do for most people. I suppose that's a plug for a site like...

The genre is dramatic comedy. It is a slice-of-life story.

I keep waiting for the next golden age of cinema... and waiting and waiting. In the late 2000's the DSLRs made quality camera work available to anyone for next to nothing and YouTube took off allowing anyone to exhibit their work for nothing. Having made films in the 90s I thought "man this is...

If anyone is interested in watching a rough cut of an indie feature, please contact me. The film will be available for viewing on Vimeo this Sunday (7/12) from 6 pm to 2 am Eastern. We are asking viewers to fill out a survey and/or join a Zoom meeting to discuss the film at 9 pm Eastern on 7/12.

STAGING. Upon arrival at a new location, before anything, pick where you are staging your gear. If you're on a larger production you likely have an AD or production staff that will plan for staging, but if you are a one-man show or small operation, you might not have someone thinking about...

Jax makes a good point... I'd like to hear your plan for the hourly players. Under what circumstances do you envision a MUA needed for only one set up in a day? Are there no actors in the rest of your shots that day?

A few comments: Some of the most complex shows managing hundreds of actors, extras, vehicles, animals, etc. are scheduled using MMS (and before MMS, they were handwritten on cardboard strips), so I'm sure you can do it with that tool. It may be tedious and time consuming, but I can't imagine a...

It's probably not what you want to hear, but Movie Magic is going to be your best bet, both from the standpoint of getting your work done and sharing files with others on your production. If you expect to be producing projects beyond the current one, then it's worth the investment. That said...

I wasn't talking about changing the lens to match field of view. Same lens, same focus distance, same aperture, two different sized sensors will yield two different depths of field. Try it on your favorite DOF calculator. From PCAM: camera sensor size focal length focus distance aperture...

On point # 1... a 35mm lens is a 35mm lens no matter the sensor size of the camera it's being used on. Crop factor is a specific instance of field of view that assumes the 135mm still camera format is somehow the standard frame size. So, crop factor is a ratio of the field of view seen by one...

Thanks Aiden, the LLC would actually be formed in NY and subject to NY taxes, not the CA minimum tax. You raise a good point about ownership and that is where I think it gets a little tricky as I have partners for this particular film. Given the responses here and some of my own reading, it...

Thank you directorik, that helps clarify.

The reason I don't want to form in CA is that there will be a $800 per year minimum tax. NV I'm not sure about, but I believe you have to have a local address to serve as agent. I also think we will have to file a "doing business in NY" if we create an LLC elsewhere, adding more $ we don't...

Hello everyone, new forum member here. I am starting work on a microbudget feature. Most of the financing is committed. This is my 4th feature and in the past I would have formed an LLC specifically for the film being produced. However, our budget is very low and very tight (aren't they...