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    A Sound Guy Sounds Off

    So how is a sound designer involved in pre production. Lets say a director said to you "we're going into pre production now and i want you involved but i dont know what you would do in pre" what do you say?
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    cinematography "WASHED OUT" ?

    Watch this College Humor vid (its supposed to be funny with bad accents) throughout te video you can barely see he background. Why is this? http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1910048
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    SATIRE

    Please tell me some satires. Thank you.
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    The Making of A Movie

    Is there a documentary or something that "chronicles" the entire making of a movie but not just like showing the making but also talks about how the stuff happens and who does what. Hmm?
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    Mixed Genres in One Script

    Can you give me an example of a joke like that. And a film.
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    Just Finished a Short, Here's How it Went:

    Sounds good. Post a trailer. Or the whole thing, if you want.
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    Too much suicide?

    Hey, when you finish it, post a trailer here...
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    Mixed Genres in One Script

    God or bad idea? Has it been done before? and i dont mean action-comedy i mean something thats really serious but also humorous. But i dont know if the dark humor should be within the seriousness or just in defferent scenes from the seriousness? Can someone tell me some movies to watch like...
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    RED ONE... HD LOOK?

    Yeah... Does RED ONE have that annoying HD look? Also, why does HD have that annoying look? Is it because of the fps? Any other reasons why it's like that?
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    Black Comedy and Tongue-in-cheek

    I understand what they are but when i watch films that are black comedies or have tongue-in-cheek comedy i only sense it a bit. What films are really good examples of black comedy and tongue-in-cheek. And dont say Dr. Strangelove. I've seen it. And its a typical example. I mean... i kinda...
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    dialogue ENTIRELY Dialogue Driven

    Is it sane to write a film that is entirely dialogue driven and there are only about three different places in the entire film?
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    character Character Names

    Let's say for example the protagonist (John Character) is in his living room when the phone rings. He picks it up. JOHN Hi. CALLER Hi. Now we don't know the caller's name. CALLER It's your brother. We still don't know the caller's name but we know it's John's brother. Now do i write...
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    Depth/ Message

    I keep reading online and in books that when writing a screenplay you should put a message in it but not preach it to the audience. So when i'm writing i try to put the deeper meaning into what's going on but i end up either making the stuff so deep that i think only really good film critics...
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    First Short Film

    OR Casey is in therapy because of her "problem" and it ends up that the girl she met at the beach is the therapist and the whole beach thing is that Casey is just in a therapeutic hypnotic trance right now. But that wont work because the therapist would be older. Well you can try work...
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    top-list TOP TEN LISTS!

    Ok in this thread you can post your top ten lists. If you dont have a list thats exactly ten numbers thats fine. Post a top 7 list or even a top 15 list. Obviously this is for your top (number here) favorite MOVIES but if you want you can do top (number here) actors/actresses, or top scenes...
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    HELP ME! [please read]

    I feel that i'm going to have to do everything and hire everyone. I dont know why. I just feel that im going to have to do EVERYThING. hire EVERYONE. Someone has told me before that you just hire the department heads and then they hire someone else who hires someone else and bla bla. But if ive...
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    Who Should I Hire?

    Im gonna ask lotsa questions that might even be irrelevant with the title. Clarification: I know everything depends on my budget... but lets say im going to have a relatively small crew because i have a small budget. Who must i hire? Whats the minimum number of crew i can have and complete a...
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    So Called Parenthical

    So I thought you could use the parenthical to say HOW the actor says the line, or what the actor does during or right before he says the line. But then I read somewhere here that you should'nt really use parenthicals. Anyway... that was his idea but anyway. I realized on Final Draft you can use...
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    Financers and Distributors - Samenessness

    Incorrect spelling attracts viewers. I was wondering, why do films usually get financed and distributed by the same company? And why does the mone have to come from a film company? Can't you get the money fro any old place AND THEN you find a film distributor?
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    archived-videos The Comedy Garage (Segment for LA IAM)

    lol... looks good. Maybe you should say in the anouncement forum (subforum - Suggestions) about the fewer rooms. They mite even change it.
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