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I agree with Wideshot that you should think about programming as a day job, particularly if it's flexible. There is something to be said for the Cortez approach, but I personally like to eat without sweating it too much. :) Yes, you absolutely need your own car. In fact, most PA postings...

November, with Courtney Cox, was shot on the DVX-100 and won the cinematography award o fall things at Sundance.

This reminds me of the Extras: Finale. :) I think it's a false choice, though. No one sets out to make a bad movie. Even the marketable films that don't turn out so well were not trying to choosing dreadful-but-profitable over something else. They were trying to make a good AND profitable...

Because it's really good. :)

I totally agree. What Joe's asking for, it seems, is some sort of guarantee that every movie he spends his "hard earned cash" on is a movie he's going to like. Well welcome to the real world, dude. It just doesn't happen. I spend a LOT of money renting movies or going to the cinema and I...

I haven't, not since I've been making movies and have gained an appreciation and understanding of what it takes just to get a movie in the can, let alone on a store shelf. I'm not saying you have to like everything. Far from it. But I do think a modicum of respect for someone's achievement...

You've been consistently and blatantly TRASHING the hard work of other filmmakers, filmmakers who've thus far accomplished considerably more than you have, and now you're offended by a so-called cheap shot? Why, at this point, should anyone bother to help you (especially answering such an...

I don't think so either. But if he tries to sell it, he WILL likely get a C&D. Why bother with the hassle when you can just put it online for free for all to enjoy?

You cannot sell your movie with Jurassic Park in the title. It's trademarked as well as copyrighted. That's why Jurassic People is safe and yours isn't. Second, while you do have a right to sell and profit from parody, your film isn't parody. It's a fan film and you are clearly trying to...

First of all, considering you may very well be one of these titles that someone bags on so dismissively, you may want to cool it a bit. There are undoubtedly going to be detractors of your work, even if it's good. Second, when you're dealing with budgets this small and inexperienced...

I think that's right. But the problem is that everyone we're talking about thinks that THEY have that film, the one that's going to break out ala Blair Witch. And as we're saying, 99% of those people are deluded about their own work. I just sold a no-budget psychological thriller that will be...

Your mileage may vary. I can't say this was my experience with my first film (thank goodness) but it is with many - especially with bigger budgets. But really I mean to agree with his overall points, not so much the individual details.

Soundtrack Pro comes with a very decent library of sound effects and ambient tracks that I've used in my professional productions. Online, I usually go with Sounddogs.com. Reasonable prices and amazing selection. They also have royalty-free music as well.

I don't know who Jim Robinson is, but there wasn't any point in there that I really disagree with.

Has anyone noticed that the HD DVD and Blu-ray packaging are IDENTICAL except for the color? What a coincidence that two supposedly rabidly competing formats ended up with the exact same package design.

Premiere is pretty good. Some editors swear by Vegas. Avid is another popular one.

An Open Source advocate and you went with the most closed of the formats, which is owned by just one company, that also happens to own the players AND the movie studio that makes the content? HD DVD is the more open of the standards, and the HD DVD consortium is actually chaired by Toshiba...

No, in most legit deals, the filmmaker is not responsible for expenses incurred by the distributor in distribution of the film. Typically, the distributor pays an advance to the production company based on estimated revenue. Kind of like how book and record deals are done. If the film loses...

You contact SAG. How you get classified (and thus what you have to pay your actors) depends largely on the budget and circumstances of your production.

The producers of Batman got paid millions of dollars in salary plus back-end. The studio had all of the exposure and the risk, not the producers. And the studios didn't lose money either, whatever the balance sheet says (it's that ol' creative accounting again). That depends on the...