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Another (and simpler) technique is to create a bullet hole with puddy, fill it with blood, then cover it with more puddy attached to a filament. Pull the filament really fast, the cap pops off and blood pours out. Instant bullet hole!

Yep, film the live action plate first with the girl chasing the butterfly as if it were there. Then add the butterfly in post, probably using CG.

I'm all for new business models, but this strikes me as kind of an odd idea. NO ONE does it this way. Netflix either buys copies of the movie outright or does revenue sharing. And they obviously don't limit themselves to 10 movies. If you compare yourself to a traditional distributor (like a...

IMO, it's like saying, "Instead of trying to design cars straight away, I'll get my foot in the door by becoming the CEO of Toyota and then move into designing that way." By the time you're getting paid to produce movies, your foot is not only in the door, it's on the sofa eating cheetos and...

I'm not exactly understanding the monthly payment. What would that cover and for how long would the payments be? What would you want for that?

I say that if you want to be a director, then learn directing. I'm not quite understanding the notion that producing is somehow easier to get into than directing. Almost everyone I know was a director or writer FIRST, and THEN a producer. Very few go the other way.

I would not credit Garageband. Just say "original score by" for yourself.

I think most would respond, "enough to make a living." But most director/writer/producer jobs are freelance, so we get fees instead of annual salaries. And the amount varies from gig to gig. In LA, you're looking at $75K as a minimum starting salary. On a modestly budgeted film, that would...

Of course they do, but it isn't because they wrote "we see." I'd LOVE to read a script in which the only problem was the writer not following these superficial rules. But as I stated previously, that is rarely the case, even at the higher levels in the business. When I'm discussing script...

You are certainly free to do whatever you want with your script. Like I said, it's easy to stick to the letter of the law. I just don't think it matters very much. But also like I said, I haven't really had to deal with readers. And while I have been produced, I'm speaking from my experience...

Formatting is not your foundation. It's your window dressing.

You got me. I'd say if someone is on the fence, then stick with the conventional wisdom. I mean these "rules" take, what, 45 seconds to learn. Just do it and move on to the important stuff - like characters and story.

Frankly, being phenomenal, grabbing the reader's attention, and holding it for ninety pages should ALWAYS be your goal. And if you do that, formatting won't matter. And if you don't, formatting won't save you. I typically find that good story, good use of language, and good formatting go...

I do. There is no point to doing this in a spec script. Doesn't matter. Generally, it doesn't matter. But you do want a nice smooth read, and I find that referernces to camera angles can mess up that flow. Doesn't matter. I'd say don't bother, but it really doesn't matter. I don't...

Susannah Grant was a well-established working writer who was nominated for an Oscar for one of her previous projects. Not that there aren't examples of first-time writer/directors, but she's not one of them. ;) Jijendi, the first thing you need to do, IMO, is let a trusted...

I'd go with them all if you can. You can never have too many outlets. I was going to self-distribute my movie until I got picked up by a distributor. A friend of mine is selling her collection of short films through filmbaby and has had a pretty good bit of luck with it.

Even on my extremely low budget feature, I made sure to set aside a pretty good budget for my composer, as that would be an important element that would raise the production value of the overall film. And it did. In fact, one of our tracks was recently featured on a music site as their single...

I signed up as a producer to the site and found a script that became my first feature film as a director. The original writer definitely got some money from me. And incidentally, if you are approved as a producer, you do not pay a membership fee.

If you are going to get an external monitor, I'd go with a 24" model from Dell or some other brand. They are all a LOT cheaper than the Apple monitor and just as good. I particularly recommend the Dell.

I use Final Draft and love it. I find it a little more responsive on the PC than on the Mac, but on the Mac it's prettier. :) The only bug I've encountered is exporting PDF files from the PC version, which end up 2MB in size for some reason. On the Mac, they are more like 200KB.