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I agree - the chances of anything happening now are so slim as to be non-existant. It's not even your age that's the problem, it is the resourses at hand. You have to be realistic about the prospects of whatever you are making. With limited equipment and no name talent, it'll be vitrually...

My ideal budget would pay everyone, crew and actors, and secure one good location for several weeks. I'd want to pay myself for a full year at a moderate salary so I can direct, cut, sell/promote while also paying bills and eating on occasion. So I'd say $100K. I just did the film-edit-promote...

It took me a second to figure out what the How Much, Where and When was telling me, I think having it screened over the stills makes it hard to read.

We tried to ADR in my apartment and the guy upstairs was blaring "It's Raining Men" - we eventually found a studio space that we rented and it was well worth it. I agree with the basics, actors listening to their dialogue and repeating it over and over. Good one's get in a rythym and it goes...

I'd pay technical people first and foremost. Maybe an experienced 1st ad, someone who knows how to run a set, or at least a good camera person. Maybe a sound guy if you don't have one. Actors will do just about anything for a reel and you can sometimes get very good actors for very little or...

I was inspired by the "Watchable" actors thread - here's my list of people who just pluck my nerve. Al Pacino - what happened to the BRILLIANT understated actor in Godfather I & II? Nic Cage - hey, look, I'm acting!!! Julia Roberts John Travolta - Pulp Fiction was a gift from the gods Meg Ryan...

I'm including my favs, dead or alive. Humphry Bogart Johnny Depp Kevin Spacey Denzel Washington Cary Grant Grace Kelly Halle Barry Marlon Brando Audrey Hepburn Christopher Guest (I wait breathlessly for the next improv film from his crew)

I feel like such an Adobe shill but...once you "get it", Encore is pretty straighforward and lets you do just about anything you want by way of authoring. You can customize every step, I think that's what I like best. If you want sophisitcated naviagation with multiple layers of menu's, it'll do...

They have a film with Eminem and the "still" is taken from his website, it has the url on the photo! And some Chinese company is pitching a film called "A Nun's Story" using a photo of what I'm pretty sure is Audrey Hepburn in a habit. I'd love to see her in a new movie but I think she'd be...

Thanks, on my "indie budget" lifestyle, I'll head out to Barnes and Nobel for a coffee and some research.

I found that video editing software was so radically different from anything else I knew that it took A LOT of work to learn it. Go throught the sample tutorials and try googling for some basic tips. It really helped, you can't guess your way through it, you have to really dedicate time cutting...

I've heard quite a bit about color correction but haven't explored it at all. I use levels to touch up scenes but not color correction. I'd love an overview, or a link to good info. Thanks.

It's almost a religious war between the Mac and PC advocates. Once upon a time I think Mac kicked ass but Win XP is pretty stable and for the most part it's a tad cheaper. I've dealt with both and I think on the whole Mac with Final Cut Pro has a VERY SLIGHT edge but not enough to justify the...

I'm new to the Indie talk world after just completing my first short (51 min); I found some distribution info on this site that is a huge help. I really like the sense of community here, indie filmmaking is damned hard and it helps to have some resources. I firmly believe in a fair balance of...

Depends on how much control you have over the environment. I'd want to have silence on the set, boom mics for each actor. I've tried to boom two actors at once and had spotty results, never again. Lavs pick up way to much clothing movement and such, hard to hide, if actors are moving it...

I'm not specifically a business man, but I sat next to one in school. And I studied him. CustomFlix is a dead end for any kind of large-scale distribution; you'd have to advertise to stand out and the price point for profit is fairly high. Being on there sounds cool but honestly, how will...

If confession is good for the soul, I'm going to clear up some dark spots on mine. I watched "Showgirls" JUST to see Jesse nekkid. Yeah, I'm not the only one but I'm still embarrased. And it's just too bad to even be good. Sort of like "Striptease" with Demi Moore, can nakedness be any less sexy?

Great topic, these are my alone in dark indulgences: 1. Anything with Jackie Chan, the outakes alone are worth it. 2. The Charlie Chan series 3. Anything from the Hammer Studios 4. Shaft 5. "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", with John Wayne 6. Jesus Christ Superstar, and I sing my ASS off to...

We just did the same thing with a digital short, www.forgottenstars.com but we made a fake doc going from turn of the century through the 60's with modern day inverviews. We used Cinelook in AfterEffects and the software was FANTASTIC! We had a lot of compliments because people knew it was...

I'll side-step the whole religious thing by making a blanket statement about ANY movie who's main agenda is to make a moral statement: If the story is completely contrived around proving a point or persuading an audience, it becomes ponderous and just plain bad storytelling. That's true of...