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Well, adding to what I wrote previously, and to what Xylofonic wrote, think about what the director and crew would have to do to shoot the sequence you described, which shows continuous action in discontinuous locations: fire escape, alley, street, restaurant, and so on. Each of those is gonna...

Learning how to properly format a screenplay will help your writing because it is a good lesson in discipline. I especially like knowing that one page (properly formatted) equals approximately a minute of screen time. Who knows how long your movie will be if you don't take advantage of this...

A scene is any part of the story that is shot in one location, in continuous time. Every time there is a change in location (even if it's just from one room to another) or a break in time, that is a new scene. To take it a tad further, then a shot is an angle on the scene, and a take is a...

Zak, I could kiss you - this is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!

Assuming no one in the crew asks for a special kind of credit in their contract, what would be the "standard" order of positions to appear in the beginning of a film? At the end? Thanks...

Thank you! You are amazingly helpful. :)

I asked because I live in NYC and everything I've done up til now has been school projects or small independent documentary projects where it was just me and the camera running around town. But next year I plan to shoot something much more professional -- with a crew, yay! -- and although NYC...

When you start a prod. co., do you get General Liability for the company which covers all projects or do you get separate policies for each project? Is general Liability the same as Comprehensive Liability? I know there is also equipment insurance. Is that per project or per company? And...

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In your timeline, just make new audio tracks and insert your desired sound into the new tracks, and cut out the undesirable sound out of the existing tracks (very easy in Avid, which is what I use). Also, you can always find sounds like wind and trucks in sound effect libraries. Just download...

Okay, what's the difference between these two things and what kinds of agreements do they require? Thanks!

Well, yes, of course. I know that, but thank you. My question is what kind of agreement do I need to get the rights (are there different types of rights)? Any sample agreements anywhere? And anything to know when asking for changes? Thanks!

If you are interested in coming to NYC, check out CUNY, which is only $170/credit and offers all sorts of options. CUNY is a system of about 20 colleges in all five boroughs of New York City. There are even a few of their community colleges that offer film or video focused programs, but the...

Hi all, I'm in the very early stages of pre-production for a project I want to shoot in the spring (very low-budget short film of about 10 minutes). I want to use a script someone else wrote (which they sent to me and would like me to produce). I am a newbie, still a student, and this would be...

This might help Read this Wiki. At the bottom is a chart with most (not all) of the jobs on a film, which makes it easy to see who does what. If you click on the links in the article and that chart, you can read about each position and what they do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_crew