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The chemistry of time is one of the most fascinating things about film - in fact I think it's what sets it apart from the other art forms. It's difficult to go nonlinear in theatre, music, ballet, painting, etc. Theatre can be somewhat nonlinear but not to the extreme that film can be. In the...

I think it seems best to use nonlinear storytelling if it adds to the momentum of the edit. If you have dead spots you can unfold parts of the future. I liked how Tarantino did that in KB2.. The question is, was Pulp Fiction created in the edit room, or was the plan all along in the script...

Do you remember events in sequences, or in disjointed flashes? Is all you remember of your childhood a selection of key memories, such as your first day at school or the time a sibling ditched you during a game of hide and seek? It’s hard to think like most computers do, as a sequence of...

That's an entirely understandable position, although in the end an audience is what matters. Some distributors are converted DVD authoring shops or other assorted minor players that don't do a much better job than what a filmmaker could do for his or herself. Check out...

I'm considering a strategy of collecting names of people that are interested in buying a copy "when available", and then taking that list to a potential distributor. So if potential leads are substantial, that could potentially help, and I technically haven't sold any DVD copies yet. I'm...

Clive, I foresee a great demand for your services in New York.. although some of these characters have no address or even a driver's license! Such as Tod Scott Brody: http://todscottbrody-clients.blogspot.com

Strangely enough, The film I'm editing now seems to fit in this structure.. although I didn't know it when I wrote it last year. Three act structure gets detected too quickly by audiences these days, they often want the acts to be more compressed with more plot points and quicker scenes. I...

Sorry for delayed reply to this thread, I just found it by searching for "sunfrog" from forum search. Please email support questions to info at sunfrog-tech.com. In answer to the question, color coded RTF import is in development - I've been considering writing an MS word macro project to...

I liked it. Great concept. I'd pull back the music a bit but that's just personal preference.

I think it'd be interesting to have a movie about a scam sent by email that people fall for in various countries. Each episode shot in a different country about different kinds of people falling for the scam. The thread to hold it together is that it's the same scam. Whoever takes charge of...

I was 1st AD on POLICE BEAT, which played at Sundance in 2005. It's finally getting theatrical play! If you are in NYC check it out at film anthology archive starting Apr 28th through May 1. More info at www.policebeatmovie.com . http://www.policebeatmovie.com/pb_trailer.mov

Ken Kesey vowed never to see the film because the adaptation of his novel didn't use the narration of Chief - an element that made his book so unique. Nurse Rachett is a classic!

Congrats!

Spec scripts of any kind always seem to be a lottery to me. For the unknown writer, sounds like getting some shorts made or a comic strip/graphic novel underway would be the thing to do. I think a serious beginning writer would try to make shorts him/herself or partner with a budding director...

Sorry but.. nope! Direct to DVD animation features for kids are hot right now. Check out the kids section next time you visit Blockbuster or even your local drug store. I have a friend-of-a-friend that just made a 3 picture deal for animation scripts to be produced in Canada - his only...

How long is your short? You have a 500 Gig drive. If it's under 10 minutes and your shoot ratio is under 10, you should be able to cut it in HD directly with room to spare on the drive. Otherwise, yes, downconvert to 23.98 DV and cut an offline version and conform later. I'd recommend...

Scott, maybe you know the answer to this question. I tried posting it in another thread. I have a "dumb" question about clapper sync. I shot S16mm with DAT and slated. My lab synced the DATs in telecine and gave me miniDV dailies. In the dailies, The clap sound often overlaps two frames...

GREAT post. I am currently helping a friend with a theatrical plan for his HD exhibited feature, he has rave reviews in the NY papers but up against the currently broken economic model of indie exhibition.

Scott: The infamous CMX EDL is a format of last resort, in my opinion - it's the thing that will work no matter what, but you will lose information about effects, etc. Clive: Ouch, double ouch! It sounds like you hired the deck for the whole production. Sonny: All of this stuff is a non...

Over the past year we've exhaustively discussed digital distrubution in the theatre. The crux of the issue is that decent HD projection was expensive and the specialty theatres didn't want to pay for it. If you finished your picture on 1080p HD or even 2k, you were stuck with a crappy DV...