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I enjoyed The Lord of the Rings bts. Still geared towards average movie goers but much more interesting than most I've seen.

If you need cheap lenses, look on ebay for old manual lenses, and then buy appropriate adapters. They might not be top-notch quality, but for playing around used lenses work perfectly. Remember that when adapting lenses, you usually lose autofocus. A camcorder would definitely be easier to use...

When watching films, rewatch value only affects one thing: whether I rewatch it. I loved The Grandmaster, but I probably won't rewatch it. I can watch Once Upon a Time in the West again and again and enjoy it every time, but I don't think that really affects how much I enjoyed the film. I find...

It depends a lot on how you're comfortable working or what gets ideas flowing. For me, sitting around a table (or on a park bench, library, etc) bouncing ideas around is a lot of fun and gets ideas flowing much better than working solo. However it usually works best if you've both got some ideas...

This is my latest short film. A few months ago, I posted a mini version of this film, and this is the complete version. Shot over 4 days for about $10. Critiques or questions are welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGceEaejD0Y My initial idea was to present an unconventional or...

I liked Interstellar, but I agree with ShockingMind that The overall story was wonderful, but some bits of dialogue and the characters brought it down. Still a great movie, and it's always nice to see big budget blockbusters that spend CG money on something other than massive battles. Honestly...

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Blender is free and it's my favorite editor. There are a bazillion tutorials and a wonderful community to help you get started. I use it for Windows, but it's available for Mac as well. Creating gunshots from scratch is hard, but Detonation Films has some decent free images that you can easily...

That's interesting because I have very few stories associated with watching movies. I think my list are often the films that I've seen the most number of times. And generally seeing a movie in theater makes me hate it a lot for some reason.

For formatting, Google "screenplay formatting" and look for guidelines on margins. Celtx and Trelby are two free pieces of software that automatically format screenplays so you don't have to manually mess with margins. Celtx also has some storyboarding functions. Another way to storyboard is to...

I enjoyed Dr. Strangelove. I found parts of it absolutely hilarious, especially Peter Sellers' phone call to Russia, but the main appeal for me was the semi-plausible-yet-totally-insane situation of accidentally setting off the destruction of the world. The character Dr. Strangelove was exactly...

Set up lego/action figures and take photos

Hard to pick just ten, but here are some that come to mind 1. Lord of the Rings (If I have to pick one, the Fellowship) 2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 3. Children of Men 4. The Prestige 5. The Godfather, Part 2 6. It's a Wonderful Life 7. Hugo (the 3D version) 8. Once Upon a Time in the West...

I like the narratives, but in both cases it is difficult to tell people apart because of the flat color and flashing people in and out. In the first one, I am not sure who wakes up at the end, and in the second, same thing where I'm not really sure who gets in the car. Basically, it's hard to...

Nice twist at the end. It's not my style of video or music, and to be honest I didn't enjoy it, but I think you did a good job fulfilling your vision. The transition from the calm, melancholy opening image to the rest of the video was jarring (as I think it was intended to be). There was a nice...

I like a lot of the shots by themselves, but both your videos feel very repetitive to me, especially the first half of Ep2 when it was just two shots alternating. Some of your editing tricks are cool, but when you use the same technique so many times (flitting between the person's position) it...

Legend has it that Christopher Nolan figured out how to do the handshake with both hands and feet simultaneously, and that's why he got to make Memento.

In all seriousness, I love film analysis, and I could care less what people are paid for even if I didn't. It is easy to go for low blows on jobs like that, though.

Well, you can always use mise-en-scene when you need to throw in fancy words to convince people that film analysis is a legitimate occupation.

Oh, I see. I was a bit vague, because obviously screenwriting is effort before filming, too, and that's not mise-en-scene. I meant stuff that goes into the set. But really, I'm not concerned with the exact definition, I'd be making the same arguments if you were talking about any word (which is...