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My wife and I are both senior citizens, so we are definitely "old school" if there ever was such a thing. There was (and is) something special about being able to TOUCH a record or a book....a dictionary, an encyclopedia, an address book. We still play vinyl records on a daily basis, and...

Thank you, but the film that you posted is the wrong version....it is not the original 1960 episode. The one that you posted is from 2003. They were shot differently...

Which part are you mocking...DVDs in general, or the TWILIGHT ZONE. We watch over 200 DVDs a year, all obtained free from our local library. Nearly every library in the U.S. has a library of DVDs available free to the public. As for the TWILIGHT ZONE, our library has that too. (click here)

If possible, try to watch a TWILIGHT ZONE episode from 1960 called "Eye of the Beholder". (imdb) . This extremely famous episode is based on POV techniques, with a twist ending. Your local library may have it on DVD.

The teaser and video blog are fun to watch.

Very nice. Interesting images and editing.

At this point the quality of your photos or the lens that you use is not important. You are using the photos as a blueprint of each location. For example, in the case of interiors, are there windows?...where are they?...how many?....color of the walls?...ceiling height?....how big is the...

Finish the short. If it turns out well, you can use it to help raise funds for a bigger project.

Believe whoever you want to. The people in the SAG office are are not GODS...they are just secretaries who work in an office for $11 an hour and say what they are told to say... Do whatever you want.

Food for thought...I've produced and directed many "no budget" (non-union) films with SAG actors....some shorts, some features. I have never signed a SAG agreement. The actors who were SAG were aware of this. They were not worried about it AT ALL. My films have played in film festivals and...

In my view, your first deal is better than the second one because the first one gives you a specified term of option, specified cash amount, and specified percentage. You second deal is not a deal...it offers nothing and she knows it. The super red flag is that she didn't want lawyers or a...

As both a cameraman AND director (at the same time), I would say that your biggest challenge would be to block scenes, coach the actors, move the camera, light the scene, and monitor audio all at the same time. This is too much for one person to handle. Either your camera work will suffer, or...

Here's a different way to go....why offer points at all? Why not simply pay a specified amount up front, OR offer nothing at all..."To build your reel, for the fun of it", whatever. That way there are no hollow promises and no further expectations. If you don't have any money to make a film...

In a world where EVERYBODY has a script, if he has been writing for awhile and has some experience in (not) selling scripts, he will know that you actually have the upper hand, because you are putting money on the table. (Assuming that you are writing a check for $500 up front). If you make...

Food for thought: I would say that at the end of the day, editing is the most painful for new filmmakers. Why? When you sit down to edit, you can see and hear everything that went wrong on the shoot....poorly recorded audio, poor camera white balance, out-of-focus shots, no cutaways...

I actually owned one back in the '70s when I was working for ABC News, but for the life of me I can't remember what it cost. I absolutely LOVED that camera (which replaced my Auricon), and I was sad when we switched to video cameras around 1976-77. I shot my last project with it, a...

Another factor is the LENS. Going hand held and using a wide angle lens looks really cool...especially when you get real close to the person you are talking to. A wide angle lens is also more forgiving to shakey camera moves.

When the business quotes that much money, this is when you stop trying to be "bigger" than you really are, (don't say "We're making a movie"). Instead, you try to become "smaller"...("We are making a student video with a tiny camera and a just a couple of people"). When you say "we're making a...

I might ad that all of my actors receive detailed "deal memos" with dates, times, and locations, but there is always someone who still wants to change our schedule to squeeze in another shoot. By the way, our "no budget" films have always paid actors $25-$100 a day, (usually $50), which does...

Shooting only once a month is very risky. Actors are constantly looking for other opportunities, and the first paying gig that conflicts with your three month schedule, they're gone. You can minimize this risk by making your shooting schedule as short as possible...like maybe shooting twice a...