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Budgets at this low a level are a pretty elastic thing. For example I've seen some people claim that their feature cost $300. Well that's possible but only if you already own thousands of dollars of camera equipment and editing gear. Do you judge that film differently than one that cost $10k...

This is me on my first day on set. I didn't go to filmschool or have any background shooting shorts. I just jumped straight into shooting my first feature. On the first day, in my infinite wisdom, I decided to a lesbian sequence. Anyway this is me desperately trying to pretend I know what...

I'd write it with dialogue. Your actors will just feel more comfortable if they have a page to recite rather than having to make stuff up on the spot while a crew stands around watching. And who knows, maybe you'll have some lip readers in the audience. That scene works pretty well I'd say...

What you have to remember is the real reason they're working for you in the first place. They're not getting paid enough to make it worth their time so they are doing it for showreel material. So while you think DPs should be willing to compromise they are only going to compromise so far. If...

SPOILERS: The guy with the broken doown car wasn't wanted. He was a cop. The couple who stop to help were the wanted ones. The bit at the end I think is the cop attaching a tracker to the car and his cop buddies are following. It's all very coherent I think. it probably doesn't matter but...

This is the tricky part isn't it? Sending off our first screener to an international film fest today ($80. Ouch!). Going to hit all the large local ones and then turn our attentions overseas. Very hard to know which festivals internationally are worth hitting up. I think the films good but...

And a poster:

Just completing and exporting my third feature today. It's a no budget period 1940s detective noir film. Pretty happy with how it turned out in the end and have just uploaded a trailer to vimeo: http://vimeo.com/59815254 I don't really have a lot of technical skills as an editor so cutting a...