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I have been a member for a long time and am now returning after a long hiatus. I write scripts and stories that can be made into scripts. My subjects are scifi action/adventure. My stories are B-movie and exploitation-level stories.

You might want to look at other listings in your category to see if anyone else is receiving the same treatment, then look at listings that do not. It may be that someone who stands to profit by defaming others is behind the attacks. It might be possible that the worse your (false) notoriety...

Syd Field cites some screenwriters spending one year to do their research. A mockumentary is a form of satire. Satire must be based on a perception of a defect in its subject.

Flashbacks are often used to tell the backstory. My camera has a "Cine" function that gives different picture quality, like a blue tint to the picture, although blue might indicate dream more than remembered reality. The picture quality must be different, possibly with a sepia filter. Using...

There is no such thing as perfectly normal people. That is why they try to look alike because they are not normal and they want to hide their differences. Try to have the gang all use a certain word or wear the same ring. Hilary Clinton and the progressives all use the phrase, "civil society."...

Can you clarify a bit: do you mean 9 frames out of 24 frames a second? That would be a 1/3 of a second? What would be the difference between visual and whatever was not visual?

This is good point about 2001. The silences make audiences think or as the academics say, "read" the text of the film. I just saw a B-grade action film called Killing Streets a Menachem Golan production about kidnapping in Beirut in the '80's. After something would happen, there would be a...

Most of the plots in movies are thin, especialliy B-grade action movies. But B-grade action movies are among the biggest money makers. A movie like Flesh and Blood by Paul Verhoeven is solid plot. Every single scene has something happening in it and is important to the plot. But it is not always...

The A of E O sounds like a film women would go to. A romantic comedy. It's an elegant literary title that will attract the woody allen crowd. Not an action film. It projects a cool examination of the subject, like the filmmaker is viewing the topic like a scientific specimen. Homewrecker...

The ad is by a non-Spanish speaker writing in incorrect Spanish to recruit Hispanic women for porn.

I saw POSSESSION O'REILLY and CHERISH. Both good but low budget. The first used very inventive cinematography and use of darkness to scare your pants off. The second had an original plot. Indie films often drag a bit because the director does not know how to drive the plot from one scene to...

Courses in beginning police work, designed for people planning to work in the field, are taught at colleges by people who are or were police officers themselves. You can call a local college and find out where such a course would be taught and try to talk to an instructor. Such courses have...

I have done some stop motion experiments and it is charming even though it is obvious. It has a 1950's European feeling. The most important thing is that the camera must be absolutely stable and still, so that it does not move between shots. The strange thing about stop motion is a sense of...

it easy to find out whether you have 32 or 64 bit. Go into system information.

In your price range, you cannot get a very good video-editing machine. Usually the best laptops for video editing will be very close to the best for gaming. What I did is read the advice on the "videoguys" website. First choice would be to have it made up DIY. Second is to get an HP...

Better to rule in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

The more money there is involved in an industry the more competition there is to get into it. Speaking as a former composer/musician, my opinion is that it is next to impossible to personally contact a major music performer. The closest you can get is the star's agent. You often have to pay...

This is not a direct answer to the question, but the James Bond films featuring Connery reused the same music in movie after movie. It was only the theme song, played at the beginning and end, that was new music.

your explanation is confusing but I think you have a school assignment that is asking you 1) to write a magazine type review of your tv production and 2) make the tv production itself. There are sometimes shops especially in big cities that have old copies of magazines. There is also the...

Being sterile does not mean the egg cannot "pleasure" his wife, so there are some problems with the facts and logic that impede the movie by confusing the viewer. Most of the shots (up to the point of the man's entrance) are at the same angle and distance. This deprives us of connecting...