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Hard to know where to start with this... The real answer is it depends on what the acquisition format was ...and the post production workflow. So, a few years back the standard workflow was (acquisition format)... copy tapes to digibeta... offline edit... reformat to original acquisition...

Look, this is both very simple and very complex... At the simple end of the scale: you hired the composer based on her/his showreel... so beyond giving them a marked copy of the script showing where you think music should go... then the trick is to step back and see what they offer up. However...

Before you give up on the idea of shooting on film... have you bought and read the Elliot Grove book, because the first third of that book is full of suggestions for acquiring film stock for free... and also shooting strategies for keeping the shooting ratio down. As to acquiring a camera...

Hmm... what I don't understand is why you're not developing your pitch for TV, instead of self funded production. Docos are most often funded as TV programming... I should know I'm in the middle of a BBC pitch as we speak. I've worked a lot in the social enterprise sector as a film maker...

You can't... but I think shorts should only be made by wannabe director with the intention of getting festival attention... there isn't any other sound business reason for doing them My problem is shorts don't even appear on my radar anymore, so I never factor them into my replies! (My bad)

Don't ask your friends to be actors... either cast them in roles that are similar to who they are... or write roles that will seem natural to them. Rehearse them before you get on set... get them to learn the scene and perform it... them get them to improvise the same scene only acting and...

This forum is unique in the indie film making community because it has attracted and kept some fairly high calibre film makers... whilst at the same time seems to avoid the ego driven flame wars of almost all of the other indie film forums. My gut feeling about why that is, is that firstly that...

OK... would have helped to know that you were talking about a doco... and that when you said "meeting to pitch for funding" you meant social enterprise funding. (Correct use of terminology is the baseline for competence in this industry... otherwise you're just wasting people's time) Two...

Buy this book Lo-No Budget Producer by Elliot Grove ... pretty much all of your questions are answered... all apart from the ones about DI, which couldn't hope to be up to date But basically... er, no the telecine/DI process isn't loss-less... but it's how stuff gets made these days... you...

I'm with indie... neither... film looks like film, DV looks like DV Oh and you might want to check your scopes when you're grading, because it looks like you've got no black in your images...crunching your blacks is going to help a lot.

Entertainment law is complex and specialised and I wouldn't take any advice given on a forum about it, except this one: find a good entertainments lawyer to handle your legal work. However, there is something else that's worth saying and that's that you're not going to be able to get "meetings"...

I haven't got time to look at the images, too busy at the moment... but chances are that you're causing the artifacts in post production and exporting In post production SD degrades in quality the more times it's rendered... because each time you render it compresses the material into the...

That's possible I suppose... I could just be lucky... but don't you find it odd that I'm lucky ALL of the time? I mean that is quite freaky... that after twelve years of making films; writing for the BBC and winning a whole shelf load of awards I still have never, ever, under any circumstance...

Indies always ask the wrong camera question... and by that I mean "what is the best camera for X budget?" When a better question is: What camera do you recommend for X project? So, for instance... if someone plans to make a documentary about learning to skin dive in Croatia, then some cameras...

Can you be a bit more specific about how this site is going to work? ... because there are already great professional directories in existence... sorry to sound like a sceptic, but how is this site going to differ from well established listings sites like Mandy or directories like Hollywood...

Why do you want to know? I can think of at least four regular members here who have done all of the above... but I can't imagine for a second they're going to roll out their CV's, just because someone asked... I know I won't be.

When you say you want a screenwriter, do you mean you're looking for a professional screenwriter to write this as a "gun for hire" gig... where you retain the copyright, but the writer is paid a fee... or do you mean you're looking for a writer to construct your script for free, but s/he will...

that's the reason it pays to read the articles on the site...quite a few have video content

Yeap, I'm a Brit... which means I drink tea and am only able to perform acts of intimacy if there is a picture of the Queen in the room and the national anthem is being played. I wouldn't bother with American accents, I would have set it in the UK... revenge for "High Fidelity" which is...

That's based on the information in this video piece http://www.1000dollarfilm.com/sd-transformed-to-hdr/writing/2008/07/21/ and that process is still in the research phase, I wouldn't even expect to go beta for another year So the answer is no, at the moment this isn't an option. And SD...