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I think this about a fair few dramas or some thrillers, more specifically I often feel I could create a film along the lines of Danny Boyle or Shane meadows. Basically a film were the script and acting is more important than the vfx! Although if it were that easy everyone would be getting paid...

I think if the prices were the other way around, e.g the jvc costing £2500 then it would be a really good way for someone with a smaller budget to shoot 4k footage. However personally I would rather save the money buying a bmc or dslr and spend the savings on good glass

That looks amazing, as young said would love to know what camera/lenses have been used. also what has been used for the colour grading? as the grading is really good. also the scenes look really well lit!

keep it as fun as possible, you want the kids to go away super excited. which will go some way to easing the worries of the parents. The casting part of film making i always find, is a super hard process I just try to let the talent audition, and then talk to them as much as possible and when...

Yes audio post you are correct, however with windows because of the design of the operating system, you either have to buy good equipment or start spending time changing settings and buffer sizes and Bit depth, however you can load up your mac and open garage band, and already have near real...

Hey guys, thankyou for the positive responses! The doc was shot with zero budget, using friends of ours as the talent, obviously there are things I would change if I'd had a budget, however we were all really pleased with how the final product came out and I'm glad a few of you like it too!

oh in that case then yeah, i think technology makes everything cheaper eventually. I guess if you think about it nowadays you can go and shoot a broadcast quality documentary, on your own with a dslr a mic and a laptop, a few years ago you would have carried a much bigger much more expensive...

Should be up and working now! sorry to mods for spamming my own post!

or should i say a script is just a story until its been shot.

totally, write about what you know, dont start writing a film, or a short, about some sort of cabin in wisconsin set in the middle of winter if you live in manchester or something. why complicate a film by writing about something you have seen on tv/film which you then can't make without a huge...

maybe you are finding people from the wrong places? I have worked with some fantastic actors, who are according to their union statuses "professional actors" yet they were willing to work for free, took direction perfectly and performed amazingly!

yay didn't get flamed, thank you for the vote of confidence escher! and jax, your right I use avid fairly regularly, yet every time I import lots of footage or high res footage, i'm still always surprised by how real time it is, and avid itself seems to be a lot less computer intense than other...

to cut a long story short, i think the advancement in technology makes things easier to create, but makes creativity harder, in the sense that if your using old crappy equipment you have to try and be creative in how you get a good result. however if you just get your hands on an alexa or...

hey LDS, i am also a fellow film maker, but from Leeds, so not exactly close by. But still good to see more people from the uk on this forum!

If sound is the main reason for buying a mac/pc i would alsways choose a mac, as mac OS and also i guess linux has a zero latency kernel, which means if you are recording audio straight to pc (voice overs, to pro tools whatever) you dont get any lag between the sound happening and it recording...

Sorry just checked the link, video not converted yet. hopefully it will be done before long!

Hi guys, just thought I would finally post a bit of my work up for people to critique/have a look at. This is a short documentary I made last year, We tried to make it so that people that weren't necessarily interested in skateboarding could still enjoy it, hopefully we managed that! it was...

Nice one knightly, all 25 are good tips to keep in the back of your head!

I agree with phil

Sounds like an interesting idea, however what you have written is way too much for a premise, ideally you want a premise to be as short as possible, you should really be able to explain the general idea of a film in one sentence, For your idea I would write something along the lines of; 2...