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So we're going to start recording the voice over dialogue next week, at an ADR room at my university's sound lab. There isn't much (maybe 3 minutes worth) but it is very important to the story. All the voice over dialogue will be done by my lead actress. I'm familiar with the directing...

I've been a 5D mk2 fanatic since I first used it. If it's in your budget, I'd definitely get it. As someone else said, keep lenses in mind cause those can add up.

True Indie: You should be careful how you throw around the word "exploitation" and compare U.S. internships to third world exploitation. This UNICEF article discusses exploitation in the same realms of sexual abuse, human trafficking and violent attacks...

Your grades can get you into a lot of academic universities that also have film programs and are much cheaper than the one I'm about to talk to. I go to San Francisco's Academy of Art, an art school that's both overpriced ($8,000/semester) and very large (16,000 students). The film program is...

Moving the actors around on location / on the set before shooting the scene.

The short I just finished writing is about 8 pages long and is very light on dialogue. Like 85% of the dialogue (of what little there is) is spoken by the main character. The other four actors have no more than two lines each. The actress playing the main character went through very thorough...

This might be a good bit out of the budget because it is a lot more expensive than the one you listed, but I'm a huge fan of the 5d mark 2. I've gotten similar footage from a 60d and a 5d mk 2 and the difference is really amazing. For what it costs and how user friendly it is, it's a great...

HAHAHAHAHAHA Made my day.

I see what you mean but "education" is very subjective. You could learn something just watching a film production take place. They might have had annoying errands to run all day but it's hard to believe that they didn't learn anything. The part that I was mostly referring to is the fact that...

Exactly. They entered into a very clear agreement, we do what you'll say for free, so we can say we have actual experience. After the film becomes a box-office hit, they file a suit for compensation. This is going back on a very clear agreement that they knowingly entered into. This is like...

If you look at a lot of the short films that get recognition in the festival/award circuit, they are very short. There aren't any set rules for a good short of course, but an intriguing set-up and an unexpected and interesting pay-off doesn't take that long. For a film festival, it's harder to...

If it's going to be comedic, it should be consistently funny. Not a story filled with gags, but it should have a certain light hearted comic feel to it, through out. Shaun of the dead, for example, achieves this perfectly.

Very well written and constructed. The dialogue sounds very natural. I'd like to suggest an alternate ending, however, if I may. After Steven leaves, Barry walks into his home and we dozens of pictures of a woman (the wife who broke his heart). They have big Xs over them and some are torn up...

I'm not sure about make-up but I think there's some advanced color correction you can do achieve something similar. I heard a lecture on it but don't know the details. Good luck.

I'm pretty much doing an exposition montage of a girl walking into expensive stores and leaving with shopping bags. It will end up being 30 seconds at the most but I want to show the store's names to make it clear that she's wealthy. So since it is free publicity and branding for the stores...

I'm trying to shoot a time-lapse of the Golden Grate bridge going from sunset to night to sunrise. I'm not sure about how I should go about setting this up. The shot will be static. Do I just just take three shots? One of the sun completely setting, one of the night, and one of the complete...

Based on the shorts I've made...NEVER forget why you're doing this. If I ever forgot how much I enjoyed making films and turned it into "obligatory work", I would lose my mind. Take it easy and enjoy yourself.

The one's who aren't hungry would have the option to leave but if it was before the shoot, they'd have to stay for the shoot. And yea, pizza sounds good.

Yea, I didn't even think of that. Nearby there's a by-the-slice pizza place, that would work best. $5 per person at most.

Yea but my concern is that the people who aren't hungry will end up sitting there for half an hour, when they took out time from a busy schedule to work, sitting idle for 30 minutes might feel wasteful to them.