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For my second short, we're going to start shooting on location tomorrow for two hours. The DP, sound tech, three actors are all working for free. Should I buy them dinner after a 2 hour shoot or is that more expected when you're shooting for the whole day? * If anything, it would be a...

I learned how unique each actor is when we held auditions recently. Some actors, interpreted the sides spot on..didn't ask questions and gave a bad-ass performance. Others got up their and were confused until i explained the premise and character to them and the scene's place in the...

If I record audio separately, won't there be issues with sync afterwards...if I don't have an experienced sound pro to work on it? Or do you mean ADR?

I'm currently shooting with a 5D Mark 2, in case that matters. But my questions is, if I'm shooting a dialogue scene from 5 - 10 feet away from the actors, and the two actors are right next to each other, can I use a shotgun mic thats mounted on my camera? Or do I need to hold an extended boom...

I was a "lone wolf" on my first. My second, which starts shooting tomorrow, I have a pretty solid team. I think it helps a lot to have a few specialists. My DP has a solid reel and has no interest in being a director (which is rare among DPs). My sound guy is an up-and-comer who just loves...

While I do think that thesis films tend to be very pretentious and poorly made, the "final product" of film schools are film makers, not their thesis films.

I'm in the film school at San Francisco's Academy of Art right now and I can only speak about this school in particular. Film school will just give you the resources and expertise of experienced people to help you work on your projects. It's not as theory based as it used to be. You have to...

These replies have made an interesting read. I start on my second short this Friday and we're using a 5D Mark 2.

I think in a certain context it makes sense. I know people that use a curse word in every other sentence. I have a professor who says shit at least 30 times in a lecture and he's the PHD academic type. I think it kind of works in The Departed but in The Big Lebowski, which is one of my fav...

Well I mean yea if you scrub it down to something like that. You might as well say, there's one type of story: Something happens.

Lol, I'll ask the site admin if I can access their back-end and install Google analytics and track it for a month and get back to you. My point was that their is a smaller pool with that site, compared to other major sites. Even if they are off by 5,000%, after conversions from page-to-page...

I got a director friend who's looking for some ideas to produce but I'm too greedy to give him any of mine. If he makes it, he'll be submitting it to a bunch of Cali film festivals. You can email it to me at ZainRizzo@gmail.com if you'd like.

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Followings are built ON youtube not only outside of. There have been multiple web series and other artists who have started on youtube and built their fame from there. It is however very difficult to do without a good understanding of youtube marketing. And about Open Indie, the website gets...

Myanmar would make a sick place to shoot an epic.

Nothing comes to mind for overmatched but for rewatchable: Whatever Works Scoop The Big Lebowski Three Idiots

If you could shoot a story in any place in the world, as far as aesthetics go, where would you shoot and for what type of story? Mine would be, for an epic film, Agra Fort, India.

It's lazy writing. There are other ways to put your protagonist in a rough situation and not force him to kill and, as a result, make him harder to sympathize with. SPOILER::::: In The Next Three Days, for example, Russell Crowe needs money for his wife and is outside of a bank with a gun...

There are a few private schools in LA where a few of my friends go that guarantee internships, but they are both film focused schools. The New York Film Academy is on the Universal Studios lot and Columbia College is a few miles outside of Studio City.