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You need to be familiar with the basic principles and be able to on some level "speak their language".

As others noted you can choose how and where you frame to make available (or only slightly enhanced) light look good, even great, but that is probably as much effort as just lighting the scene would have been. Just "using available light" without spending a fair bit of time carefully thinking...

I thought the first season was really really good, then somewhere in season 2 they lost me (probably with the introduction of the shape shifters) and I never came back.

^ This. The lens has no filter rings because it's a cine lens and they expect you'll be using a matte box and square filters.

I have all used Mole Richardson stuff from ebay. Really very affordable. I have a 1K, a 750, a 650, and 2 200's with inexpensive stands I've got maybe $1000 in it. It's enough for small setups like the average interior.

Good advice. Take the amount of money you have invested in camera and lenses, you should have probably at least that much invested on the sound side. My sound guy, who doesn't even really have all pro grade gear, brings about $8K worth of gear to the set with him.

Light is MUCH more important than the camera. Excellent lighting can make a very mediocre camera look good and bad/no lighting can make an arriflex look like crap.

If you need really expansive exterior shots, or you need to shoot in a broom closet, then you might need something like a 16mm or 14mm. For most standard set ups a 24mm is about as wide as you'd ever go on a FF. If I didn't have one I'd add a fast (relatively) 28mm or 35mm to the fast 50mm...

"you can try to create a room tone by finding the "quiet" spaces found in all of the dialog takes and using them as your room tone by looping them" On the occasions my audio guy forgot to record room tone htis is generally what he did. I think you only need a couple seconds.

Also, just as an FYI on this topic, if you intend for the final product to be B&W you need to do a LOT of things while you are shooting the footage. The way you light, the colors you use in set dressing and costumes, many factors to think about during the whole process to get B&W to really pop...

I've just never needed much wider than a 28mm on a FF camera. The 35mm actually gets used a lot more than my 28mm does.

Commercially, 99.5% of shorts have no value whatsoever. Some stories just aren't a "feature". Trying to expand them to one would not work well. It's a way to make a film and get that experience without the time/money investment of a feature. It's a way to get your name and your work out there...

I mean more: "This town, it’s hardly recognizable. People use to perform daily routines and live normal lives with so much freedom and joy. Now, a community is torn apart beneath this wreckage and destruction. Lives are lost or shattered, all because of one unpredictable, devastating moment."...

Not necessarily being critical, just giving you something to think about. Have you ever heard anyone who talked like the dialogue sample you gave (either one)... It's even OK if you haven't, that can work, but be aware it will be something the audience notices. Good, bad or indifferent, they...

Also, just an FYI, and others have probably told you this, if you are writing for someone else to produce, to sell, the first 3 pages better be good because that's all 90% of the people who see it are going to read. The first 10 pages REALLY better be good because that's all 99% of the people...

Of course there will be. However, if the conversation goes on for pages it's not the fault of the action most likely it's the fault of the characters talking too damn much.

Some of what he says is absolutely legitimate. I'm a hobby filmmaker. I have no intentions of quitting my day job any time soon and I am fine with that. This was really all brought on by the digital revolution that lowered the price of admission to film making to virtually zero. 20 years ago...

You're right on the $500K no man's land. It's actually better to spend either way less or go ahead and go for 2 to 3 million. I'm probably just going to get out of the production side permanently and stick to screenwriting. Where I am at right now, and with the experiences I have had, $20K...

It's why I have been in semi-retirement for the past 18 months. There aren't any films I have any interest in making that can be made for the budget I have available right now ($5000 to $10,000). I either have to find that film (or the idea that interests me so I can write that film) or I have...

Not sure exactly what you're asking, but to me, dialogue is usually the last place I use for communication with the audience. Any time I have to have a character actually say something in order to get that info to the audience it means I haven't been able to think of another way to communicate...