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For your budget range and what you're looking for, I highly recommend the Canon 7D. It's cheap, compact, has a large sensor, shoots 1080/24p, has interchangeable lenses, and shoots in full manual and automatic modes. I shoot with one and can't praise it enough. My short film shot on the 7D...

This hasn't been mentioned yet, so I'll throw it out there. You should consider the Canon 7D. The body is $1800. For your budget, you get the camera, a decent lens, and some nice accessories. It's a great setup for narrative filmmaking. It shoots 1080/24p, has a 35mm size sensor (for the...

This amount can range from 50 cents to $400 million, depending.

You were talking about hiring people and equipment. There is zero difference between the number of people needed. And the difference in equipment cost would depend wildly on what equipment you're using in the first place. The 7D is thousands of dollars cheaper than the HVX and about $1K...

FWIW, having shot back-to-back shorts, one with the audio going directly into the HVX, and the other with the same audio gear going to a Zoom H4N, there's simply no comparison. The H4N was hands-down better, better quality and a better experience.

That's just the nature of getting from the script to the screen. Things change in pre-production, on the day, and in post. It would be extremely unusual to read a script of a movie that follows the movie exactly.

It would be equally disgraceful, would it not, if another writer was hired to fix the script, contributed a huge chunk of material that made the script better and that writer was NOT credited. Directorik could probably get more specific, but there are rules for how much a writer contributes in...

You write it exactly like you would any other script, except without any dialogue. ;)

If your budget allows, I would go with the HVX out of the cameras you listed.

How? The Zoom H4N can fit in your pocket, which means the boom op can monitor levels while booming. Otherwise, the camera op can do it. Either way, it's the exact same number of people. I mean, do what you're comfortable with, but what you're saying simply isn't true. I've done it both ways...

I agree about shifting some of your resources to storage. But I'd go external, not internal. Get a RAID enclosure with an eSATA interface and you'll have plenty of bandwidth to edit HDV.

The T1i only does 20fps and 30fps, not 24. That's deal breaker for me, even if the camera only cost $50. Mow a few extra lawns and spring for the 7D. You'll be a LOT happier with your purchase.

The added cost is $300 for the Zoom H4N, which is amortized over the life of the product. In terms of film equipment expenses, that's nothing. Otherwise, you still have the cost of the mic, boom, and boom op. None of that changes.

I always found tethering to the camera kind of a pain. The biggest (and only) advantage is not having to sync in post. But recording to the Zoom H4N is way better audio quality than I ever got recording to my DVX so it's well worth that extra step.

I have a Bogen tripod that's been thru 3 cameras already. Also, a Cobra Crane and skateboard dolly wheels attached to a 2x4' particle board. For this project, we mostly used our 1K Fresnel and a white bounce card.n We also have two 650 fresnels. AT835b shotgun mic to a Zoom H4N. A...

Here's a short film I did last month, testing the camera out in a narrative production environment with lights, crew, etc. http://vimeo.com/8145618

Here's my general approach. Remember that a script is temporal; that is, it represents TIME, not just images. A scene shouldn't take longer to read than it would take for the action to occur on screen. That's why it's called an "action" paragraph and not a "description" paragraph, btw. So in...

I've done fine with just a regular shoulder mount.

No. Don't worry about props, objects, sounds, or whatever. Just the introduction of a character in the story. Contrary to popular belief, there is actually a LOT of latitude in screenplay formatting of spec scripts. Celtx is a great program and will get you as close as you need to be. Just...

What DO you have and what's your budget? Basically, what have you got to work with?