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Hi all, I recently started a new podcast with 2 friends. Not trying to make money, just doing it for fun. I was hoping to get some feedback on how we can make it better. Sorry if this is not the right place to post this, but it didn't seem to me that it belongs in the promotion forum...

Been working on a script for a long time now. I put in a lot of hours, heart, and soul to try and make this the best and funniest movie I could possibly make, only to see a commercial today for a movie that has the exact same premise as mine. Even the title is similar, except mine is better. I...

Aw, you're no fun. I was hoping for a nice little Jessica Alba roast thread. Here's another quote of hers: "I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out."

LOL as if she hasn't stabbed screenwriters in the heart enough, later in the article she says: “The time I’m not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It’s all about the directors.”

http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/88-jessica-alba-offends-screenwriters-with-her-comments-general-attractiveness Here's the gist if you don't want to click the link: "Jessica Alba says, 'Good actors, never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they...

If you search "film look" on youtube there are quite a few good instructionals on how to do it.

If that's the title they chose then can you imagine the ones they threw out? The Dark Knight goes POW! BIF! CRACK! The Dark Knight: The One Without the Joker Batman Ends Batman: Cultural Learnings in America Make for Great Benefit City of Gotham Batusi: The Forbidden Dance

I use Final Draft, but I was at a friend's house the other day waiting for him to finish up editing a wedding and I decided to jump on his laptop and write a short that I'd been kicking around in my head. He didn't have final draft so it was nice to be able to download and install celtx for...

I feel that the handheld by itself was not a bad thing, but there were just a couple shots where it got VERY shaky. One in particular when they were sitting there having tea and it was just a shot of the old man, not moving or doing anything frantic, yet the camera was absolutely going bonkers...

Sunchaser, I can't see your film. Is there another site where it's posted?

I manage a call center. One would think that this is unrelated to filmmaking but the truth is that a huge part of directing is being a good leader and babysitter, and my job has given me plenty of experience at both. Filmmaking draws a lot of artistic people who lack leadership skills and hate...

Well the most important thing is that you have fun making it, which it appears that you did, so that's awesome. The second most important thing would be for your audience to have fun watching it, and I think there were a few things that kept that from happening. I would encourage you to just...

I showed this to my friend who's an editor and he noticed that there's a black frame in one of the cuts. Most people wouldn't notice. Also, I've been thinking about your title.

That was awesome. So let me get this straight, you never even had an inkling of the idea until the writing day? So you took one day to write it, then 24 hours to film and edit? If so, that's amazing, and if not, it's still amazing. Very nice work.

Are you looking for constructive criticism or did you just want to share?

Nice job. I actually want to see this movie, which is the main goal of a trailer--to make people want to see it. So you're a success there. I do wonder why at some points the shots look like film and other times they look like video? Did you shoot at different frame rates? For instance...

I second what Oculus said about the camera. I'm not a fan of the shaky camera, but when the action is crazy and frantic then it's acceptable. However, during the normal dialogue scenes, or when he's just sitting on the couch, I think those should be tripod or if you have to do hand-held then...

Thanks for the quick reply. I went to alcoveaudio.com and didn't see a blog there. Is there another site where I can find it? edit: oh duh, I just saw that you said the blog was on THIS website. Sorry, I'll go search for it now.

Very noobish question: I have access to 2 canon xl2 cameras, a lav mic, and a shotgun mic that plug into the camera. So from reading these boards it sounds like most of you record sound on a device that is completely separate from the camera? And then you sync the sound up in post? Is that...

I'm so glad I came across this thread! I've been working on the same script since I was 18, and I'm 31 now and I'm still not finished with a first draft! I need to stop being such a perfectionist and just get it done, and your thread is a great inspiration to someone like me who is equally, if...