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  1. cameronchapman

    royalty free music

    My personal favorite is Free Music Archive. Not everything there is free for commercial use, but you can search for CC-licensed work that is. There's some fantastic music from a lot of great indie bands included there.
  2. cameronchapman

    How many have you seen?

    I've watched five, not counting one I started watching that couldn't hold my interest (My Summer of Love). The five I watched all the way through were: Idiocracy The Iron Giant Moon Rescue Dawn The Rules of Attraction I particularly loved Rescue Dawn and Idiocracy.
  3. cameronchapman

    Should I sell my youtube channel so I can afford film equipment?

    I would counter with a higher price. Go back and tell him you want $8k. Nine times out of ten, when someone makes an initial offer out of the blue like that, they're low-balling you.
  4. cameronchapman

    Awesome editing contest.

    Awesome! I'm definitely going to give it a shot. Need more practice editing anyway. :yes:
  5. cameronchapman

    Should I CANCEL tomorrow's shoot!?

    For that one shot, I would try to make sure you keep the depth of field as deep as possible, so that there's a lot more leeway in keeping things in focus. That should make it easier for someone with little/no experience to pull focus (or possibly even allow it to be avoided completely). Sure...
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    Is it me or do a lot of indie films in festivals feel kind of empty?

    So glad someone else feels this way!!! I think a lot of indie films out there suffer from poor editing and struggling to fill what they think the appropriate time for a feature should be. A lot of the pacing issues in most of the slow/boring indie films I've seen could be fixed by just...
  7. cameronchapman

    May the 4th be with you

    You're not the only one who likes Ewoks! They're freakin' awesome. Pretty sure Jedi is my favorite (Empire is a close second, though I love them all).
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    movies What's the last film you watched? And rate it!

    Ten Tiny Love Stories - 7/10 (This one is a great example of what could be done with almost no budget, as it's basically just ten women sitting in a room telling stories). The Way - 9.5/10 Everything Must Go - 7/10 (I was pleasantly surprised by this one.) Friends (with Benefits) - 6/10...
  9. cameronchapman

    Lowest budget?

    My only real short had a $0 budget. I used things I already had. If you take into account all of the equipment I used (not including my computer), I'm still looking at a budget of less than $600 (hacked GH1, vintage Helios 44-2 lens, Blue Snowball mic, Pearstone tri-pod). I used entirely natural...
  10. cameronchapman

    Any Facebook members here? Let's connect.

    I've got the page for my feature up: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Two-In-Winter/218535918205860
  11. cameronchapman

    Who is planning on doing Script Frenzy?

    I didn't manage to finish either. Got distracted by pre-production work on a short and a feature...only ended up with 40-something pages. Maybe I'll try again in June.
  12. cameronchapman

    Banging out the first draft

    I'm a writer and editor by trade. So because I keep track of word count and remember my top days I'm not serious about writing or I'm writing crap? I'm gonna call bullshit on that one. Editing and revising is where I stress about word usage, continuity, grammar, etc. The first draft is about...
  13. cameronchapman

    Banging out the first draft

    I have to disagree wholeheartedly with this. I write novels and novellas and I have to say that some of my best writing comes on the rare days when I write 10k+ words (my highest day ever was about 15k words). Why? Because to write at that volume means you have to be into what you're writing...
  14. cameronchapman

    Banging out the first draft

    Anywhere from a few days to a few weeks for me. My first feature, which was around 100 pages, took 4 days. My most recent took about a month for the first draft, though to get to a "finished" draft (which will still probably change) took 15 months total (though I set it aside for months at a time).
  15. cameronchapman

    Favorite first film from great directors

    I'm a huge Joss Whedon fan, so I'm gonna say Serenity. :D It was the first film he directed, even though he'd directed Buffy, Angel, and Firefly before that.
  16. cameronchapman

    Nicholl Fellowship Deadline - May 1

    I submitted one back before the early deadline (March 15, I think). Couldn't afford it otherwise. Good luck!
  17. cameronchapman

    Hobbit Trailer

    I can't f'ing wait to see this! I thought it was being shot at 48fps, not 60fps? Either way, I think it's going to be hyper-realistic in 3D. This is one of those times when I'll be happy to spend $15 on a ticket to see it in 3D at the nearest good theater (which is nearly 2 hours away)...
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    movies What's the last film you watched? And rate it!

    Watched Melancholia on Netflix instant tonight. Fantastic film. Incredibly depressing, but fantastic. Be beginning is like a super-slow-motion acid trip—beautiful and haunting. I'll give it a 9.5/10.
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    movies What's the last film you watched? And rate it!

    Yeah, I was really impressed with that when I watched it recently. Just watched The Best and the Brightest with Neil Patrick Harris. I'm a huge fan of pretty much all of his work, so I'm gonna give this one a solid 8/10.
  20. cameronchapman

    New Terms from Amazon Studios

    I've never been a fan of Amazon Studios, mostly because they were asking for an 18-month option without paying writers a cent. Tying up someone's script for a year and a half without compensation of any kind (and honestly, with very little chance anything will come of the submission) is...
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