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I am having a pro production company produce a sizzle reel for a sci-fi TV series I wrote. I am going to use the demo reel to pitch investors and/or crowdfunding to help raise financing for a pilot in the $250k range. Are there resources to learn what kind of return on investment can be expected...

Not so sure about the budget thing. I've seen some people do some pretty amazing stuff with cheap cameras, and then people with full RED rigs totally blow. I think there's something to that camera placement suggestion GuerrillaAngel made, though. The camera angles often feel "wrong" in the bad...

Been reviewing production companies to help with a demo reel and while I have no film experience, I do know what looks great and what looks flat and stilted. I'm curious why some film of basically the same scenes/settings has that great Big Screen "feel" to it and other film looks like a home...

Any favorite realistic blood recipes? Any good brands of theatrical blood?

What the heck. It's amateur hour all the way, but the only thing I've done so far. A teaser for a short I still hope to shoot one day I did a while back. The music is actually a couple of buddies of mine playing the piano and viola, kinda makes it watchable. They sat down in the kitchen and did...

I agree Gatorade and/or Mountain Dew look like very realistic anti-freeze. In my business we use solar heaters that use propylene glycol for a heating fluid. It is sold as "RV" or "marine" antifreeze and is safe for humans - and animals - to drink. It is used in food processing somehow...

One last dumb question. How does one synch the sound on the audio to your film footage? Are there some kinds of embedded markers your editing software detects?

Also, thanks for all the replies and the AWESOME list of sound equipment.

100% agree. I would definitely hire pros come game time. But like in my regular business, I like to at least know enough about the different areas to be dangerous. At least to know the key terminology.

What would be a top-of-the-line shotgun mic and audio recording device you can recommend? Or features I should look for?

I like it! Took a bite out of it just by shutting down computers and unplugging refrigerator.

Total newb here. Yes, I am plugging it straight into the camera with an adapter on the cable. Is there some other type of recording device I should be using?

RE: the booming, I was just practicing with it at 3 different locations, one of them was outside. Still got this background "buzz." Also, it's a VERY cheap microphone (<$100 USD) not sure how much that matters.

Gotcha. So, the sound needs to be controlled on set, not anything that can be done on the sound mixing side?

Got an external shotgun mike for my camera, and while the sound quality has increased exponentially, the background noise is much more obvious (to me, anyway). Is there a happy medium to be found between that beautiful, rich voice recording and limiting some of the background noise?

I have many decades of firearm experience, but I would still want a weapon master on set to double check me when we were using firearms. However, my focus is drama and cheesy guns are not going to fly. I have an Airsoft M1898 Mauser I used for a World War II clip, I just removed the orange cap...

Hello, filmmakers! I'm a late bloomer recently gotten ahead in business enough to start financing some film projects and a sci-fi TV series I wrote. I am interested in learning from and contributing to the film community in the US Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon), specifically Seattle...