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After looking over this whole thread, indyfilm clearly has no idea how a festival system is supposed to work. When my short animated film "Pseudo Pluto" was accepted to the now closed Kalamazoo Animation Festival back in 2002, I was sent an email stating that my film was accepted, I was given...

It's extremely hard finding any books on those topics here either, trust me. And the only few that are out there won't get into the really creative modern stuff, like the simple DIY tricks that sell very simple but important gags like blood squibs, zombie flesh, or fake bugs and things of the...

But at least then Alejandro surely gave everyone a couple of months "Heads Up" before people came onto the project. Anyone involved with The Revanant likely understood from the get-go what they would be getting themselves into, at least roughly, and were willing to go along with what was...

One would think its pretty lousy that there weren't even porta-potties on set. Or regular bathrooms if it was on a studio lot.

You're kidding me, right ~sfoster? Now granted, I'm a guy who can and has worked hours on end without having to go to the bathroom or without having to eat, but that's only because I'm a very bizarre case. Also, if I really really DO need to go or DO need to eat in order to stave off stomach...

True. I did catch that he was getting it at cost. But it also felt like he was suggesting even just $15 was a bit much for a poster: having said "Prepare to pay." When in reality, a lot of commercial posters at that size cost $19 to buy for actual feature films. And then to get your own original...

I've wondered myself how to get prints that look like real posters. Because whenever I've printed stuff in poster sizes, the paper that most print-shops offer is pretty heavy stuff, rather than the thin bleed through paper that most poster use. So my posters always turn out with really heavy...

That's nothing. I have a print shop near me that charges $25-$30 for a 27x40 print.

Excellently put. Could not have said it better.

Coming from someone who has asked this question of themselves a lot lately, I don't think I'll feel "ready" to direct a feature until I have worked with a large crew more than once on multiple shorts. Shorts anywhere from 5-25 minutes, with around 20-30 people who all have well-defined positions...

Not too sure why you'd want to change the look of the laurels. I thought most laurels came from a stock design that almost everyone uses: just these big strands of leaves up both sides of the text. You see them show up on posters and DVD/Blu-ray cases, depending on how hard the distributors or...

I don't watch many shorts myself. More-so animated shorts if anything. I'd like to see more live-action shorts, though. New ones are made every day, just look at Vimeo's Top Shorts of the Week pages and all of their Staff Picks. I look at shorts as a calling card: a way to market your...

I completely agree with you here. And I honestly wasn't mixing up gaming and watching, I just didn't know that VR movies existed in the way you describe them, because what the hell is the point of that? Why have a medium where a linear story is played out like a regular movie, in 360, where you...

I disagree Games like The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, The Stanley Parable, Portal 2 and Half-Life 2 can tell an interesting story all without having absolutely no control over the camera. I find it odd that everyone assumes you can't still make use of design elements found in film within a VR...

I do think Virtual Reality can stake a sizable claim on the entertainment market in another decade or so, depending on how it's utilized. But movies and TV will still have their place, simply due to taste. Virtual Reality is based on fooling the brain into believing something is in three...

^ This! I've seen at least a dozen fan-films of varying nature and of varying franchises. My favorite fan-film is "Batman: Evolution," which I enjoyed a lot because of it's creative take on how the Batman of the 60s could have morphed into the Batman of the 1980s/2000s. My least favorite...

That's right. My bad. I thought I remembered from a documentary that he wanted to direct it, but they didn't let him because they weren't sure they were willing to let him take the job yet. But what they actually did was give him the chair, but not the creative control over the story or script...

No need to tell me this. Cause I get it. I might not sound like I get it. But I get it. It's not easy to do anything despite how it looks. And you're also right. The reason long form videos work is because of the jokes and laughter. You can't get most people to sit down to anything long form...

You do remember the original trilogy was like that, right? First it was George Lucas, then it was Irving Kirshner, and then it was Richard Marquand. The different director for Empire dramatically improved the level of urgency and seriousness in the story, the drama in the character...

I will argue this notion, to a degree, with a channel known as RedLetterMedia. The majority of their content consists of 45 to 1 hour and 45 minute videos where they sit and talk about crappy movies that they just watched previously, as well as brand new movies that they just saw in theaters...