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Revolutions are ugly, dirty, immoral, and they kill people. If you think they're heroic, get a library card, and read a little. Maybe your "revolution" of cheap little digital cameras will make filmmaking available to many more persons, but should they? Maybe everybody doesn't have Talent, and...

WC, Love to see your "Respect." Is it up somewhere? I spent months watching the Western Channel, and renting and buying westerns. Saw some 300 of 'em, to research my "Surreal West." Wanted to know what it is a western has to say, and how you make it look that way. Silent, musical, comedy...

My top two most favorite: Shane The Searchers Great, but my least favorite, because everybody but Coop is so cowardly: High Noon Oddball favorite: Apache Drums I can't tell you my vote for very worst, because it was made by some friends of mine, and I have to work here. Personal favorite...

The "good scenes" quote that began the thread is similar to this definition of a good movie: "A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes." -- Howard Hawks Here's a great article about reshoots that improved Hawks's "The Big Sleep," by following that rule, adding a good scene...

Ian, I'm impressed! I haven't laughed so hard in a while. Very good. Timing was wonderful. My favorite moments were when the Narrator said "...everything bad, communism and more communism," and when Blambo kisses the girl says "Gotta go," and bumps his head going out of the room. Delightful...

On the other hand, Mr. Interesting... I think that Clive's above post and others like it, are a test of your burning need to make films. If you ignore that post, and the good advice it contains, and continue until you've finished your feature, then you pass the test. I agree that every point...

Have eaten six boxes of cornflakes. Have yet to find Sony camera. Will advise.

All of the advice above is good. I find "what you must do to be a filmmaker" (I've been one since I was 14) is make a film. That means, as Stanley Kubrick said, "Get a camera and film and make any kind of film at all." It is very easy to worry about the rules, or if there are rules. Whether...

>Though, of course, bullets don't actually flash when they hit things Of course not, but it's a movie convention now. Funny how that came about, as many cameramen I know are also shooting enthusiasts. "Just trying to add a bit of visual excitement," -- Peter Cook, in Stanley Donen's...

The "dust-filled paintballs" you mention are loads for what's called a "Sweeney gun." You can get the dust in any color, white, black, red, etc., to match whatever is supposed to have been struck by a bullet. In Hollywood, you can contact special effects companies, such as Roger George...

8mm film and processing can still be found at Chambless of Georgia. http://snurl.com/g48y Here's an 8mm resource sheet. http://snurl.com/g48v Working Bolex for $91? Good deal. You can do just about anything, if you have a machine shop and some money, but I think adding a lens turret to your...

If I were looking for a nice 16mm camera, and would be shooting silent, for post-sync sound, I'd look on eBay first. http://snurl.com/g46j One of the later Bolexes has the control features for serious photography. http://snurl.com/g471 An Arri (S, SR, or M) http://snurl.com/g475 or Eclair...

Oh, birdy, I'm so sorry to hear of these terrible events, but I'm glad your sister's all right. The sad old world is in my prayers today.

I have shot a lot of video and HD. Also 35mm and 65mm. I understand your points, but I don't believe in quibbling about cost. If you treat filmmaking as a business, the cost of stock is cheap. For that "cheap" video cost, you get a video. For that "expensive" film cost, you get a...

Your "boxing" metaphor is a good one. It's natural for others to tell you what you "should" be doing in life. Natural - like athelete's foot! Decide what you want to be, and be that. Find somebody who you want to be like, and invoke their example as an example of why you can do it...

I'm more of a for-profit guy, so bear that in mind. However... I have a non-profit. It took about a year of filling out forms with essay questions, and mailing them in. Just like taking a correspondence course. The year would have gone by anyway, so I'm not out any time. An attorney would...

Good luck to you.

Thanks for the welcome Filmy, and Zen, my kiwi friend. Sooo much nicer, already. How you guys?

What kind of script is it? How long? What genre?

I can recommend Hollywood Seminars, they have events in N CA and other places every so often, and web seminars, where you can participate from home, pretty nice. http://hollywoodseminars.com