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In your original question you left out what would be my first and second choices. Edius is the fastest editing program going- fastest here meaning the one that never needs to render. It is insanely stable. I've had one crash in 2 solid years of use. The colour correction tools are brilliant...

What I do when I want a bar for a set is first approach the bar wanting to hire it as the location of my wrap party. They don't charge a fee but rather have a minimum spend you've got to put down on drinks on the night. Film types tend to be thirsty sorts so I've never had any trouble hitting...

Ha, I haven't seen that movie since it first came out. Got to side with Ebert on this one, very derivative and the forced pop culture references are awkward as hell and really date this as one of those post Pulp Fiction Tarantino rip offs that we were overrun with in the late 90s. But as to...

I once did a crowd funding for a low 5k amount. Obviously I can work to save 5k but the issue was I was already working overtime, saving every cent for the rest of the productions costs which was a higher figure. I don't recommend crowd funding for low amounts. it's reallly more trouble than...

Fight scenes are super tough on a budget. Sound will make a huge difference. A weakly thrown punch can suddenly start looking pretty good with decent sound effects behind it. You need to have more dramatic choreography. Your characters often look like they are just clawing ineffectually at...

If you give actors a copy of your film you'll very quickly find that everyone they know will have a copy as well. In my experience actors copy them and distribute them really fast. Tell the actors that if they want you'd be happy to give them a scene or two for showreel purposes but otherwise...

I'm not sure the canon is looking like great value for video. The black magic pocket camera is gertting released in July and looks twice the camera (as far as video goes) at a third or so of the cost. If you're after something DSLR style how about the Panasonic GH2? Much cheaper than the...

EDIT:: BLARGHHHHHH! See this is already well covered above. Was commenting after reading a couple pages not realising there were more to come.

Tricky! I actually think that locations are the main thing that seperates the Hollywood types from us enthusiastic amatuers. After all these days we're often using the same gear as them but we can't afford a studio to build sets to realise our exact vision. Poor sets can ruin a film on their...

Hey a huge percentage number of our favorite directors would agree with me. Alfred Hitchcock is famous for his attitude that after preproduction it was just a slog. He'd already made the movie in his head and production was just the factory putting the parts together. Of course he still...

It's a lonely business being the director. Cast and crew are only with you for a little while and then they're off on other projects that excite them as much as yours did while your stuck in front of a computer for the next year with the no-doubt-flawed footage that you made together. It...

I haven't bought the new motion yet so take this with the proverbial grain of salt but I think what you're doing is the only way. Apple cut all ties with the old software when they introduced FCX. So no round tripping or any of that good stuff we got used to. Just export your compositions as...

The difference here is greater than saying these directors just walk in with "mental shot lists" that they haven't written down. I think what they are saying is they don't prepare shot list because they want to be open to ideas on the day and be dynamic in the way they can work with the...

I've done it. Not intentionally but we had a location on a farm in the country that was available for only one night. So we were shooting in the middle of winter, in the mud, on a pitch black night with rain bucketing down on us. More than a little wind about too- which looked great on...

Getting back to the original quesion of organisation though, here's how I do it. I import all the footage and stick it into bins by day. And for organisation that's it. I find that organising everything strictly by day is a natural way to do it because I have a good memory for the days so to...

Different strokes for different folks I guess but two hours on a cut definitely sounds like some serious perfectionism. I'm probably more careless than I should be but if I'm editing all day I want to get 10 minutes done. Editing my last feature I had a scene where continuity was a nightmare...

I thought it was a cracker. Well done mate. Entertaining, funny, all made sense, the ending would seem to be the universe not exisisting because Hank destroyed the diary. Corker of a script. Now don't fuck it up.

Read it cover to cover and enjoyed it. I like the structure where pretty much every second scene is a cut away to seemingly unrelated nasty things going on. Then it all ties together nicely too. I think you do have a serious issue here with the dialogue. Your characters are intentionally...

I've only read to page 12- don't take any offence at that. it's late and I'm off to bed in a minute. Definitely looks more pro than I was expecting. The dialogue is actually pretty good but there's too much of it. Often it's running on for too long to emphasise a joke or a moment that's...

Liked it. I'd agree with the porevious posters that visually it's a little hard to take. I hate shakey cam to start with but combine it with that claustrophic 3 camera angle feel you've got there and it becomes a bit of a slog. I think the dialogues very well written. There's some repitition...